Here is another way to think about it.

It goes to the point I keep making about time, that while we experience reality as a sequence of perceptions, logically as an evolved consequence of naviagating, the evident reality is that change turns future to past, rather than this narrative flow from past to future.

Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is "conserved," because it manifests the present. It creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So energy, as process and present, goes past to future, while the patterns it generates go future to past.

Consider this in terms of a wave, in that while the energy drives it, passing through the medium, the fluctuations rise and fall. The energy expands out to infinity, while the ripples settle back to quilibrium.

Then consider that as biological organisms, we have the digestive respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, feeding this flame of consciousness, which also goes past to future.

While the central nervous system sorts and orders the information precipitating out, signals from the noise. As perceptions, emotions and thoughts going future to past.

Now the world of academia is all about the information, let the energy companies, banks and economy worry about the energy, its circulation and processing.

Yet the deeper they dig into this information, the more ethereal it seems. There is no tiniest form of material they can grasp, like a cave man grasping a grain of sand and sensing it's a very small rock.

So it all becomes about the patterns, rather than the "physical."

Consider that galaxies are energy radiating out, as mass gravitates in. Though there seems to be some invisible mass, as there is too much gravity.

Think about this in terms of this dichotomy of energy and form, since the energy is expanding, aka, taking up more space. So we then have this process by which it takes up last space. Is quantified. The wave function collapses.

Then the mass is not so much something material, as it is a contracting, as well as slowing, of the energy, into something relatively static. Postive and negative charges balanced out. Such that gravity is not so much a property of mass, as mass is the lower end of a spectrum that starts with the very process of quantification.

Then consider how a theoretical system that still insists time is some linear dimension, in which the events are more real than this physical state generating them, might try to construct a model dealing with this reality, that is in some senses, as illusionary as it seems.

Like blind men describing an elephant.

Even with a moving car, you can't know its exact position and momentum. One is static, the other is dynamic.