For all its cultural omnipotence, how much does science really understand?

I think the issue of time is a good example how we really are still in the dark ages.

We are these mobile creatures, with a sequential process of perception, as function of navigation, then as humanity, we have this narrative based culture. Consequently we assume time to be 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.

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

Duration is this physical state, as the events coalesce and dissolve, future to past.

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present. Its changing configuration creates time. As well as temperature, pressure, color, sound. Think frequencies and amplitudes.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't call them the 5th and 6th dimensions of space, because they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequence of thought.

So the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. As consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts and feelings go future to past.

So consciousness would seem to be a form of energy, a dynamic, while thought is an expression of it, the effect, not the cause.

The premise of determinism is that as cause yields effect, the entire course of the universe is determined by the initial cause. Yet it is process. In order to yield the effect, the input into the event has to be calculated and this only occurs, only is the present. We have memories and evidence of the past, as well assume there will be a future, but they are not physically real, just potential and residual.

As Alan Watts put it, The wake doesn't steer the boat, the boat creates the wake.

I could go on, but this should be enough to suggest that for all its accomplishments, sciences is just scratching the surface. Safe to say, this is not a popular argument with anyone in a position of authority, but they really are off in unicorns and dragons territory, with multiworlds and multiverses, etc. It really has become cult-like. Scientists are human.