You don’t need “time” to exist as a thing in order for events to happen.
All you need is change and sequence.
Saying you can’t exist without time is like saying you can’t walk without “inches”but inches aren’t real, they’re just how we measure distance.
So “time” is just how we label the order of events we experience.
The fact that I typed a message and you’re reading it now doesn’t prove time exists it only proves one event happened before another. That’s sequence, not time my dude.
The universe doesn’t care about seconds or hours nawm it just moves from state A to state B.
interestingly
its possible that distance is also relative
IE ive seen it postulated that earth is the real black hole and we are seeing all the myriad realities possible "vent" off of it
so when you look down what appears as dry land is actually the event horizon that you don't perceive cause you have always stood on it, but in theory you may never know an earth without soil/water etc
in the bible there is statement "He is enthroned so high above the earth's surface that the inhabitants are like bugs to him"
seems otherworldly but can literally just be describing man walking on the earth from the perspective of ants (letters on paper)