[janoskiss (Steve H)]

Bite the bullet, burst a few brain cells and do a course in general relativity. (the benefit of the connections you'll build between your remaining 10+ billion braincells will far outweigh the loss of the few burst braincells... hehe) Otherwise stop asking silly questions like "what was before the big bang?" and "what is outside the universe?" and "what's inside a non-existent empty box?" and so on ...



PS. an appreciation of all the physics and mathematics in the world will not help answer the big questions but will help stop people asking the wrong questions. Just my <2cents worth to anyone who really wants to know how it all might work... Hope no one takes nothing personally. Especially cos nothing can't exist.