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Old 10-May-2008, 04:37 PM
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If light travels at a finite speed and nothing travels faster than light...
You might enjoy the Cosmology Tutorial of Ned Wright. You'll like his surname, if nothing else.

His Cosmology FAQ touches on your assumption:

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Can objects move away from us faster than the speed of light?

Again, this is a question that depends on which of the many distance definitions one uses. However, if we assume that the distance of an object at time t is the distance from our position at time t to the object's position at time t measured by a set of observers moving with the expansion of the Universe, and all making their observations when they see the Universe as having age t, then the velocity (change in D per change in t) can definitely be larger than the speed of light.
... which then quickly descends into mathematics, so be prepared.
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