How Can Evidence Inform Our Estimation of the Age of the Universe?

"I'm optimistic. I'm quite willing to believe that there was something before the Big Bang, but I don't know it," he says. "The idea the universe began in a hot, dense state, rapidly expanding 13.7 billion years ago with a very low entropy." The best theory of the universe we have right now is for whatever reason,. Eric Fast: If someone chooses to dedicate their life to something uninteresting or even absurd, who am I to stop them?