Consider that in Special Relativity, a in a frame moving at the speed of light, time and space shrink to zero, as any measurement would exceed C.

So consider that in the other direction, the frame with the longest ruler and fastest clock would be closest to the equilibrium of the vacuum. The unmoving void of absolute zero.

So space is absolute and infinite. Think a number line, zero to infinity.

Time, on the other hand, is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

We are mobile organisms, so this sequencing of perception is a necessary adaptation to navigation. Time isn't so much the point of the present moving past to future, that we model as narrative, but rather change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no actual dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

So energy is conserved, because it is the present. By creating the effect of time, it goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, as the fluctuations rise and fall, back to equilibrium.

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

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

So it is circular, as thermodynamic feedback loops, but it's also the fluctuation, of that sentient interface between body and world, between the anarchies of desire driving us on, versus the tyrannies of judgement attempting to steer.