[Physicist]

You know exactly what people are speaking about, and you know damned good and well that they don't intend to imply that time as we experience it existed before the big fat bang.

As a matter of fact, I don't know what else it could mean. I no more know what they mean by "before the Big Bang" (unless they think that the physical dimension of time stretches infinitely far back) than I know what they'd mean by "south of the South Pole". Perhaps you can explain it to me.

But at any rate, I can tell you from experience that most people do think that time reaches infinitely far back, and are surprised to learn that the dimension curves back upon itself. You may congratulate yourself on knowing better.

[That Subliminal Kid]

I enjoy science, and I read books. The concept of a singularity isn't very hard to comprehend. Most scientists that I've read including Paul Davies, Roger Penrose, and Stephen Hawking, believe something caused the big fat bang. Watching Hawking wax poetic about imaginary time is something to see!