What the pineapple am I?

To say "before" that is tricky because "before" implies there was time to go by, when there wasn't. "5 meters before the start line", in a sense. But if you could conceptualize a "negative" time (pre big bang), it would be a universe rapidly collapsing under it's own force of some sort(like gravity), condensing everything into nothing (picture forcing the sides of the box together so hard they fall apart), then it begins expanding (they bounce around your walls and fall back into place).

Not necessarily? My "Beliefs" acknowledge that as a possibility but not absolute... we or rather the scientist whom created the "big bang" theory have "in a sense" concluded that the "concept" of time did not exist pre-Bang (moving forward or backwards), however this is not absolute... WHAT the big bang was is still more or less a mystery (random particle fluctuation, massive explosion, etc...) but the "when" of the Big bang has been thought of to be the existence/origin of time (or at least our concept) to "un-complicate" the theory but there's nothing to back that up.

i mean for the concept of the big bang theory to even exist there had to be some "space" for the "Bang" to occur in... meaning some form of time had to have existed pre-bang, even if it was a split mille-second, but some form of space or Dimensional area HAS to have existed (considering you can't "create" space... as far as i know). Meaning time had to have existed pre-bang, hell in theory the big bang may have not been the start in time at all... merely a mark in it.