Where was God during creation?

I have been considering where God was during the creation of reality. I think what is commonly pictured is that God was in the garden, or at least the place where it would be, during the process; but given that the shape of reality changed dramatically, especially during the first few days, and that Genesis 1:2 says "Now the earth was formless and empty", if the garden is on earth, or would be once created, that could not be where God was when creating everything, as then that space (earth) would not be empty. (I acknowledge there might be some complexity here as the garden may have been "transplanted" onto earth from the place where God was, but I don't think that's what most Christians have in mind when picturing this anyway. Primarily I just realized my own mental image was incorrect of where God was).

I recently heard about the Boolean Expanse (I may have heard about it before, but it more recently registered in my consciousness), and the sheer vastness of it started sinking in. It is 165 million light years in radius. The farthest object visible from earth to the naked eye is, by most accounts, the Andromeda galaxy at 2.25 million light years away. This means that if earth were in the middle of this void, we would likely see nothing. I'm a sci fi fan, and warp speed is considered to be very fast, much faster than we can currently travel, and I always thought of it as reducing travel times to effectively inconsequential. Looking up the specifics though, if the Enterprise were going warp 9 through this void it would take nearly 109,000 years to cross it, and at about 1,500 years in you would hit the distance between earth and the Andromeda Galaxy, meaning you would likely see nothing but darkness for over 90,000 years. Fathoming the breadth of this is mind boggling, but such separation does present an interesting possibility for where God was during creation.

So what if God was in a void like this one? God could have been speaking things into existence remotely and then waiting until they could be seen locally to consider them good and real, in order to then proceed. I have brought up before that omniscience is a very hard thing to shake, which is to say it makes it very difficult to create anything with externally valid meaning if you are completely aware of the threads that have led to what you are presently observing (even perhaps if you had not created those threads). I could see there being advantage then to creating or occupying what we would consider such a large distance of empty space so that such observation might be delayed, even if only for a short time. How time proceeds now is likely different than how it proceeded at the point I'm discussing (this point couldn't even be recreated by today's standards, and would still likely only be one piece of the puzzle of explaining that day from an outside perspective, as there may have only been one perspective to judge time's passing, and I imagine observation effects like we see in quantum mechanics would likely be macro effects from this point of view) but if this assumption were true, then light would need to travel from where it had been separated out from darkness to the point where God was, during the first day. If God possessed the ability to observe things like light much faster than the actual speed of light, but not actually at infinite speed, I could see this effect being lined up just right for these events to occur as stated. As I mentioned in another post, from God's perspective of creation by speaking, this may have been quite simple, but the mechanics (The Word) of how everything lined up could be far more complicated, from a remote perspective (such as making sure the universe was just the right size and shape such that light reached God's perception at the marking of the first day).

So I could see this process continuing piece by piece, like an envisioning of what is being made in God's location, and then a process that was just delayed enough to establish an externally meaningful arrow of time by having each thing observed but not immediately so, instead just reaching God's location/field of view during or at the marking point of each day. It would not be until sometime later (I'm recalling God walking through the garden at the fall of man, and also considering the title change between God and The Lord God between Genesis 1 and 2 as possible clues here), that God would be in direct interaction with earth and man. 

I find this to be an interesting perspective, and one that could manage the seemingly insurmountable task of muting, ever so slightly, the condition of omniscience, which would be necessary for external meaning to bloom, which I believe is the point of this timeline. I would not say definitively that this is what happened, but I could see this being a possibility. I am also picturing a convergent logical structure, one where multiple versions of our current "scenarios" (how we view reality) might be required in order to piece together these starting conditions, with specific factors of individual scenarios combining in some cases and reconciling out in others; yet each factor would still need to be included separately in order for all the pieces to fit, even if some factors do not exist in the final (initial) scenario.