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Forgive my ignorance, but what does it mean for something to exist before the big bang? What happens to time at the boundaries?

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If he means there was a time "before" time, wouldn't we need some metatheoretical notion of time to even state that? Like how can we state that in our system if our time begins at the big bang? I don't get it

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