Did matter travel faster than light during big bang?

this is somewhat similar to a question I answered realative to time travel. The short answer is no, there was never a time, nor will there ever be a time when matter (massive fermions) travel faster than light (massless bosons). This is because massive objects need energy to accelerate and regaurdless of how much energy was released in the big bang, it could not have been infinite, and that is what is required to move a massive particle faster than light. Light speed is not a derived measurement, it is a fundemental constant that is the same in all reference frames. Here's the cool exception though.....and this is how a theoretical warp drive would work..... the actual expansion of space itself might have been faster than light. There has never been a limit imposed on the speed at which space expands although because gravity is a result of the deformation of space and gravitons are the theoretical force carrier, it has been assumed that the expansion of space would occur only as fast as gravitons can travel....which is most likely light speed. One of the many postulates asserted by string theory is that gravitons may not be bound to our spatial demensions, that they might radiate through extra demensions (which would account for gravity's lack of strenght compared to the other forces). If this is the case that the gravitons travel through other demensions it is quite possible that within a given reference time, a graviton could pop into a superior demension and back into our at some other point and essentially beat light to some defined location.

I know thats a little confusing.....but its fun to think about.

I would have said that the answer was no, nothing can travel faster than light, until I read the attached paper by two astrophysicists. The expansion of of spacetime during the Big Bang (which is still going on) has created parts of the universe which are actually receding from each other at greater than the speed of light in a vacuum. Now this does not exactly constitute matter traveling faster than the speed of light, but the separation between the matter is increasing at greater than the speed of light.

Your First question uses the word during, which implies time, which had not come into being until the big bang. Therefore at the moment of the big bang nothing was traveling at all cause you time to pass in order for there to be the passing of events (movement).

ok, before each and every thing, the "inflationary era" isn't like the "large bang", yet only a short second in the course of the great Bang, about 10^-35 seconds lengthy, and then the size of the universe grow to be in elementary words about the size of a sea coast ball. it truly is a ought to to make this large distinction. Now, issues won't be able to bypass swifter than the speed of light in this universe, yet there is not any such limit on the size enlargement of this universe, because it truly is no longer really "increasing into something", like some type of a bomb explosion. the acceptable analogy i will provide as we talk describing this "inflationary" second is to imagine a pond of supercooled water, below freezing and yet nonetheless liquid (definite, this can nicely be finished). in case you dropped a pin into the pond, it would almost without delay freeze over. something like this exceeded off, and considering that of this with COBE measurements of the microwave historic past of the universe on the instantaneous, we see little or no anisotropy of the radiation, yet in simple terms adequate, as envisioned through the inflationary hypothesis.

http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/ALSTool/EMSpec/EMSp...

Yes