Here is a deconstruction of time;

As mobile organisms, this sentient interface between body and world functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate. So our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. Which physics codifies as measures of duration.

The reality is change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events form and dissolve.

There is no 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 manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Energy goes past to future, because the patterns it generates come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

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

So when we try to build a physical theory based entirely on the information, it does get a little slippery.

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

Entropy for the energy is to expand, while entropy for the information is to contract.

Synchronization versus harmonization; Nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields. Black holes and black body radiation.