I’m not sure the universe “pauses” at all – everything follows the same physical laws, so even what looks like stillness is just a superposition of countless tiny motions. Think of it like a calm lake; the surface may look still, but waves are always moving beneath. In that sense, there’s a hidden order, a quiet balance, but it’s still driven by forces, not a pause. The trick is to see the calm as a baseline from which everything else diverges, and that baseline is just as dynamic as the motions it underpins.