your beginning is some big bang from some condensed singularity[and before that?]

There is no "before that". Time started with the Big Bang. It's an integral dimension of the universe (spacetime, innit) and any "concept" of time outside that context is nonsensical.
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Yes, but this is a circular argument: it is that very 'nonsecality' that is problematical. A 'begging of the question' in the correct, or original, sense; whereby the answer to the question is taken to be subsumed in the question itself.

I refer yet again to my old thread, "What went Big Bang?", which ran for a whole year Sep09-Sep10, and to many of the posts therein.

~M~