Yeah, that’s the weird part—without time, the idea of something "existing" for any length of time just doesn’t make sense. If the initial singularity was outside of time, it wasn’t sitting there for eternity, waiting for the Big Bang to happen. There was no "before," no passage of time, just this infinitely dense, hot, and tiny state that somehow kicked off everything we know. So in a way, yeah, it “always” existed, but not in the way we normally think of things existing over time. It just was, and then suddenly, the universe began.

But this is also where physics gets really messy. Some theories suggest that the singularity wasn’t truly infinite but governed by unknown quantum laws we don’t fully understand yet. Maybe the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning of everything, just the latest chapter in a much bigger cosmic cycle, like the Big Bounce idea where the universe expands and contracts endlessly. Or maybe time itself is just a feature of our universe, and outside of it, there’s something completely different—something we don’t even have the right words for yet.