Consider how physics treats time, as measures of duration.

This is because as mobile organisms, our sentience is focused as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate. So our experience of time is as this 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 rise and fall, like so many waves.

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.

It's a bit like seeing the sun moving east to west, before understanding it's the earth turning the other way.

Energy is "conserved," because it is this physical presence. It creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Time is asymmetric, because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction. Entropy is a second order effect and not what is measured as time.

Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.

Energy, as process and present, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.

In a factory, the products go start to finish, future to past, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product, toward the future, away from the past.

As lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information. Signals from the noise.

So we tend to distinguish in terms of order and chaos, rather than energy and form.

These patterns, waves, tend to either synchronize, which is centripetal, or harmonize, which is centrifugal. So, nodes coalescing in and networks distributing out. Organisms and ecosystems. Particles and fields.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, toward infinity, while form coalesces in, toward equilibrium.

Order is synchronization, being a lot of energy defined by little information, while chaos is lots of information being expressed. Yet on scale, it tends to be equalized, thus harmonized.

So when we use our mental functions to consider the world around us, not only do we frame it in terms of the linear flow of time, stabilized as a series of events, we then concentrate on the areas providing the most clarity, which is a bit like the story of the drunk looking for his keys under the streetlight, because that where the light is. So physics focuses on the microcosmic, macrocosmic and abstract. When we look at the largest scale, it is most concisely described in terms of geometry, while the smallest scales are only accessible through interactions that can be measured. The trick then is not to build a theory based on what we see directly, but what is mssing in the gaps.

Such as that there are not tiny, invisible strings, but the energy manifesting the waves and the forms of the waves are not synonymous. They go opposite directions of time.

Epicycles were brilliant math, as a description of what we saw, but the crysalline spheres were lousy physics, as explanation, because the larger reality was outside the frame of perspective. We have a similar situation today, where the patterns are very precisely described, but the processes generating them settled into dogma years ago, that has become a crust, only allowing certain views to be considered.

Consider gravity, for instance. It is a centripetal effect. Could it be due to the inherent tendency for waves to synchronize, as a path of least resistance? Such as falling in a gravity field is a path of least resistance.

While black holes are at the center of galaxies, what is less commented on, is that quasars shoot out the poles much of what falls into them. Logically quasars are similar to lasers, which are synchronized light waves.

In which case, gravity isn't a property of mass, so much as mass is a consequence of gravity and all the additional gravitational effect isn't due to missing mass, but the synchronization going on across the entire radiological spectrum.

There are various other points I could develop, but this is one outsider's observations.