Expert: Ed - 9/7/2011

Question
QUESTION: If the universe has no center or edges and the view of the universe would look the same no matter where you are in the universe, how is it known that the age of the universe is 13.7 billion years?
FOLLOW UP QUESTION: If the light from the most distant galaxy has taken 13.7 billion years to reach us, way wouldn't that galaxy now be much further away?

Answer
Frank,
The most important science for your question has come from the WMAP project.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_age.html

I think the most useful topic for you to learn about is called the "metric expansion of space."  To be perfectly honest, I am not sure I understand this myself.  The basic idea seems to be that more "space" itself comes into existence, as the universe expands, and this means that, effectively, the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space

I hope this gets you started.  I am sorry I can't be more helpful.
-Ed