Universe expands into future and past

The universe is bigger than that which can be observed and is in fact larger in light years than the number of years since the big bang. The universe must have, at some point, expanded faster than the speed of light.

Einstein tells us that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light within the universe and yet mass at the front of the FTL portion of the expansion would appear to be doing just that.

This apparent violation would suggest that something must be happening to prevent it. Perhaps this mass would be forced to travel backwards in time. If it is traveling backward in time it would eventually journey to before the big bang.

Thus the big bang could actually be located somewhere in the middle of the timeline of the universe with expansion occurring both into the future and into the past. (Could antimatter move differently in time under this circumstance? Could this account for the lack of matter-antimatter annihilation that would other wise have been expected to occur just after the big bang?)