time before the big bang?

ladies and gents,
interesting article which suggests there was time before the big bang.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7440217.stm

So.....less a big bang and more a big squirt, if they are right, where is the parent Universe. it's all very perplexing.....and as for the accepted view of time?? aaaahhhhhhh. In the words of Homer Simson "every time i learn something new - it pushes the old stuff out of my head"

Declan

From the article:

Professor Sean Carroll explained that "a universe could form inside this room and we’d never know".

Poet William Blake could have told them that:

"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."

Homer Simson "every time i learn something new - it pushes the old stuff out of my head"

"You never know what is enough unless you know more than enough
and you never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." ..William Blake

"time" is a manmade concept. So before it was thought up...............it couldnt have existed.

"time" is a manmade concept

Who holds the patent or the copyright I wonder?

(I can never make time myself.)