There is a conundrum wrapped in a riddle here:
If the universe had no beginning then it is an effect without a cause, violating the axiom that every effect must have a cause
If we assert that the universe had a beginning then we are violating the axiom that you cannot get something from nothing...what created the universe? what existed before the universe was created?
This is the reason Big Bang (BB) enthusiasts only like to discuss the fraction of a moment after the BB event itself and not what caused it. Cognitive dissonance abounds. [link to www.thunderbolts.info]

Hence science is unable to formulate any valid theory as any theory violates its own strictures. The next logical conclusion, one or both of those hypothesis is incorrect. Such strictures may hold currently when dealing with matter, but what is energy besides our sad attempt to describe it as an ability for a system to do work. What is work, well it is energy, and round and round we go. So I assert one cannot claim the above strictures hold for energy when we do not even have a realistic description of what it is or in truth understand it in the least. Just as with gravity supposition upon supposition which has morphed into what we take as fact. Two of the biggest unknowns in modern science, gravity and energy, yet we are assured we understand them completely. [link to www.thunderbolts.info]