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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Not really. As far as we know information can't travel faster than light speed, and the oldest/farthest stuff we can see is 14 billion years old / 14b light years away. That gives us the radius and age of the observable universe.

By our current understanding of how the universe works we can't see anything further or older than that (and will never be able to), so any assumption about things outside/before the observable universe is completely baseless