eli5: How can stuff be further from the center of the universe than physics allows?

Question

Ok so the diameter of the observable universe is 93 billion light years. That means the distance from the center where the big bang occured to the outer edges of our (observable) universe is roughly 46,5 billion lightyears.

The fastest speed in the universe is the speed of light and the universe is 13,7 billion years old.

Doesn’t that mean that the farthest anything can be from the centre of the universe is 13,7 billion lightyears?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

* There is no such thing as the “center of the universe”. 

* The “observable universe” is called that because it’s the only part we can ever observe. Our location in the universe is not special. We are in the center of a sphere around us simply because anything that exists is in the center of a sphere around it.