[DesertRhino]

Nice try,, and i know we always get told evasions like that. But the standard constant, speed of light, is expressed as being in a vacuum.
Same thing as into nothingness, unless you also believe in dark matter.

[samtheman]

186,000 mps

It’s not just a good idea.

It’s the law.

And it applies to all moving things inside the universe.

But it doesn’t apply to the rate of expansion of the universe itself.

[presidio9]

What you are both getting at is the principle of comoving distance. The universe DID expand at faster that the speed of light for the first exponentially small fraction of the first second. After that, every single point in the universe continued to move away from every single other point in the universe. Relativity's light speed limit does not apply, because in relativity velocity assumes one fixed coordinate. That's the woefully incomplete short answer. The layman's answer is that physics assumes that the force of gravity should have started to slow the expansion at some point after the big bang. Instead, the expansion is speeding up. To explain this, they have created a mysterious force called "dark energy," and the equally mysterious "dark matter." They have not been able to prove the existence of either, but its one of the reasons they built the large hadron collider.