Is it called pillory response? Kinda neat how we lost our hair but kept the fine muscles to bristle the hair to make us look bigger and protect us through a show of implied dominance. What other vestigial traits does the human animal have? Fascinating.

Tax evasion

You need two fixed points separate from each other in order to measure time. Since all things existed in the same location before the mass/energy erupted away from this fixed single point, time was irrelevant.

Time itself is not a construct but the language of mathematics is as we can say "two" or "dos" and mean the same thing. Aliens for instance on another planet could use math just fine to measure things but the would have different language to explain it. Maybe the communicate in with smell and produce specific smells to indicate math language.

The actual energy/mass that shot out from the big bang event. We don't know the actual formation of that stuff but maybe it has always existed in some form until it all collected into one point with the entire mass of the universe existing in a small point. The mass flowered into the universe in a "big bang" a quaint term for the sheer amount of power released into, everywhere all at once.

Quantum Fields can just exist on their own and create interesting interactions. Look them up if you want, really neat stuff. It's an interesting phenomena that can create energy by itself I think.

Simple, he came back as a ghost or zombie or some bullshit. We are talking about a King novel after all.

Well, he was most likely a farmer murdered for not being protestant.

The coins themselves could be a "bid" to gain power. Local powers would mint coins in an effort to produce power. More scholarly work needs doing methinks.