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To quote Aristotle, "The natural way of [studying physics] is to start from the things which are more knowable and clear to us and proceed towards those which are more knowable by nature; for the same things are not knowable relatively to us and knowable without qualification." So we start from...

You could have it be a form of amnesia where the protagonist permanently forgets the past 20 years without any sort of time travel. Of course that probably isn't plausible from a psychological perspective given that most people aren't going to have any recollection of what they were doing...

Given any difference is due to the Earth accelerating towards the object, wouldn't both objects still hit the ground at exactly the same time (if dropped side by side) because the Earth's acceleration would be towards both objects, not just the heavier one?

Welp, time to try again then :P

For number 3: With 1000 (or any even number) sect members, start with the person one place on from yourself (ie. if members numbered 1-1000 clockwise starting with you as #1, then have #2 die first). This will kill all even numbered members until reaching #1000, at which point it loops back...

If there was no time before the big bang then how did it happen and how could time be created if there was was nothing to make it?