"Before the Big Band, there was no space or time."
So says what we presume, or at least hope, is a typo. It appears in a curious press release issued by the University of Helsinki. The press release is curious in that it’s not clear why the university decided to write or issue it.
ADDENDA: (1) That press release directs anyone seeking more information to go to the web site of Kari Engqvist. (2) After this item appeared, we heard from Bob O’Hara of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Helsinki. He wrote:
I went to a Christmas party in the physics building in the University of Helsinki last year. As I recall, there was no big band. There was, however karaoke.
Bob
P.S. Perhaps we should forgive Prof. Enqvist. He works in a building called Physicum. I work next door, in a building called Exactum. This means, I think, that they are assumed to work with a certain amount of imprecision.