Prescience

That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.

- Consider Phlebas, Iain Banks

Questions

Read somewhere on the inter-tubes -

To ask what happened before the Big Bang is as pointless a question as asking where is the universe or what is outside the universe.

Something to ponder upon.