how can time not exist?

That is quite easy. Time is something we have invented by watching our surroundings and deducing that something is moving forward. Things grow, things age and decay, night and day occur, and we say, "Hmm, we must have made progress in this 'time' thing."

Other than to measure our own existence, time is quite useless and fictional.

To quote a Steven Hawking lecture....

"The conclusion of this lecture is that the universe has not existed forever. Rather, the universe, and time itself, had a beginning in the Big Bang, about 15 billion years ago. The beginning of real time, would have been a singularity, at which the laws of physics would have broken down. Nevertheless, the way the universe began would have been determined by the laws of physics, if the universe satisfied the no boundary condition."

So, anything pre-big bang would've been "outside time" at least as we know it.

That help you any?

I'm an atheist, so I have no god to prove, but the business of time has always been interesting to me.We're currently looking at the idea of the universe not being the be-all and end-all, but only one of billions of intersecting dimensions or planes.

I have a sort of side-theory that time is the exhaust-fume of matter in motion - wherever matter is in motion (and all matter of which we are aware is in motion, even down to the atromic level) then there is time.

If this is so, then perhaps there is a dimension that is at a kind of temporal right-angle to our material universe, so all "time" is seeable, knowable, and experienceable, all at once, and where there exists a kind of non-material energy.

Perhaps as evolution equips creatures for the challenges of their environment, it equips them for things of which they have no complex understanding but an instinctual feeling. Perhaps after the opposable thumb and the ability communicate ideas, evolution gave us a sense of the fractal universe, a sense that there was something "beyond the material". And with that sense we began to be able to tap into the cross-plane of the non-temporal dimension - in things like dreams, perhaps. This would have given rise to the theology of an omnipotent otherworldly force (if all times are like and instantly accessible, that gives you a certain omnipotence compared to day-after-day plodding beings like us), and the idea of "the spirit", of a human connection to that energy.

I mean, all this is off the top of my head, but you might be able to see how it could lead to the misunderstanding of the existence of a supreme being, no?

I don't know! How can we conceive of something that we don't know? What is 'a time with no time?' None of us have experienced it, no one we know was born in it, and we probably wont see it either, even if we are saved. I guess it will be one of those questions people ask Jesus about when we get there.

Time does exist.

Now is the time.

The time is now.

Do it Now.

if you went into deep space were there were no stars.....were is time there?