I think a big problem with our view of time is that as these mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation 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 and correlates with measures of distance.

When the evident reality is that change is turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events coalesce 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.

Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.

Because culture is about synchronizing everyone into a larger social organism, using the same languages rules, measures, etc, it might seem like there should be some universal, Newtonian flow of time, but that would be like assuming there is only one frequency, not a spectrum.

Time is asymmetric, because it's a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction.

That different events will appear in different order from different locations is no more consequential than seeing the moon as it was a moment ago, simultaneous with seeing stars as they were years ago. It is the energy that conserved, not the information. That the information changes is time.

Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't assume them to be extensions of space, even though they are as foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, as sequence is to thought.

So the energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated coalesce and dissolve, future to past. Energy drives the wave, 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 system processing the energy, the nervous system sorting the information and the circulation system as feedback between them.

So there is an intellectual focus on the patterns rather than the dynamics driving them.

Galaxies are also energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in. The measures of space based on this relationship are in inverse proportion. Omega=1. So the notion of the entire universe expanding is redundant, since the mathematical curvature of measures of space, based on the gravitational effect, curving inward, is balanced by a similar effect of the curvature of space, based on radiation, curving outward, between these gravitational vortices.

If all physical properties are removed from our understanding of space, the remaining qualities are infinity and equilibrium. Which is implicit in the fact that the frame with the longest ruler and fastest clock is closest to the over-all equilibrium of the vacuum.

So the energy radiates out, toward infinity, as structure coalesces in, toward equilibrium.

Gravity is the entropic effect of waves synchronizing, as one larger wave is more efficient than many small waves. So all the additional gravitational effect is due to mass being an effect of this dynamic, extending across the entire spectrum of energy, rather than gravity a property of mass.

So entropy for energy is to disperse, essentially harmonize across space, while entropy for structure/information, is to coalesce/collapse inward.

Synchronization versus harmonization. Nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.

Consciousness goes to the future, as thoughts recede into the past.

Lives go birth to death, future to past, as life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old, past to future.