[onedoug]

If inflation is correct, there would have been but an instant in the creation event before the physical laws of the universe were established, including an upper limit for the velocity of light, which prior to that "era" was virtually limitless. Thus the constraints on how far back in time - also thus created - we can see.

[TigersEye]

I’m afraid I’m not following that. If light had traveled even faster then than its current speed that would make it even more unlikely that it would still be arriving at our position now rather than having passed by billions of years ago.