It's simple; anyone who asks this question is unenlightened...to a degree.
The most plausibly logical yet profoundly simple answer to that god damn silly question is this, "Matter." It's MATTER, folks, that was there before the big bang. But was it different? No. It's the same fucking matter that makes up this constantly changing universe we find ourselves in. What was at all different about it? Well, certainly not the MAKEUP of it; all of the things in matter now and in the future have always been there, but in different forms and distributions. You see, all that was remotely different about MATTER before the Big Bang was the distribution of matter. But it was so differently distributed from the Universe that we, ironically enough, just barely understand the limits of, that it is absolutely incomprehensible to the human mind.
Now, not all people who may feel the incessant need to ponder this (IMO) stupid fucking question are simply unenlightened, regardless of the degree of non-enlightenment. Indeed, some are actually trying to start comprehending whatever our feeble (and laughably over-confident) intellect can understand when it comes to the Universe. Yet the majority of those who would ask this tiring paradox have no real interest in whatever there was before the Big Bang. Creationist cretins, god fearing mind-slaves, reality-haters, skeptics of science, and other scientifically ignorant mindsets would be the typical ones to ask this god damn question. To them, you'd answer this same, "Matter." No further explanation is really necessary.
For those of you who have actually used your cognitive thinking abilities to a respectable extent, you already know that nothing that we know of in the Universe was created from nothing.The stars, the sun, the planets, the moon, the comets & asteroids, the things writhing around on the rare planets and moons; they are all from the same matter that has always made up the universe and the unknown space before the Big Bang. Yet a Creationist Cretin, for instance, would perpetually assert that, because of his/her or their ignorance, there was nothing before the Big Bang so essentially their argument becomes: Nothing created Something. This is from the same group of fuckwits who have tirelessly used the rebuked argument, "Nothing can't make nothing." Do they purposely put themselves in the 'self-humiliation' limelight with this circle argument shit or what?
Regardless, the essential moral of this story is, that matter is EVERYTHING. Yet we can't even imagine what it was really like before the Big Bang. Hence why that question is so easily capable of stumping even the greatest scientific minds in our species. Not only that, but we barely have a toe to stand on when it comes to the scope of our presently ever-changing universe, so how could we begin to comprehend the pre-Big Bang time? After all, each and every smallest bit of time that passes by as I write this, the Universe and the matter that makes up the universe has been further distributed whatever way it has been before each and every second that passes by.
What a fucking annoying, yet thought provoking question.
