Superstar wrote:
Yes. It would explain that in the very early universe things were traveling faster than the speed of light.
Early universe nothing, it's even faster now. But you're supposed to fall for a spurious metaphysical trick and imagine that the "space" or whatever substance of the universe itself is expanding, instead of the things actually moving.
Modern cosmology plays a smoke-and-mirrors game where it hides alternately behind the four nebulous concepts of space, time, matter and energy. They are kind of the replacement for earth, wind, fire and water of old, because everything in physics boils down to those 4 things, and nobody really knows just what the hell they are. Space and time are merely conjurations of abstract measurements into a supposedly real thing. The composition of matter and energy is the subject of a tortuously complex theory of particles that "are" neither here nor there, while on the large scale, astrophysicists are certain that the vast majority of matter is some kind of invisible stuff that they have yet to discover anything about, a clever way of admitting they are clueless without losing their funding.
Physicists chase their tails around so much because they are usually not good mathematicians, and are never competent philosophers.