What prevents scientists from being able model what was before the Big Bang?
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It reminds me of something my computer science teacher once told me in CS1. You can compress data of any size down to a single bit. The problem is you cannot then decompress it. If all matter in the universe was an infinitely hot infinitely dense point, in theory no information remains for us to find afterward.
We do not even have a theory that explains how we might determine the answer to your question, assuming that time itself did not start with the big bang. However, this is based on our current understanding. It is always possible, perhaps even probable, that more study, technology, and theory will give us new ways of looking at the beginning of the universe.
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