If the big bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, and the universe is 93 billion light years in diameter, how did the universe expand faster than light?

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If the big bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, and the universe is 93 billion light years in diameter, how did the universe expand faster than light?

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Nothing can travel faster than light. But expansion is not travel. Galaxies, clusters and superclusters are not (generally) traveling away from each other, the space between them is just getting wider.

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