If you detect gravitational waves or something even before the big bang, it changes our theory. There's an infinite number of alternatives to how the universe began. The universe could have been cyclical, varying throughout space and time. Or it could happen once, or it could happen 472 times. In other words, there's an accountable number of infinite possibilities that the universe could not be a single big bang.

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