Yes. However, in periods of time and no time, one Universe had to end so
that another could begin. So are we truly looking at the beginning and
the end of transition - if we look back far enough to the future, we
will see the beginning or the end of time.
Of course it's just semantics. If you were to hold a rope out straight
and parallel and wanted to describe the two ends, you might refer to the
left and right ends of the rope. The rope has two ends because the rope
has two sides that each "end" or terminate.
However, the end can constitute stoppage of object, when a motor is
switched off, a set sun, a particular condition, program, even time. It
can therefore refer to a place or position or dimension or time line or
condition which has three sides, as an example, where the Universe
exists, or where the Universe never existed, either before it was born
or a time after it was born where it has boundary of extinction.
So there are at least three ends to the Universe, the left end at a
focal point before the birth of time, the right end at a focal point
after the cessation of time, and the middle at which the Universe
continues existence of time (any transitional element can become an
end).
From time to time, the word edge is interchanged with the word end in
describing a boundary. A boundary can be a transition, i.e. from
something to nothing or nothing to something. This may not be a hard
physical edge but rather one constituted by elements of time, empty
space, froth, gravity, dimension, warp, lensing, bubble, light, dark,
irradiated exposure, elementary particle dynamics, Heisenberg
Uncertainly Principle, dark matter, quantum effects, time travel,
calculus period of Lorenz Contraction, or even physics not yet invented.
