Lightning: Evolution of the universe in a flash?

We perceive time in many different ways. 
For example, it is said that "time flies when we are having fun", and "time seems to drag when we are bored" or waiting for something. "Time gets away from us" when we are involved in an activity that interests us, and when we look back on our lives, "it only seems like yesterday" since major evens in our lives occurred.

Have you ever wondered why we never experience time in the same way when we are doing different activities? After all, time doesn't actually change - it is a constant force throughout our universe... What makes time such an unknown phenomenon?

We have developed a method for measuring time. With seconds, minutes and hours making up the days, weeks, months and even years of our lives, we measure every aspect of time. From the smallest measurement of time to the greatest units of time, we use various scientific methods to understand time. We can understand how short a micro-second is, and we believe that the universe is between 12 and 14 billion years old.

However, we simply cannot understand how time as we perceive it relates to time outside of our dimension...

If you take a thunderstorm as an example. Lightning is an intense, powerful flash that lights up our skies for mere milliseconds...

From our point of view, the flash lasts a moment.

However, we cannot understand how time is perceived from within that flash...

(If you want to know how lightning is created, watch this video on Youtube).

During the flash of light in our skies, is it possible for a universe to be created from the Big Bang*, expand and contract back to the Big Crunch?

* THE BIG BANG THEORY: Our universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state. It expanded rapidly and cooled down. The matter that was expelled formed into planets, suns, and galaxies.

Imagine for a moment that a universe expands for millions of years... Suns are created from masses of gasses, planets are produced and evolve... Life begins to form, evolve and develop until they are at a stage of evolution when species start to develop technology.
The universe continues to expand, forming new suns surrounded by planets, populated with species, all developing.
The universe expands until it can evolve no more. The planets start to decay, suns burn out, planets start to die, species come to an end and the Universe collapses in on itself until it experiences The Big Crunch**.

**THE BIG CRUNCH THEORY: The expansion of the universe will eventually reach a point that cannot be exceeded, and then all the combined gravities within the universe will begin to pull themselves back together. The force will become so great that the universe will collapse into a reverse Big Bang Theory.

To the life within this time frame, I am talking literally billions and billions of years of evolution.

However from our point of view, it happens within a fraction of a second. A mere momentary flash. It is finished as soon as it begins.

If I take this theory outwards, who is to say that our universe, (with the billions of years of evolution and billions more we have until our Big Crunch) isn't actually happening in a mere moment? A millisecond?
Our entire universe could be over as quick as a flash of lightning to a species who exist outside our universe, beyond our dimension and beyond our comprehension...

Now, isn't that worth taking some time to think about?

- Thelittlerich