Video snippet (low res) from 'BBC Horizon', 'What happened before the Big Bang?'. Dr. Neil Turok -1958- is the director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. In this video snippet you'll hear him say, "There are essentially two possibilities at the beginning. Either time did not exist before the beginning. Somehow time sprang into existence. That's a notion which we have no grasp off, and which may be a logical contradiction. The other possibility is that this event which initiated our universe was a violent event in a pre-existing universe." And he goes on explaining the possibilities of the existence of branes.
Turok clearly ascribes a major role to logics, which makes it at least a strange omission he doesn't consider further the premise of the non existence of time. Would he have done so, a complete range of other possibilities would have crossed his mind. Interested? page back à