Franklin's rod was considered the cause of that earthquake?

The mechanism proposed by Krauss is not truly something from nothing. It will always be the question where the first thing comes from.

Is your space purely Kantian?

Is immaterial space a space without matter?

Same with climate change, incidentally. Evidently once-in-a-generation storms, floods, wildfires, droughts, and temperatures isn’t quite “rock bottom” enough — Xtrix

An astute observation. I think a lot worse thinks have to happen before (wo)mankind realizes a wrong road has been taken.

The first uncaused cause was immaterial space. — val p miranda

What is immaterial space?