Gah! my head is going to explode trying thing about this "nothing". I just cant do it. for nothing to not even be an abscence of anything then it sugests that it is something... and the idea of no time, well my mind boggles at it.
surely time would exist in er... nothing(probably not by our standareds tho). its like the old saying "if a tree falls in a forrest and no1s around to hear it, does it still make a sound?" of course it does. time must still exist even when there appears to be nothing else around surely for time isnt really anything tangible.
oh, i dont know...
anyhow, thanks for answering the unanswerable

as no one was around when it all occured I guess most of the study in this is guess work anyhow
ps, thanks for keeping it dumbed down too. too much lingo I my head
would have exploded