What came before the Big Bang?

[Captain Obvious]

Two and a Half Men.

The only sitcom I could watch, it was actually funny.

Pre Ashton Kutcher that is.

[del]

the little foreplay

[Mister D]

The only way to settle this will be to confirm or refute the findings with better data. As luck would have it, new data is forthcoming thanks to the Planck spacecraft that is currently peering into the cosmic microwave background with more resolution and greater sensitivity than ever.

Cosmologists should have a decent data set to play with in a couple of years or so. When they get it, these circles should either spring into clear view or disappear into noise (rather like the mysterious Mars face that appeared in pictures of the red planet taken by Viking 1 and then disappeared in the higher resolution shots from the Mars Global Surveyor).
Planck should settle the matter; or, with any luck, introduce an even better mystery. In the meantime, there’s going to be some fascinating discussion about this data and what it implies about the nature of the universe. We’ll be watching.

The above is from NGC's article. I was curious so I looked this Planck data up. The data has been available for about two years and it should be admitted that the Planck data has more or less settled the matter as least as far the rather extravagant claims made in 2010 are concerned. There remains no evidence for multiverses but the data in question does not exactly disprove their existence. Then again, that was sort of my point. It's not falsifiable and therefore not scientific.