[TigersEye]

I’m glad you asked that it confuses me too.

I would have asked it more simply;

How can the mass that composes our galaxy, which began traveling from the same point as all other mass in the universe, and which does not travel anywhere close to the speed of light, be ahead of the light that originated in those galaxies approximately 13 billion years ago?

[onedoug]

If inflation is correct, there would have been but an instant in the creation event before the physical laws of the universe were established, including an upper limit for the velocity of light, which prior to that "era" was virtually limitless. Thus the constraints on how far back in time - also thus created - we can see.