This book is a good start: https://www.amazon.com/Order-Time-Carlo-Rovelli/dp/073521610X
Time is an illusion. It is related to information loss, to entropy, and how our brains perceive that. On the microscopic level, there is no "time's arrow," time does not exist. Cosmologically, there is no "now." Time is related to "falling." Things floating in space-time experience no time.
What we perceive as our universe is just a very special part of something much bigger but inaccessible. Or so I suspect. Almost pseudo-religious but everything points that direction.
This post made my day. The ridiculousness of the, let's call it, "though experiment" defies any sense of logic. The Dunning-Kruger effect has never been so artfully illustrated. OP read some wildly theoretical book written with the due diligence of "9/11 was an inside job"
I specifically linked that book in memory of a camping trip where my buddy read it and was trying to explain exactly this; why time doesn't exist. The problem was, he was violently high and couldn't string any thoughts together. He still made a better argument than the comment you replied to above.
It's been an absolute delight reading OPs tantrums at being challenged on a hill he wants to die on that's really just a landfill