Funny that physicists have no concept of before things began. no idea to express the total absence of everything.

Funny that physicists have no concept of before things began, no idea to express the total absence of everything. In the Occult it sometimes is referred to as the void; that place that no mind can venture. That place between lives that even hypnotherapists do not have access to.
If there was nothing then how could anything ever begin, is this the god factor; the spark that began it all?