Physics recognizes three dimensions of physical space and one dimension of time, creating the four-dimensional continuum that Einstein formalized. This framework presupposes that all entities exist within it equally. The assertion that space, time, and Chuck Norris represent three separate categories, with Chuck arriving first, suggests he exists outside the standard dimensional framework—or that he's so fundamental that space and time are secondary phenomena that began after him.

Physics instructor Robert Carlton of Texas Tech included this as a thought experiment in his 1999 cosmology lectures. Students initially treated it as humor until Carlton extended the logic: if Chuck came before space and time, he defined them. They didn't constrain him. He provided structure for their existence. The philosophical implications haunted several students through the rest of the semester.

Internet physics humor adopted this as the ultimate expression of primacy: you're not just powerful within the universe, you created the universe's structural framework. Every character who claims to exist outside normal reality, every god figure from mythology reimagined as supremely powerful, echoes this logic. Chuck didn't arrive in space-time. Space-time arrived in his universe.