There is no present, only the past and the future. The deeper you look into the present, the quicker it moves into the past. As I type each letter of this discussion, it moves into the past. Slice time finer and finer and watch as each tiny moment slips instantly into the past. Finer and Finer. Faster and Faster. Slice it infinitely thin and the present no longer exists. 

And if there is no present, then go one step further and assume that time exists only in our imagination, in our own perceived experience, a creation of our magnificent brains, and then realize that the universe does not require time. Remove time and the expansion of the universe is meaningless. A beginning and an end is unnecessary. The changes, the transitions, that we think we see are wrong – belonging to a grand static structure that lives in layers and dimensions that we have yet to discover – where transformations that we see in our reality are countered by higher levels. 

Does our consciousness float through many, many dimensions? And when we cease to exist in this world, do we simply move into some other existence, in other layers of the universe?

Remove time and infinite possibilities make themselves evident.

We will never truly understand the universe while we cling to the illusion of time.