eli5 If nothing can travel faster than C, then how does the fabric of space time expand faster than light?

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My only explanation in my thought process would be that space itself isn’t an *object* and thus isn’t actually “traveling?” I’m not sure.

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Imagine an ant walking on a rubber sheet. Stretch that rubber sheet, and for that ant’s perspective, its walking speed hasn’t changed. There’s just more of rubber sheet to walk on.