I just don’t get it.
According to the theory of special relativity, nothing can ever move faster than light speed.
But due to the expansion of the universe, sufficiently distant stars move away from us faster than the speed of light.
And the explanation is…that this universal speed limit doesn’t apply to things that are really far away?
Please make it make sense!
Iirc, the speed of light limits the speed at which action (information) can be transmitted through space, but doesn’t impose a limit on the “velocity” of the space itself, i.e. two objects can remain “at rest” at fixed coordinates in space but appear as being moved away from each other (even with a velocity larger than the speed of light) due to expansion of the space.
(I’m only a mechanical engineer with profession in mechanics, not a physicist, so please take this with a grain of salt)