What was "here" "before" the "uni"verse ?
Do you ever wonder if there was anything before what we know as "existence". Before the universe (at least this one that we know about), what was "there" ? Or was there a beginning ? Is the concept of an end and a beginning strictly confined to the brains of humans? Some theorize that this universe originated from a single hydrogen atom. Well, if so, where did it come from? It could hold some validity since it only has one proton. But as I type this sentence, I realize that that type of reasoning is also existential of the human mind. We tend to think that things start with one then ascend. One comes before two which is before 3 and so on.
Besides, in order to incorporate hydrogen into a nuclear reaction, extreme gravity is needed. That is why it occurs naturally on the sun. So, being that a body many times the size of Earth is needed to set off a hydrogen nuclear reaction, and this supposedly was caused by atom (the primal atom theory as I call it), what created the gravity ?
To look at it with human reasoning we could say that, assuming this theory of a primal atom is true, the primal atom was promethium or technetium. Reason being that their isotopes aren't stable so they decay over time, like "dead" bodies. Or, again assuming this is true, it may have been an atom of one of the transition metals that populate that latter slots of the periodic table. Since they have a higher proton count.
But, if this is true, what caused this nuclear reaction? What force caused a nuclear reaction so strong that it projected matter for quadrillions of AU's? And where could this matter have come from?
Again, assuming this is true, if we were able to harness that type of energy we would be efficient beyond our wildest dreams, but we may not be able to handle that type of energy. We may not even know how to contain it since, after all, it is theoretical.