Omniscience: A thought experiment

[robvalue]

OK thanks I don't really know what I'm talking about, I'm clutching at straws. Just hoped I'd stumbled upon something!

I thought that the observer has to be outside the "timeline" of the bit of quantum whatever he is observing, so as to be viewing it as a stationary model which much collapse. If you're in the same timeline as the thingy, you're not going to be able to see it as static, as you share its time. I'm probably totally wrong about that.

For example, as a totally made up way of trying to explain what I mean, say our universe is made up loads of quantum objects. Little building blocks or something. But each object is also a self-contained universe, with its own seperate timeline going on. As no one from outside the mini universe has observed it yet, all possibilities remain. But as soon as we look at it, since we're outside its timeline, it must collapse and show everything that will happen.

I think I can safely abandon all hopes of this being anything more than my imagination getting carried away with my very limited understanding of QM! I thought I better say it though, as it slapped me hard in the face.

Thanks for taking a look though