Physicists - what do they know?
For years ordinary people have been going up to them and asking what happened before the big bang; only to be sneered at derisively for asking a 'meaningless question'.
Then, a couple of years ago, I turn on the telly to learn that physicists have come up with an intriguing question, one that could shake the funadamental principles governing the universe, a question that only recently they've had the courage to ask - what happened before the big bang?
Finally, they're catching up with the rest of us!