Having to go to work, so back to time.

There is only the state of the present. The effect of the passage of time is this state is dynamic. The forms being expressed form and dissolve, future to past, while the energy driving this dynamic transitions to the next form.

Like a movie. The light goes from one frame to the next, past to future, while the frames flash up and then are replaced by the next, future to past.

Just as lives go from birth to death, being in the future to being in the past, while the process of life is constantly moving onto the next generation and shedding the old, past to future.

As for the Carver Mead article, one of the things I like about his position is that it's waves all the way down.

The big problem with the Big Bang Theory, at least most obvious, is that if intergalactic space is expanding, why isn't the speed of the light crossing it increasing proportionally, in order to remain constant?

Instead two metrics are being derived from the speed and spectrum of the same light.

Given it is an expanding space and not tired light theory, the speed is still used as the denominator. Google any description and it will say the universe expanded, using lightyears as the metric, even if they then turn around and say the speed of light crossed at a different rate. That it is currently 48 billion lightyears to the furtherest galaxies, but only took 13.8 billion lightyears to cross it. So what is the speed of the light measuring, if not the space?

Einstein said space is what you measure with a ruler, but it would seem the space and the ruler don't match. Which is the denominator and which is the numerator?

One way light does redshift over distance is as multi-spectrum packets, as the higher frequencies dissipate faster. Yet that would mean we are sampling a wave front and not detecting individual photons having traveled billions of lightyears. Meaning the quantification of light is an artifact of its detection and measurement.

Obviously I could be the one way out on the branch, but fortunately I don't have to earn my living at this, so I can afford to speculate. Given there are enormous patches holding cosmology together, Inflation, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, it would seem it can only be patched, not falsified. Which is not a good sign. Though the sociological aspect is that to get ahead, one doesn't not question the program.

I, on the other hand, sense a rabbit hole.