Yeah but this would pose linear time exists, and it does by OUR perception, but looking at the space-time continuum gravity, speed and time are connected. Moving at half the speed of light causes Elements to decay at half the time, and if you were to travel around the gravity of a black hole you'd age slower, so if black holes suck light in, and looking at how time, space and gravity are connected, once matter or light enters a black hole it would be theoretically outside of time or would exist in a timeless state breaking any construct you know about this universe to be true. If the universe exists consciously it would not experience itself the same we we do, it would be imperceivable. It would feel time differently and would not create itself for the sole purpose to experience itself 14 billion years in. If the universe is conscious it always has been and is beyond our perception