Eli5 How did people figure out how old the universe is?

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I know it’s definitely very complicated but I’m very curious

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The universe is expanding like a balloon. We used something called red shift to calculate the expanding rate. If we reverse the expanding rate. Aka deflate the balloon we are able to calculate when everything was not inflated at all.

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