athrock, I must have missed the part where you made a compelling case that a singularity is 'nothing' or where you demonstrated that there was 'nothing' "prior" to the Big Bang (leaving aside the improper use of causal language to characterize what a universe "pre" space/time might be like). For that matter, I must have missed the post in which you provided "an entirely new suite of terminology" (to borrow from Esquilax) to describe the physics of a pre-Big Bang world.
Your insistence on using words like "nothing" and "cause" when trying to discuss what, if anything, was 'before' the Big Bang seems to amount to one continuous misapplication of terms that make sense in the world as described by our current models of physics but may not be applicable to what is being discussed. We really don't know. And you're putting the cart before the horse.
Your insistence on using words like "nothing" and "cause" when trying to discuss what, if anything, was 'before' the Big Bang seems to amount to one continuous misapplication of terms that make sense in the world as described by our current models of physics but may not be applicable to what is being discussed. We really don't know. And you're putting the cart before the horse.