My simplistic answer, time exists so we can quantify change. In a static universe without time, could there be any change? Without change, there is no life.
Imagine all moments of your life existing as a continuum- like a movie. When you don’t watch the movie, it still exists and there are still changes - the beginning is different from the end. But the changes are spatial, not temporal. It’s more like a painting that you can admire as a whole. Does that mean there’s no life? I really don’t know.
My simplistic answer, time exists so we can quantify change. In a static universe without time, could there be any change? Without change, there is no life.
Yes, but it would not be change as we know it. Change would look diifferent.
What could it be then? Or is this just poetry?
I don’t think we have an easy word for it.
We are living in time, so it is difficult to imagine how things look like outside of time.
Fair enough.
That’s a very interesting hypothesis…
Imagine all moments of your life existing as a continuum- like a movie. When you don’t watch the movie, it still exists and there are still changes - the beginning is different from the end. But the changes are spatial, not temporal. It’s more like a painting that you can admire as a whole. Does that mean there’s no life? I really don’t know.