(August 23, 2011 at 6:41 am)Godnose Wrote: I feel the urge to expand - can't help it. OK ... According to my understanding time (and space) starts at the Big Bang, so actually there is no such thing as "before" the Big Bang, because "before" implies a passage of time and, as I said, time started AT the Big Bang. The answer I was hoping for of course was "Nothing" or "The Void". Then I'd be able to say "Nope", because there weren't even any concepts then - in fact there wasn't even any "then". So that's yet another kind of zero.
You can't possibly know that there was no "before" the big bang. Just because the way we perceive our time doesn't mean that there wasn't some equivalent or some kind of different time before that that.
I am not necessarily disagreeing with you, but it seems like you are claiming to know that this is so. Which makes you no better than the religious creeps who claim to know God's personality.
Cunt