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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If the heat death occurs, how can time itself stop?

Since space and time is the same thing, how can time stop if the heat death occurs? The low energy particles evenly distributed in the universe would still be distributed in space, with space between them. Right?
gpt
Love this question!

This is where metaphysics and philosophy blend. Also, a classic question becomes metaphysically/philosophically beautiful!

If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?

Most people answer yes. What you're saying is that it exists independent of our observation.

Relating back to the bigger question, you're saying that our understanding of time is the disorder of energy and the spreading of energy; that our definition of time is the ability and existence of energy transfer.

Well, the only real reason for understanding time like that is because that's the only way we have/ may ever comprehend time. Once all energy stops transferring (we're dead), who's to say that energy transfer is time anyway? Sure that's the only way we comprehend it, but it could be something entirely different and not understandable to us.
So to answer your question, maybe (like almost every other metaphysical question's answer).

Tl;Dr
Just because energy transfer is our way of observing/comprehending time, doesn't mean that that is what time is.