[norwaypinesavage]

" during inflation, space itself supposedly expanded faster than the speed of light."

Riiiiiight. And the masses within space didn't expand faster than the speed of light with it? That would mean we're not 13.3 billion light years away from GN-z11.

As I said, it takes a lot of faith to believe in the Big Bang Theory.

[LibWhacker]

Ooooookay... Objects with mass cannot move THROUGH space faster than the speed of light. That's the physical law Einstein was able to figure out. If two objects are stationary with respect to one another and suddenly a trillion miles of space begins to be injected between them every second, it'll will LOOK LIKE they are moving apart at one trillion miles per second, in violation of Einstein's law. But no law has been broken because they are not moving THROUGH space faster than the speed of light.

[Larry Lucido]

I’m thinking that when God said “Let there be light,” there was a bright flash. Maybe a bang, too. But I wasn’t there to see or hear it.

[discostu]

It’s actually fairly simple stuff. Einstein already said that the way to beat the speed of light was to condense space, if you take 1 unit of space and condense it to 1/4 the size you can cross THAT at less than the speed of light but get to the other side faster than light that had to go “the long way” (uncondensed). Same kind of thing happened right after the Big Bang space was condensed, travel speed ACTED faster, but really wasn’t.

It doesn’t take faith, it takes actually paying attention and not assuming you’re smarter than them. In this case it’s all about the elevator. If you can understand that you get it, if you can’t you type “riiiiiight” and act like other people are dumb.

[onedoug]

E=mc², yet the inflationary epoch was pure energy with no matter yet congealed.