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MainFragger, I share the same curiosity and position as what you have described in your post.

Lately I have been a little obsessed with the concept of time. In my own personal blog I have contemplated the following (mostly philosophical) :

"My problem with 'Time' is trying to deem whether Time actually exists in the sense we believe it to. This arose from my perception that there is no other moment in 'time' other than the present. The world simply exists in this one moment, as we do too. And that time is just a fallicy that we use to try and digest/explain/model our changes in thought, position, size, etc. This concept of 'time' seems to arise from memory. For in my mind, just a moment in 'time' ago I was doing something else. And in my mind I determine that 'that' moment is completely different to now: 'this' current moment. Then I logically determine, that 'this' and 'that' moment can't be described solely by a change in position. (For if I was not to move, this moment is still surely different to the last moment). Thus the only factor for which I can blame this new moment on is a change in 'time'.

But to me, time hasn't elapsed. Time is a dimension defined by humans to make logical sense out of our memory. Further to this, the past only ever exists in the present - a photo, a video, a memory, a book...

I pose this question - If all corporeal bodies stopped moving (i.e. the entire universe stood still) how could we convince ourselves that time is still passing?

Is time just another dimension of perception? To me it is a characteristic of change, so if nothing undergoes change then we cannot be convinced that time has elapsed. So time is measured by change, and change is measured by time! Back to the world of calculus - yet another model used to try and make sense of what we see in the 'moment'.

We have an inherent faith in time; that time doesn't lie; that it has existed forever; that it is (disregarding relativistic speeds) invariant; and most disgustingly, that it is a guaranteed and unwaivering dimension of life.

What would our models of the universe look like without time?"