re: #1 sundude

Ok, confess my ignorance. If the universe is about 13.8 billion years old, how can any two bits of it be more than about 27.6 billion light years apart? Did they travel at warp factor 7 for a time, or is this some of that new math I’ve been hearing about, or what?

This may certainly be wrong, but during inflation in the earliest moments of the Big Bang, the universe expanded faster than the speed of light.