Your answer is three letters.
God.
No matter how smart you get refer back.
I missed the news that we see things 93 billion light years away.
https://www.britannica.com/science/parsec
“The farthest galaxies and quasars have distances on the order of about 4,000 megaparsecs, or 13,000,000,000 light-years.”
They have a chatbot at the site that you could ask...
The Big Bang is just our current theory. We will think of something more accurate eventually.
We don’t know the age nor size of the universe. There are many who believe the universe is infinite in age and size. That would answer all your questions.
Sabine Hossenfelder on Youtube said it best last week.
Physics has become a playground for Academics instead of understanding.
Why work when you can get someone to fund your “research” that has no chance of ever coming up with an answer.
Your answer is the Universe is far more complicated than we know with our existing understanding.
Have you tried google?
They might refer you to wikipedia where we are told, “The proper distance (measured at a fixed time) between Earth and the edge of the observable universe is 46 billion light-years[49][50] (14 billion parsecs), making the diameter of the observable universe about 93 billion light-years (28 billion parsecs).[49] Although the distance traveled by light from the edge of the observable universe is close to the age of the universe times the speed of light, 13.8 billion light-years (4.2×109 pc), the proper distance is larger because the edge of the observable universe and the Earth have since moved further apart.”
Admittedly, the current thinking is that we don’t really know how “old” the universe is, which would include how “old” time is. It’s a puzzlement.
It might make you unhappy to hear it, but the most Occam’s Razor answer might be that the God of Israel created both the light and the lights.
Certainly the size and speed of the universe should humble us.
We do “know,” however, that spacetime is one “thing.”
Light has a speed limit traveling through the medium of space /time, but the expansion of that medium itself in not bound by the same limit.
Light years, you’re talking about spacetime, so the edge of the universe is not just the edge of space, it’s the edge of time. If space is expanding, so is time.
We sent out the space probe in 1977, travelling 50,000 mph. Now half a century later it has traveled about 5/6 of a light day.
Have you accounted for Ludicrous Speed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygE01sOhzz0
We as humans do not have the ability to comprehend certain things- much like insects cannot understand algebra.
I don't think that statement is accurate.
Here's my limited understanding of this:
We see light from objects that were much closer when they emitted it, but due to cosmic expansion, those objects are now estimated to be up to 46.5 billion light-years away (which is the calculated radius of the observable universe—meaning the farthest regions whose light has reached us).
We observe light that has traveled for up to 13.8 billion years (since the Big Bang).
However, because the universe has expanded while that light was traveling, the regions that emitted it are now much farther away—up to 46.5 billion light-years distant today.