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why not? i mean, the earth sits in its place in the universe, why not the universe sit in its place in something else? like russian dolls.

Because the universe means 'everything'.

. . but although time might be irrelevant in a vacuum of nothing, i would argue that it still passes. . . . if you were to creat a vacuum in a lab, it wouldnt signal the ceassation of time. just its relevance in that vacuum.

A vacuum is a very busy place, there would be numerous other things happening in that vacuum that could be measured (could be timed). An truly empty space is just a philosophical idea.

But where there is nothing, there is no time.

so even if our universe ends up in the big crunch into nothing, time would still pass.

You still haven't answered the question of what then you think this stuff time is - if not simply a measure of change.