The easiest of my wild ideas to see in your mind's eye is that the early universe in its initial transformation STOPPED Space time.
The earliest event for what we call Inflation after the big bang did not happen in a plank instant but instead the early production of Mass stopped space time while inflation continued. Remember mass slows time.
An entire universe of mass in a localized area stopped time until enough space had grown to allow less dense mass slowly allowed a restart of Time. Space can go faster than light so nothing is violated while mass thinned out and cooled enough to form stars, be they made of regular matter or dark matter - all this happened after the great annihilation of anti matter.

Millions of dollars have been spent to discover the nature of the mysterious impossible nature of inflation while I think the answer was in front of us for a 100 years.