I think our confusion about the nature of time derives from the fact that as fauna, ie, mobile organisms, we have to intentionally navigate our environment, rather than just root into it. Consequently our biological sentience coalesces and focuses as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate. So our concept of time is as the point of the present moving past to future, rather than the evident physical reality that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no physical dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Aka, causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is conserved, because it is present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't refer to them as dimensions of space, even though they are as foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, as the sequencing of perception is to thought.

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

That society requires everyone to follow the same rules and use the same measures, it might seem like there should be some universal flow of time, but there is rabbit time, and turtle time. The turtle is still plodding along, long after the rabbit has died.

Time is asymmetric, because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction. Entropy is a second order effect and not what is measured as time.

Energy, as present and process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.

In a factory, the product goes start to finish, being in the future to being in the past. As the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product. Toward the future, away from the past.

As lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past.

Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, while the central nervous system sorts and orders the information, signals from the noise.

So there is a tendency to describe reality in terms of order and chaos, rather than the feedback between energy driving and form defining.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in. Cosmic convection cycles.

As the most basic forms, waves tend to either synchronize, which is centripetal, or harmonize, which is centrifugal. So nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, individuals and societies, contained within networks of societies, etc. Particles and fields.

As this sentient interface between body and world, we fluctuate in the middle, between synchronization pulling us in and the harmonizing effect of energy being distributed out.

One of the current issues in physics is excess gravity, in relation to the amount of evident mass, but consider that gravity is a centripetal effect, so if we consider the synchronization going on across the entire spectrum of energy, than the situation could be reversed; That mass is an effect of this centripetal effect, most evident as gravity, rather than gravity a property of mass.

Consider that quasars shoot out the poles of galaxies and as giant lasers, they are synchronized light waves.