"What came before the Big Bang?" is as meaningless as asking "What is North of the North Pole?"
asking "What came _before_ the Big Bang?" could just be taken to mean "What, if anything, is outside our universe?"? You may not be able to go north at the north pole, but you can go up...
also, it is not just 'idle conjecture' to try to find out as much as is possible about our universe, it is natural curiosity to try to find out how everything works... we will never see the inside of a black hole, but people are still prepared to work for a life time to work out what happens inside one
well, if they say that having experienced something yourself causes the mirror cells to fire when you see someone else perform that action, perhaps it works the other way round?
if you see someone do something enough times then when you come to do it for the first time it seems familiar because the same mirror cells are firing
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"What came before the Big Bang?" is as meaningless as asking "What is North of the North Pole?"
asking "What came _before_ the Big Bang?" could just be taken to mean "What, if anything, is outside our universe?"? You may not be able to go north at the north pole, but you can go up...
also, it is not just 'idle conjecture' to try to find out as much as is possible about our universe, it is natural curiosity to try to find out how everything works... we will never see the inside of a black hole, but people are still prepared to work for a life time to work out what happens inside one
well, if they say that having experienced something yourself causes the mirror cells to fire when you see someone else perform that action, perhaps it works the other way round? if you see someone do something enough times then when you come to do it for the first time it seems familiar because the same mirror cells are firing