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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The stuff in space isn’t moving faster than light. The space itself is. The big bang wasn’t an explosion that propelled everything outwards. It’s the expansion of space itself.

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