Hello Gup20 and welcome to the forum!
I have to admit that I had a few problems with your post as it seemd to contradict what we know about relativity in a number of places.
If indeed the universe as we know it has a center and an edge, and if we are close to the center than we are to the edge, then time is relativistic. For those planets and galaxies close to the edge (or event horizon) of the universe, time is much faster.
Actualy, from our perspecive, time on the faster moving outer galaxys would be much SLOWER.
From our perspective it DOES appear that everything in our hubble volume is moving away from US at at increasing distances. Physiscs has shown that this is because Space itself is expanding, It looks the same way from every galaxy so no galaxy can be said to be the unique center of the universe.
It also appears that our universe is finite. This is because as space expands, more and more galaxys will be moving away from us at a faster and faster speed. Once these outer galaxys are moving away faster than the speed of light they dissapear entirely and leave our "hubble volume". {edited to add} this disapearance is not sudden though as they have been geeting dimmer and redder due to the doppler effect.
In a few billon years space will have expanded to such an extent that the only other galaxy visible (or reachable) from ours will be the andromida galaxy
So even though it may SEEM like we are the at the center of the universe and even though it may SEEM like the universe is finite. The evedence actualy points the other way. The universe is infinite, has no unique "center" and no "edge".
For those things nearer the center of the universe, time would pass more slowly. Therefore, there is time dialation between us and the stars - this is how we can see light from stars that are millions of light years away while only 6000 years passes on earth.
No, again you have it backwards. Time would seem to move more QUICKLY for us. Because as things move time slows down for them.
See this post of mine for more on relativity and how observers cannot tell if they are moving or not merely based on time dialation:
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This message has been edited by The Dread Dormammu, 12-08-2004 06:00 AM