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The question "what existed before the Big Bang" breaks physics at a grammatical level. "Before" requires time. Time didn't exist yet. Stephen Hawking's answer was the cleanest: asking what came before the Big Bang is like asking what's north of the North Pole. The question itself is malformed. Time...

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