Form collapses toward equilibrium. Energy radiates toward infinity.

Which makes galaxies cosmic convection cycles.

Equilibrium is implicit in SR, as the frame with the fastest clock and longest ruler is closest to the equilibrium of the vacuum.

Time is not so much the point of the present, moving past to future, as it is change, turning future to past. 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.

Energy is "conserved," because it is only present. It creates the effect of time, as well as temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes.

So the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

With a wave, the energy drives it, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

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 it manifests go future to past.

Not only is the Big Bang Theory inference, but it can't be falsified, as whenever there is a gap between prediction and observation, some enormous new force is assumed and all is well.

Before Inflation, Dark Matter and Energy, the original patch was when they realized that as redshift increases proportional to distance in all directions, it makes us appear to be at the center of this expansion, so it was changed from an expansion in space, to an expansion of space, because spacetime!

Which ignores the central premise of Relativity, that the speed of light is constant in all frames. If it is redshifted, intergalactic light can't be constant to intergactic space. More lightyears, not stretched lightyears. Which means lightspeed is still the metric against which this expansion is measured.

We are at the center of our point of view, so an opitical effect would be the place to look and it has been shown that multispectrum light "packets" do redshift over distance, as the higher frequencies dissipate faster, but that would mean we are sampling a wave front, not observing individual photons. Which would make photons the smallest measureable quantities of light, not point particles of light.....

So it is circular, reciprocal and feedback generated, while this linear goal seeking grows ever more tenuous, illogical and bankrupt.

Money is a contract, not a commodity....