The problem is, existing theory is not up to the task. The analogy is if we were still at the flat earth theory, we could disprove the idea of anything orbiting the earth. An obsolete dogma can lock your brain out of further and evolving insight.
My theory is we live in space-time, and what we call the beginning of the universe is when space-time first appears, and the universes expands in space and time; space-time. The logical question to ask is, what would happen if space and time were not connected as space-time, but rather space and time could act independently of each other? If I could move in space without any connection to time, I would appear omnipresent. This is a classic attribute of God. Space-time, does not allow this but rather places temporal limits of position in space and time.
If space and time were not connected, we could not have photons of light, since photons have wavelength; d, and frequency;1/t, that are bond together; connected like space-time. Instead we would have wavelength not attached to frequency and frequency not attached to wavelength. These will not be easy to see with current tools that assume connected space and time variables; photons.
If we were in a realm where space and time were not connected, since there are more options compared to the limits imyoised by space-time; omnipresent, this realm would be a state of infinite complexity. Since entropy is connected to increasing complexity, this other realm should be the source of the 2nd law. Our space-time universe is like an ice cube in a warm bath, working it way back to its source; toward infinite entropy within separated space and time.
This theory allows one to do what no other theory can do. I can start the universe before energy, using what would be measured as nothingness within space-time. I do not need to assume the universe was always here, due to weak theory. All I need to do is extrapolate connected space-time, to the original disconnected space-time; time + space.
In terms of applications, if we have a synchronized pair of quantum particles, separated in space, that move as one, independent of distance, we would have the addition of some independent time added to space-time. In their little world, they have their own little clock, that is on top of their space-time clock. Independent space and time makes it easier to address the quantum world, since the quantum world is the half way house to the other realm, where time and space are not connected. Quantum affect often shows both realms interacting.
The inflation period where the early universe appeared to expand faster than the speed of light, would simply be a variation of omnipresence; extra distance potential added to universal space-time, apart from the distance within space-time. The laws of physics being the same in all references; Einstein, is an omniscience affect, where there is extra time potential added to space-time; synchronized in time independent of frame of reference in space-time.
Proof of independent space and time can be seen via the human imagination; connected to consciousness and information. The frontal lobe can process neural data in ways where the output is outside of the laws of space-time; science fiction. For example, I can imagine a wet spaghetti bridge a mile long. This is not possible in space-time due to gravity and shear force. But, if I built this in space, independent of time; stop time, so the force of gravity can not act without time, the bridge could remain.