what was there before the big bang

could it be another civilisation?

God.

>>2

And ME, I was the god.

Unfortunately i made a mistake and it ended up with a big bang.

"what was there before"... as a matter of fact, its still there

Branes and/or the quantum foam. Pick your theory.

>>4

maybe, but we won't be able to see it because it is way way too far away, this is what i predict.

>>1
theres not only one univere we live in a multiverse
the materia that the black holes are gathering from ours
is coming put in another side as a withe hole helping develop a baby universe as we speak , the same way our reality was created
theres millions of universes with different laws and physics
but they are outside our view range like a fish cant see space or hes universe is only two dimensions up down,left-right

>>7
The dimensional gates of the multiverse are mine to voyage effortlessly beyond!

>>1
There was only God, Chuck Norris, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Just believe that, it'll keep you from afflicting our side of the argument with further stupidity.

>>7
I believe you've either played too many Flash games or have never been underwater, because fish do, in fact, exist in exactly as many dimensions as do humans. To suggest that "hes universe is only two dimensions up down, left-right" is to say that were a shark attacking you, it would be a simple matter to move through the third dimension to escape him....

>>9
back the fuck up!! a THIRD DIMENSION!?!?!?!?

Bulk

>>9
PLOP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw8dcb8iKSM

>>9
YOU ARE MOVING IN THEIR 2 WORLD UNIVERSE

Some mathematical models hold that time itself came into existence with the Big Bang, therefore questions about what came before are meaningless.

Lectroids.  Lectroids from the Fifth Dimension!

>>14
This

Essentially, it was an infinetely dense, infintely hot thing of wibbly-wobbly stuff that one day decided to expand rather rapidly.

>>14
The idea of time not existing is beyond my comprehension, beyond my imagination even.

>>17
PLOP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw8dcb8iKSM

Look up the Big Bounce Theory. Before the Big Bang, there was another Universe that underwent a Big Crunch. Due to quantum effects, we cannot possibly know anything about the previous Universe other than the fact that it was there. Not how old it was, not how big it was, not how massive it was, not if there was another one before it, etc.