Okey Dokey..."In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Where was God when he did all this? "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." Didn't the 'waters' come much later? OK so the religious believe in God as the Creator. Secular Humanists believe the Universe just magically appeared out of nothing. What's the difference?
It's easy to find all sorts of BS "science" to answer this question. However, if you look deep into the Flat Earth Theory, you may find you are asking the wrong question to begin with. This is a created realm, complete with a solid dome, artificial celestial bodies, temperature regulation and a Flat surface beneath our feet. This fact changes everything. Since "science" always leaves you full of doubts and skeptical disbelief, maybe you should try Pure Logic and shift your mindset into a much happier, much more fulfilling paradigm of reality.
The Big Bang took place in the center of the cosmic egg at the black hole/white hole interface. The white hole is facing one end of the egg and spews out a stream of universes towards that end. Our universe has reached that end of the egg and is turning to head around the perimeter of the egg. The universe expands as it travels further along. Thus our universe is somewhat kidney shaped as it makes the turn; the forward end of the kidney is a bit larger because it is further along in the expansion process. Each universe will continue in the flow around the perimeter of the egg until it reaches the other end of the egg where it will turn, move away from that end of the egg, and go towards the center of the egg until it enters the black hole side of the central black hole/white hole interface. The guy who figured this out based it on detection of the voltage gradients of a chicken egg, about 2.4 millivolts, end-to-end and across the middle. The electrical energy sets up organizing fields that are also present in seeds; tadpoles in their eggs develop their spinal alignment along the same linear end-to-end voltage axis. Due credit goes to Itzhak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum, @ 1977 & 1988.
That "something" was my invisible pet vulture, Spot. Sorry. I've already taken away his omnipotence as punishment. In answer to the OP's question: according to physicist Victor Stenger, the Big Bang was the beginning of the part of the universe with which we're familiar, and nobody knows anything about what happened before the Big Bang, assuming that the phrase "before the Big Bang" makes any sense.
Planck's quanta answers that by positing that all things move in a series of infinitesmial steps, far, far too small for us to see but still there anyway. The fascinating thing about that is that this means that true teleportation not only exists but is the way all motion is accomplished, for things move across the extremely tiny spaces separating quanta without ever occupying the space in between, yes? I wonder, what if you could actually separate quanta by macroscopic distances....?
