This makes sense to me. I always pictured existence itself like this: There's an ever-expanding point and from that point there is a bubble which is time and t

This makes sense to me. I always pictured existence itself like this: There's an ever-expanding point and from that point there is a bubble which is time and then inside of that bubble there are the rest of the layers that make up existence. Outside of these bubbles is non-existence which isn't necessarily dark matter or any sort of anything. And you can't access outside of this bubble even if you were able to freeze time because there is no outside of time, you could only access all of the other layers inside of time if you were a point existence observer of some sort a theoretical entity. But no matter how you cut it it always starts with time, everything is encapsulated within that.