[Condorman]

Let's go to the very nanosecond after the "big bang"... what was there before that nanosecond?

As Physicist says so much better than I, "The same thing that is south of the South Pole."

[PatrickHenry]

As Physicist says so much better than I, "The same thing that is south of the South Pole."

Let's keep this our little secret, but I still consider this ["before the BB"] to be a very open question. As a practical matter (whatever that may mean in this context) Physicist's answer is quite sufficient. But at some level, which is probably more psychological than cosmological, it fails to satisfy.