Do You Know Time Has Stopped?
What is mind-boggling in this situation is that you won’t even be aware that time has stopped. Awareness depends on the uninterrupted chain of thoughts, sensations, and perceptions that all revolve around time. If time were to stop, it would pause your consciousness at the very same instant. There would be no thought; nothing to do; nor even a perception of the stopping of time. When time started again, it would feel like no time had elapsed whatsoever.
By definition, the feeling of time standing still is paradoxical. Since everything you think and perceive is coupled with time, the concept of a frozen moment cannot be experienced. If the universe could only stand still for a billion years, to you, it would seem that nothing in the way of an interruption had happened when time restarted.
