This is puzzling because according to the original Big Bang scenario, the age of the Universe at the time when the cosmic radiation decoupled from charged matter was too low for light to have had enough time to travel even one percent of the way across the sky.
Does this mean that during the inflationary stage, the universe expanded so quickly that matter/energy/radiation would have appeared to travel faster than the speed of light to some neutral observer at the center of the universe?
