Yeah that’s what I was getting at, all we can do is guess. It’s pretty easy to realise it’s impossible to answer scientifically, anything that could have any impact on our universe must necessarily be part of it and so cannot tell us anything about what came before.
None of that actually answers the question because it’s a philosophical one and not scientific. This really irritates the scientific mind.
Yeah that’s what I was getting at, all we can do is guess. It’s pretty easy to realise it’s impossible to answer scientifically, anything that could have any impact on our universe must necessarily be part of it and so cannot tell us anything about what came before.