My Bubble Theory of Time

For some time now, I have been a collector of snow globes. I buy one from every new country I go to and, occasionally, people who know about my collection bring me new ones from their travels. I have lined them all up on one of my bookshelves and find them to be the closest resemblance to my Bubble Theory of Time.

Imagine that each snow globe - henceforth, bubble - encloses a single moment from your life - henceforth, increment of time. Maybe in one of them, you are preparing to dive into a swimming pool or walking through the doors of your new house for the first time or watching one of your kids step on the sand castle that the other one made. Each of those increments of time are enclosed in separate bubbles and lined up in a chronological order. That long chain of bubbles is your life.

To you, the bubble you are in feels like the present, so all the ones that come before are the past and the ones that come after are the future. From where you're standing, there's a distinct past, present, and future. But suppose you could look at your chain of bubbles from the perspective of an objective being; someone who is outside of your bubbles and can see the whole chain. Someone outside of time and space. From their perspective, how would the bubble you currently think you're in be any different from all the others, when in each one of them you think that you're in the present? Think about it; the you in bubble 3 thinks that (s)he's in the present, just as the you in bubble 3587 does. Even the you in bubble 87,000,000 thinks that (s)he's in the present, even though from your current perspective, you haven't even gotten there yet. Let's say, right now you are in bubble 4,0840,132 from your perspective. How does this bubble stand out from all the other ones for the objective being, when, just like in all the other bubbles, you believe that it is the present?

It doesn't. In fact, for the objective being, there wouldn't even be a difference between the bubbles you consider past and the ones you believe to still be in the future. Not only would there not be a past, present, or future, but all the future bubbles would have already happened.

Now that's something, isn't it?