I'm not sure how scientifically solid this is, but in a way, maybe time doesn't exist as much as it's just a way for us to understand the world around us. There is really only movement. Even clocks measure time by moving. When the big arm is here instead of there, we call that an our. The clock arm has to move a certain speed over a certain distance, of course, then it's one hour.
Particles move. The only reason time seems to exist is that the causal chain of all that movement of particles and energy rays goes in one direction. A ball that rolls into a still standing ball, causes that ball to move. It can't happen the other way around, so that's the causal chain, and so time is really just what we call forward movement of atoms and ****. Or maybe that's all B.S. But as far as I know, time doesn't, as such, "exist". It is purely conceptual, unlike matter and movement.
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