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Originally Posted by tore
You might find this interesting .. According to Einstein, things that move very fast move slower through time. His theories are consistent with our observations and for example satellites which travel around the earth at orbit at high speed are affected by this so much that this effect has to be corrected for when syncing their clocks to clocks close to the earth's surface.
Also, the general predicted scenario for our universe does not include a big crunch. Observations have indicated that such a scenario will never take place and that was one of the important observations that kickstarted the whole anti-matter thing.
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Yeah, time dilation is part of the whole relativity thing -- I had a university class on relativity and quantum mechanics a few years ago. And it isn't that fast moving objects move slower through time (there is no "zero" reference point in time), it's that from a stationary perspective, they appear to be.
Relativity (more specifically, velocity dilation) was responsible for the explanation of red shift phenomena, allowing astronomers to verify that the universe is indeed expanding (and therefore, NOT infinite).