It's all just a big experiment.

bus77

The faster you go, the slower time gets, but you wouldn't notice unless you compared clocks with someone else.

From what Ive been reading about time theory, it's relative to speed.

So were all traveling at a fair old speed, considering the way everything's traveling away from the centre of the universe, the way the planets spin around the sun in the solar system which Is also spinning around with the galaxy.

So It occurred to me, If someone was standing stationary outside the known univerce, looking in.
Then all the stuff going on inside would go by a lot quicker than the outside.

That would be great for a scientist, he could just set things in motion, then, by the time he's finished lunch (millions of years for us) his experiment would be finished.

Fysh

Technically, if you stood absolutely still at the centre of our universe you could do the same thing. Problems with this include the difficulty in pinpointing the universe (given that it's expanding in such a way that everything is moving away from everything else) and the fact that, once you're there, you can't move, otherwise you will be outside of the centre and therefore no longer stationary.

Technically, there's no reason to assume that someone looking at the universe from outside would be able to observe linear time at all. It's a subjective factor, depending not only on the frame of reference but also on the psychological state. Therefore, unless there's some link between a subject within the universe and the scientist outside, it can't work.

That said, there's no conclusive proof as to whether we can spawn baby universes within our own universe. If we can, it would not only offer a great opportunity to study the dynamics of time but also a possible hope for earth-originated life much further down the line.

bus77

Cheers for the great reply Fysh:)

Im just havin trouble trying to work out the reason why time is relative instead of just being constant everywhere.

I suppose you could just say "because thats the way it is" but Im convinced theres some sort of reason for that rule.