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> Every year or so we hear about new studies that double or halve the age of the universe.

Not any reputable ones. The consensus on the estimated age of the universe has shifted only slightly in the last several decades.

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There's no way that it hasn't existed for infinity, for the value where universe = literally everything. It can't come from nothing, so it has always existed. I am obviously not aware of the formal definition of universe, considering there are theories of our universe being one of many bubbling in the cosmic foam.

Whereas I really like the idea that infinities cannot exist, so for any definition of the universe, it must have had a start somewhere/when.

Why can't they exist? That's an arbitrary and unnecessary constraint.

How could it start from absolutely nothing?




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