Kairogenesis
The concept of kairogenesis--creation by time--explains the cause of the initial expansion of space as a function of time itself. That is, the mere passage of time causes the initial condensity to unfold. To the question, "Why does space have three dimensions?" it answers, "At the beginning of the expansion of space, space was zero-dimensional,*1 and over time it increased in dimension," though as far as the theory thus far expressed goes, it is not evident that space's dimensionality would have ever stopped increasing. Accordingly, kairogenetic theory applies the "Copernican principle" not only to the position and magnitude of things in observed space, but to the very dimensionality in which position and magnitude are assigned.
*1 In keeping with what I will call "the Kantian axiomatization" of physics, I do not say that the initial expansion was the absolute beginning of time itself. Prior to t = 0 in this context, it might very well have been that space was, say, 10^10-dimensional, and that some causation in the prior epoch resulted in the initial condensity of our metric. Or, perhaps space oscillates between negative and positive integral dimensionality, and just prior to t = 0, here, space was -1-dimensional. What is important is that the mere passage of time is a specific kind of cause with a specific kind of effect (changes in spatial dimensionality). As will be explained, it is possible to describe the increase in number of points in the spatial metric by reference to the greater number of points in the polytopes of space, as these genetic polytopes become more complex with the passage of initial time.
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I realize the philosophy subforum on a fantasy-book forum is not the best place to peddle my own theory of Big Bang physics, but here goes (I am under time constraints so this will be unfinished for the time being):
And if you feel to expand on your introduction a little more, that would also be great. But if not I will wait for others to post thoughts. And hopefully that will assist me to connect some of these dots. 
