BEFORE THE BIG BANG

At the time of the Big Bang, all the matter in the universe was crunched into an incredibly hot, infinitely dense speck of matter. But what happened before that? What was there before there was anything? A theory known as the "no boundary proposal" has been theorized. The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary. As scientists know now, the universe is constantly expanding. As you move backward in time, then the universe contracts. Go back far enough and the entire universe shrinks to the size of an atom. This subatomic ball of everything is known as the singularity. Inside this extremely small, massively dense speck of heat and energy, the laws of physics and time as we know them cease to function. Put another way time as we understood it literally did not exist before the universe started to expand. Rather, the arrow of time shrinks infinitely as the universe becomes smaller and smaller, never reaching a clear starting point. Before the Big Bang time was bent- It was always reaching closer to nothing but didn't become nothing. Essentially there was never a Big Bang that produced something from nothing. It just seemed that way from mankind's point of perspective. Events before the Big Bang are simply not defined, because there's no way one could measure what happened at them. Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequence one may as well not include them as part of the theory, and say time began at the Big Bang.