As someone outside of the scientific establishment, my view of problem solving is that there are two different methods.
The more common solution is to examine a problem closely and devise a solution to fit it.
The other is to step back and see where this issue rests in a broader continuum, hopefully to detect the causes of the effect in question and seek to address those, rather than just patching the immediate problem.
While I find the second to be more effective, it lacks the focus and initial clarity to which expertise is inclined.
For example, as mobile beings, we have a sequential process of perception, in order to intentionally navigate, as well as evolving a narrative based culture, of communicating our experiences and knowledge. So we experience time as a series of events and naturally think of it as the point of the present, moving past to future. Which physics codifies as measures of duration.
The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events come and go, rise and fall.
There is no literal "dimension" of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
The sequence is not causal. Yesterday doesn't cause today. The sun shining on a spinning planet creates this cycle of days and nights. Our experience is flashes of perception, whose primary function is basic navigation.
Time is asymmetric because it is a measure of predictable actions and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction.
Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.
So time is an effect, similar to temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes.
Time is frequency, history is amplitude.
Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't refer to them as the 5th and 6th dimensions of space, because they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequence of thought.
Energy is "conserved," because it is the present. Its dynamic change creates the effect of time.
Consequently the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.
The energy is what drives the wave, while the patterns we sense, the undulations and fluctuations from which we derive the information of frequency and amplitude, rise and fall, future to past.
As consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts and emotions go future to past.
Even galaxies are energy radiating toward infinity, while the forms coalesce toward equilibrium.
Suffice to say, if I raise this argument in any remotely scientific or academic forum, it crosses too many implicitly sacred lines and will be ridiculed, if not banned.
Yet the presumption is that Theoretical Physics is going to escape its current logical cul de sac, of multiworlds, multiverses, etc, by studying the details ever more closely and hammering particles at each other ever harder. Yet leave basic assumptions unquestioned.
It resembles the geocentric cosmology, where the math of epicycles was a brilliant and finely worked out description of our view of the cosmos, but the crystalline spheres proposed to explain this geometry were lousy physics.
There is a reason why the people who run armies are called generals, while specialist is about one rank above private.
