I am more pedestrian in my understanding.
Since it is Space*Time that is expanding faster than light, by which we measure time, basically we have “Space travelling faster than light” and “Time travelling faster than Light”. That 2nd component I find difficult — it is analogous to saying “Time travelling faster than Time”. So I narrow it down to “matter (space) travelling faster than time i.e. the speed of light.
To put it in the 2nd frame, it would be as if Matter were greater than Matter. Space*Time is greater than SPace. Space*time is greater than Time. Space*Time is~ Matter*Time is greater than Matter*SpeedOfLight — drop out time from the equation and you have Space is~ Matter is greater than Matter.
So it’s easier to truncate it to Matter travelling faster than the speed of light. That way I don’t have to deal with Time travelling faster than Time.
Matter would have been contained at space/time coordinates within the continuum so that when the continuum expanded faster than the speed of light in the very early universe, the matter contained therein would be carried along the coordinates.
Sounds like a nifty plan, dear Kevmo. The only problem I see is we can't truncate the universe to fit the categories of our present understanding without falsifying the report we get from observation of what is real, outside our minds.
Which is to say that, not only is man not the Measure of God; He is not even the Measure of the World God made. The theoretical scientist's job, it seems to me, is to seek the Measure as a guide to his work. [See Romans 1:20]
Then he might get somewhere. That, BTW, is the route that, among many others, Newton and Einstein took....
And mathematics is the tool for the job. P. S. Wesson presents an excellent example of this.