Oy vie! THEY ARE 1 in the same!!! We see 13.8 billion years because we are looking BACK THROUGH TIME.
The universe is 14 billon years old as measured from the time-space coordinates of the earth; that is, as measured from our view, our location, within the universe. But there is an aspect of the universe that changes the perception of the timing of events when those events are viewed, not “on location,” but from afar, across a great galactic distance. That is the stretching of space.
One should also consider the vast difference in speed from the explosive moment of יהי אור 'Let there be Light' and the drastically slower speed which we are currently traveling;
In conjunction with this Time Oriented anomaly is the fact that everything is eminating from an inner hub expanding unto an Outward direction, now tack on Einstein's theory of an arrow travelling straight through space, and how it would eventually come full circle;
The flight of that theoretical arrow represents our amplified line of sight, and though we are traveling outward our view is linear in whatsoever direction one chooses to view;
If one attempts to track time laterally the appearance of time will be distorted in proportion to the lateral degree which one is viewing, thus one must look directly in line to where the explosive יהי אור 'Let there be Light' took place;
When the Hubble was able to locate and view the moments immediately proceeding the explosive event, it was then that Time Travel became a reality, sight-wise, which is in line with those prophets who were taken to another Place-Location within Time and shown events which either already took place long ago, or shall occur in the Distant future;
The ever growing distance which we travel away from the Sun alone would account for why our ancestors before the flood lived so many years compared to our current life cycle which is growing at this moment, and in proportion with it the time it takes for an annual rotation.
To help visualize this reality, consider a marching band standing in a configuration similar to a bicycle rim with ranks of musicians positioned like spokes extending from the axle hub unto an outer rim, now visualize the ranks-spokes of musicians being given the command to march (while maintaining their collective configuration);
The result is, those who are closest to the hub must take such a small step (they almost appear to be marching in place, just as the stars at night do not appear to move unless observed over time;
Meanwhile those who are marching closest to the outer rim are required to take long lunging quick steps to keep up and in line with the gradually rotating spoke of marching musicians;
Now, I have no degree from MIT, but have marched as a soldier in such a configuration, and when your marching closest to the outer rim (depending on the length of the file rank), sometimes one must move faster than a double-time march (which is a slow jog).
Again, what is Time, but distance traveled in a cycle, yet if the cycle is gradually increasing, then yesterday's time was faster than today's time, and tomorrow's time will be even slower.