[ewzimm]

You're in good company. Something similar, minus the hydrogen phase, is proposed by Roger Penrose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles_of_Time

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

I went to a talk of his on CCC ages ago, and it was such a fascinating combination of geometry, causality, and asymptotics. I have absolutely no clue whether it's reasonable physically, but independent of that, it's just a really elegant fusion of topics in a fun to think about way. Worth a read for anyone who just appreciates elegant new ways of combining mathematical structures.

[sellmesoap]

I've also seen this talk, at the behest of some spaced out friends of mine, an amazing experience and I still think about the universe through the lens of that talk!

[mensetmanusman]

Apparently time ceases when absolutely all mass is gone, because mass is required for a clock.

This of course requires the decay of protons.

[butlike]

Isn't mass filtered into this [environment, reality] by the higgs mechanism?

[MattPalmer1086]

Why would time cease because all the measuring devices were gone?