No, I Really Don't Understand This Either

Though I kind of get the "walking past the Earth's poles" analogy.  Stephen Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson discuss the time before time over at Popular Science.
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Well, at least the illustration is pretty cool.  Don't stare at it too long though.  You might fall in, and then who knows where you'd come back out.