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And so from one angle time is a measurment and form another angle time is a force. Ether a pushing force field or a pulling attraction force.
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I think to us it seems like a force, since we don't have the capacity to stop it. Our speed of our experience of time progressing is bound to how quickly we can process it. The only reason we experience time at a certain rate, is that the rate of change of our brain machery's that causes comprehension is bound to the rate of change of the universe. It's imaginable that if our brain was 10x as efficient at processing reality, we would experience time as if our worldly accepted 1 second, feels very slow, like 10 seconds. Or the opposite could be true, a brain that was 10x less efficient, would experience time happening 10x as fast.
Oceans of frozen time could exist between any two moments we experience, because if the world isn't moving, niether is our ability to sense that it has stopped. For all we know the actual way that time works is in jerky motions of really fast time, where thousands of years for us happens in a moment (as far as whatever is moving time along is concerned), and eons of non-time between moments.
Say the process of time progressing forward, is bound to a waterwheel in a paralell universe. Every time the wheel's master puts water through the wheel, the wheel turns and time in our universe progresses forward. The master could put water through the wheel at his leisure, because since our perception of time is bound within time itself, we can't tell the difference between when there is a steady supply and gaps in the water feed. For all we know the master died a moment ago and 50 trillion years passed in this parallel universe before another being came along and tried putting water through the wheel. The only way it would carry over to a percievable difference on our end, debatably, is if the wheel was destroyed, or somehow it was made impossible for the wheel or time to ever turn again. That would mean that our existence would discontinue, with us frozen in a moment for all eternity, but our consciousness would have effectively vanished from existence, since the progress of time we rely on to exist and think, would have forevered stopped.