the universe....age vs size

[claymore]

How can the universe be bigger than its age,does this mean that it is expanding faster than the speed of light/?

[jake-the-peg]

There's no problem with the universe expanding faster than the speed of light.

The speed of light is only the limiting factor for speeds in the Universe.

In the Universe's very early history there was the so called "inflationary period" when the expansion occurred at a phenominal rate

[jake-the-peg]

Actually I should qualify that and explain.

Special Relativity does not say that the speed of light is an absolute limit.

Rather it is the other way around - the speed of light being a limit was observed and relativity uses this to deduce other effects like time dilation.

Consequently it only refers to bodies travelling in the Universe and not the Universe itself