Hello David,

Yes, theoretically, nothing in universe can travel faster than the speed of light. However, the expansion is of the universe itself, so that is outside of the universe. As the universe expands, everything in the newly formed universe obeys the laws of physics.

As a side note, this view of the universe supposes that outside of the universe, there is nothing. When the universe began as a singularity 13.7 billion years ago, it has been described both as the size of a grain of sand and smaller than an atom. No one really knows. But there was nothing outside of that grain of sand-sized universe. That's impossible for us to imagine, but that's the supposition. The "big bang" wasn't like an explosion in an auto-repair shop, with bumpers and taillights and tires flying out from some central point. If that were true, we'd see a big patch of the universe where the explosion occurred that has nothing in it. Instead, the "big bang" is like blowing up a balloon. The inside of the balloon that has no sides is the universe. 13.7 billion years ago, a second before the big bang, the entire universe was the size of a balloon insides the size of a grain of sand. All the material of the universe was there, but at that squeezed size, atoms didn't even exist as know them today.

At the moment of the big bang, the universe expanded quickly and violently. In a fraction of a second the universe had expanded enormously. The material was changing in its makeup as it had more room. It wasn't really an explosion as we think of it.

Love and peace, Craig