Now imagine that when we look out into the universe, that we are seeing fractal planes reflecting our apparent galaxy back at us from multiple time pages in the past.  this would generate the image we have of a vasly aged universe.

now understand that the act of creation induced the SPACE TIME Pendulum which induces TIME itself while inducing an expanding spherical surface of creation at which SPACE TIME Pendulums are created and identified as neutrinos.  This creation surface is sublight and this surface mirrors decay radiation inward and we identify that as the microwave background.

Near rest neutrinos coalese to form all known particles but ultimately produce neutron pairs which effectively flood our universe.  This is DARK MATTER from which all the visible matter has been produced.  You actually know the rest of this story.

We know of neutrinos coming from decay at the center of the Sun and they travel at near light speed.  We cannot detect a slow neutrino.

The remaining problem is just how fast this surface of creation is traveling and exactly how long has it been going on.  The BIG BANG argues that it is fast ,but that may be an artifact of image reflection millions of times from our perspective.

The sphere is surely greater than the size of our galaxy but plausibly not much larger.  a star would need to be doing 1000 km per second to leave our galaxy and it is plausible that is the actual surface velocity or thereabouts.  this means it becomes possible to calculate a diferent age for this Universe/galaxy.  I will avoid playing with numbers here however tempting since they cannot be right but can still be misleading.

my takehome though is that we can constrain our thought experiment inside the apparent structure of our galaxy by understanding all other galaxies are simply images of our own.  This model at least makes our universe slightly more measurable and bounded but still huge enough.