[TrevorW]

I neither have a preference for 1 or 2 in fact I prefer the number 0 but some may contest that the number 0 is not in fact a number as it is non dimensional.

Cosmologists and theorists on the other hand would say that 0 is important as the cosmos formed from nothing and that 1 and 2 came after 0 and 0 therefore is fundamental to the space time continumn.