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Originally Posted by Bill Verburg
conventional matter cannot travel faster than light speed but the expansion of the universe itself, ie the expansion of space time can and has proceded faster than the speed of light, that is if inflation as described in the standard models is correct
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Correct, and in the process it decoupled information transfer between any two points that separated faster than the speed of light. What that means in those two points in space can never know what is happening at the other one, since they are farther apart than light could travel in the age of the universe. Our "visible" universe is the sphere of space that is within 13.6 million light years. We do not know and cannot know how much larger space actually is outside that bubble.