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.
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.
Yes, but it would not be change as we know it. Change would look diifferent.
That's a very interesting hypothesis…
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.