Hi Pete. The thing is...... those supposed places so far away and described as being so many billion years old and that may not be there now..... How did we get so far away from them that it's taken so long for the light from them to get here?

If we're so far away from them, the matter from which we were created must have travelled faster than the speed of light before slowing down so the light from those far off places can "catch up"? But we're told everything is accelerating?

Now, in space, bits of "stuff" will "clump together" and that goes for particles as well as "more solid" bits. So, in order for things to clump together, they must have mass? With me so far?

It's said (??) that at the moment of the big bang, "stuff" had no mass, if it had no mass, it couldn't clump together? Sooooooo, is this stuff with no mass able to travel faster than the speed of light?("stuff" with mass isn't supposed to be able to travel at the speed of light?)

So, this stuff with no mass travels faster than the speed of light and later somehow gains mass in order that it can clump together?

Yes, I know our solar system formed from the debris of previous star systems but some of the theories don't stand up unless they create an "unknown" to make it all work or fit.

One school of thought brings in Dark Matter, another goes on about Dark Energy but yet another school of thought says Dark Energy might not exist!

The Dark Matter (DM) issue is now Cold DM, Warm DM, Hot DM, Mixed DM and how many more DM theories?

Heck, it's late, I'm off out with the dog.