What if you encounter a planet who sits on the envelope of normal space-time and subspace thereby from outside viewer a few minutes = years on the planet?

 

then it wouldn't work

:edit: thats the other thing that gets me... since the universe is constantly expanding, and presumably our galaxy is flying through space pretty darn fast, not to mention our solar system or planet within that galaxy, is there any such thing as sitting still? Is there anything in the universe that isn't hauling ass? And if so, how does that effect the passage of time there :thinking:

 

Everything is moving, even our own sun oscillates despite being stationary in the solar system center.

 

standing still is relative, like most other things. you could be standing still relative to earth or the moon or the sun but to a 3rd party you're moving.

 

Yeah, but what I'm wondering is if there is anything that is sitting still in the universe? Theoretically, if the universe is explanding from a single point outward, maybe the spot right in the middle (the origin, or nucleus of th big bang) is "sitting still" :eek3:

 

It is true that objects closest to the universal origin would be older than those further out, so if they are still, they've undoubtedly have extinguished themselves thus making detection near impossible.