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[MCU] If Dormammu lives in a reality where time doesn't exist then how is he talking and communicating?

A sentence requires some concept of linear time. You start with the first world that is followed by the next word and so on. Also the fact that Dr. Strange was there at all implies linear time. One moment he wasn't there the next he was there.

If Dormammu really did exist in a reality without time then wouldn't everything he thought, said, or did for that matter even to the smallest thing like blinking all happen simultaneously at a single moment, ie if he blinked then his eyes would be both open and closed simultaneously because there is no time flowing?

I would think that a being that resides in a reality where time does not exist would be so far alien to us that we couldn't even comprehend its existence. It would be like trying to explain to a 2 dimensional being what the concept of up was.
gpt
MCU's Dormammu doesn't live in a dimension where time doesn't exist. It's that time doesn't exist in the same way it does on our dimension.


The Dark Dimension is an amalgamation of all the dimensions and realities that Dormammu has successfully taken over. So the laws of physics and quantum mechanics are completely under his utter control and also an amalgamation of all the other dimensions he's absorbed.


To illustrate this, let's assume time moves linearly for us in some measurable way of the time it takes a electron swarm is some hydrogen atom to complete 1,000,000 orbits or something somewhat constant. In another dimension that same second of time takes 10,000,000 orbits or in another it takes 5.



All of these dimensions smash into each other with competing fundamental laws of physics and Dormammu basically asserts his will over them when he wants. He doesn't want time to move, then it doesn't. Or it does in one area and not at all in another.



The physics of the Dark Dimension are basically whatever Dormammu wants. Only when Strange comes to negotiate he brings along an immutable time loop which Dormammu cannot control. 


Dormammu is also a primordial force. He's basically a force of nature on a cosmic scale with a will, an ego, and not much else. Being a promordial force comes with a lot of power, but also not a lot of intellect. You can't reason with a hurricane or a tornado. This is Dormammu, you cannot reason with him, until he runs full force into something that basically stops the hurricane. Dr. Strange's immutable time loop.


Strange gets through to Dormammu by stopping the hurricane and forcing him to change direction.