What is the thinking on the rate of expansion of the Space Time continuum?

Question

At the instant of the Big Bang, the time / space continuum was formed : it did not exist before this. Nothing, not even information can travel faster than the speed of light in our universe (so says Albert), so the rate of expansion of this continuum into the "nothing" around it must be at the speed of light as a maximum. If it was less than the speed of light, that could have some wierd consequences : light beam would eventually reach the boundry of space-time. My maths aren't up to this sort of thing : whats the aswer from those of you who know.?

Thanks Insomniac, but I've already read that. Its a good read but far too high level. What I want to try to grasp will probably need input from some one who is actually working on modeling the few few seconds and who has some feel for how it went. I agree that our experience is Newtonian, but I am interested in the boundries.

Answer 1

An enjoyable book for you would be in the source below. It is quite an interesting book. And it's written by someone whose maths are up to that sort of thing.

Answer 2

This is not quite a fully-formed question. Read the chapter in Bill Brysons' 'A short History of Nearly Everything', but don't expect your understanding to become clearer than your dogs' understanding of your cars' fuel injection system, even after slowly explaining it to him, with diagrams. We live in a Newtonian-Rules universe, (when we walk, run, drive, throw frisbee, fly in a plane), Einstiens' rules come in when we approach the speed of light, and regions of massive gravitational pull that would seal our doom.
Rather like the bus timetables in New Dehli, there's a lot of information to shift through, but it's not really worth trying to get your head around, unless you're visiting the place.

Answer 3

actually,the space time continuum is not a physical object,but merely an idea to expalain the fourth dimension,time.however the universe is expanding,and recently evidence shows that is is speeding up.why this is happening is a mystery however.
about additional details:
if you want to model the first few seconds of the universe we have already done that.