What is the age of the Universe?

no it is not known. it's all in your mind. it is as old as you want it to be.

I don't know that there is a theoretical age to the universe, is there? In my opinion, SOMETHING has always been out there, so I suppose it is ageless.

In terms of science, Newton said, energy can neither be created norbe destroyed.If destroyed, it may go into another form of energy.That means never born, never will die.

Allah knows,how can we know

modern science suggests to us the theory of the big bang, demonstrated from the recent observations from spaces them of several telescopes (as hubble) that they send images to us of an universe still in expansion and old of million years, all that far away light years from the dogmas of the several religions…

We know from studies of radioactivity of the Earth and Sun that our solar system probably formed about 4.5 billions years ago, which means that the Universe must be at least twice that old, because before our solar system formed, our Milky Way galaxy had to form, and that probably took several billions years by itself. It would be reasonable to guess that the Universe is at least twice as old as our Sun and Earth. However, we can't do radioactive dating on distant stars and galaxies. The best we can do is balance a lot of different measurements of the brightness and distance of stars and the red shifting of their light to come up with some ballpark figure. The oldest star clusters whose age we can estimate are about 12 to 15 billions years old. So it seems safe to estimate that the age of the Universe is at least 15 billion years old, but probably not more than 20 billion years old. This matter is far from being settled by astrophysicists and cosmologists, so stay tuned. There could be radical new developments in the future. very very cool if i dont say so myself! have a good one!!

Is it relevant? Many scientists promote the big bang theory because we live in an 'expanding ' universe. This is pehaps the 'myopic' view. Perhaps the universe is just breathing; in and out, in and out, in and out. If that were the case determination of its age would be impossible. It is alpha and omega, always has and always will be.