Hi you SOULS (!!!),
this is truely my first computercontact with life out there!

Since this is EVERYbody's universe , you should insist upon that it may be explaint to you in terms that you understand. And to quote Einstein for a second time (in this thread), he marveled alout about the "strangeness", that the universe makes itself understood to us (or be it at least to a astounding degree). It is sofor a lamentabel thing, that the questions of interest to the professional sientific comunity are often of such an arcane nature as to preclude all interested lay bystanders from any meaningfull participation.
Questions as to the absolut definitif meanig concerning the overall age of the universe or the validety of the time concept "at the beginning of time" in the context of an inflationary expanding space under considerration of ... blabla can only bedoudle the inocent. Ok, if you have had a very confined (say) christian upbringing, you may want to expose yourself to a good helping of strangeness, to shatter a certain narrowness of mind. And you can get it from cosmology , astrophysics etc.....But if you look for a sense of understanding , you should stick to concepts, that are inate to our (very ,very highly developed) commun sense. The traditional feel of space and time (without even special relativety) carries one a good far. One is very ill advised indeed, if one lays to great a weight on the validity of the most reecent findings in pondering the nature of nature...
To me personaly, the most significant thing about the universe is ...............that it is r e a l l y, r e a l l y B I G and old!
Hey it is not far in the past, that the world was 6000 plus years old and very, very single. So we have come far eaven with a trivial perspective to the thousend upon thousend wonders in the celestial spheres. Also can we with great calm wait for the last riddels to be unriddeled and be straightend out befor our eyes of a once hopefully eaven more enlightened human race... ^ ^ ...
(plesase don't take offence to the twisted style of a foreigner. good day)