A friend of mine proposed to me an interesting theory on the origin of time. I figured that there would be some people here with thoughts on his theory.
Assuming that there was a Big Bang that occurred at the beginning of our universe, the universe is expanding from the point at which it occurred at extremely high velocity. At that point there is no time because, since it is truly stationary, time would move infinitely fast and would already be finished at that point. Since the apparent flow of time slows for things that are moving, time exists everywhere in the universe except that point.
The thing about his theory that I like is that it answers something that has been bugging me: Since the apparent rate of time varies based on your velocity, and velocity is relative to the point it is measured from, we would have an infinite number of time rates since our velocity could be measured from an infinite number of points. Perhaps the true time rate is based upon your velocity in relation to the fixed point of the Big Bang.
At any rate, when he mentioned it to me, it seemed like a topic that could get some discussion out of the people here.
