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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What is wrong with the question "What existed before the Big Bang?" I have been told that this question doesn't make sense, but I have NEVER heard a decent layman's explanation as to why.

Thanks to those who attempted to answer my actual question (which was about the question itself and not a request for multiverse theory explanations, religious proclamations, etc).
gpt
It's unanswerable.  That's what is wrong with it.  It appears that time itself began with the Big Bang and so asking what happened before the Big Bang is like asking, "What is north of the north pole?"