I did buy his book, but the math was not for a general audience.

No one seems to mention the point I keep trying to make, that energy is "conserved," because it is the present, which goes past to future, while any information it generates, like the fluctuations, from which all math is derived, go future to past.

Think of a wave; As the energy radiates out, the ripples rise and fall, come and go, future to past.

Given that only the present is physically real, the future is not determined, because the act of determination can only occur as the present. Yet all these particles, waves, quanta, patterns, formulae, etc, are distinctions derived from this energy.

Consider we have the same problem with consiousness, which also goes past to future, as with energy, in that we can only describe it in terms of the forms it manifests, like perceptions, emotions, thoughts. Which come and go, future to past.

Yet think of how consciousness is always trying to push, examine, feedback on these feelings and thoughts. Both being them, but somehow separate from them.

Now consider the essential problem of quantum mechanics, that the forms we observe and measure, don't quite seem to be all there is, that something is always reacting in ways we can't seem to measure, yet when we do find ways to extract that final bit of information, other issues arise and we go in circles.