Stop asking what came before the Big Bang—before didn’t exist. 13.8B years ago spacetime turned on, and its afterglow hums in 1% of old TV static.

We know it happened because galaxies are racing away, the cosmic microwave background is the 380,000-year afterglow, and the H/He/Li mix matches—yet our math fails at the first instant, so maybe it’s multiverse, a cosmic loop, quantum nothing, or simply that before isn’t real.