True, but once you exceed the assumed (or inferred) age of the universe (by many many times) it becomes meaningless does it not?
From that perspective, the obvious answer is "yes."
However, I've never seen anything to convince me that there is a finite age for the universe. That is to say, I would submit that has always been here...
From the human perspective, though, it's easy to become fixated on a "beginning" and "end," because we're used to watching the beginnings of life (childbirth), death, creation and destruction of things... But the matter doesn't get created or destroyed, only changed in it's basic form...
Obviously, this is a philosophical question- and one which (admittedly) I'm not as well-prepared for. After all, I've always avoided philosophy classes like they were a plague!
But from a scientific perspective, we've yet to see any evidence that there was ever a ***beginning*** to the universe...
Your thoughts?