Reply #32: Thanks for posting this question

[ewagner]

Since I'm not a physics major (or even a philosophy major) I can't speak with great authority here; only as an amateur who has read as much as he could absorb on the topic.

With all the competing theories and beyond the assumption that the only thing that could exist before the BB was God, I have come up with my perfect cop-out position. Physics as we know it did not exist before the BB. It is a by-product of the BB. What existed before the BB is something beyond our current knowledge just as some the arguments in String Theory allow for as many as 11 different dimensions which are also far beyond our current knowledge. (knowledge? Hell, try our comprehension.) It may sound crazy to you but it's the best way I can intellectually deal with the inconsistencies of competing theories. Have fun with it!