It feels as if there's a force (?) that we're not yet recognizing. Else, it's a crazy infinite loop. Not that I'm saying this is true (just an example), but is

It feels as if there's a force (?) that we're not yet recognizing. Else, it's a crazy infinite loop. Not that I'm saying this is true (just an example), but is the Big Bang simply (?) the introduction of time into the then time-less universe? It just doesn't make sense to say "The universe started with the Big Bang" when what that was prior was the universe but in a different form (or so we guess). So it seems that something else had to be introduced to change the nature of the old universe into the new universe. Else the "start" is more like a "transformation" and even that opens a ton of questions. My head hurts.