jackie jobates there was something there...

yes, but it wasn't spatial, and it follows there was no time. it was pure energy. this is where Einstein led us, but even he didn't want to believe it -- he introduced a cosmic fudge factor... the "greatest blunder" of his scientific career.

In the very beginning, there was a void, a curious form of vacuum,
a nothingness containing no space, no time, no matter, no light, no
sound. Yet the laws of nature were in place and this curious
vacuum held potential. A story logically begins at the beginning,
but this story is about the universe and unfortunately there are no
data for the very beginnings--none, zero. We don't know anything
about the universe until it reaches the mature age of a billion of a
trillionth of a second. That is, some very short time after creation in
the big bang. When you read or hear anything about the birth of
the universe, someone is making it up--we are in the realm of
philosophy. Only God knows what happened at the very
beginning.

- Leon Lederman, Nobel Prize winning physicist