I think the primary key to unraveling the current chaos is understanding time.
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 present moving past to future. Physics codifies it as measures of duration.
The reality is that activity and the resulting change turns 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.
That culture is about synchronizing the community as a larger social organism, using the same languages, rules and measures, it might seem like there is some universal Newtonian flow of time, but that's like assuming only one frequency. Nature is so diverse and yet integrated, because everything doesn't all march to the beat of the same drummer.
Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.
So the energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, 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 in the middle.
Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.
While it is entropic for energy to radiate out, toward infinity, is seems that entropy for the information is to coalesce in, toward equilibrium. Possibly because synchronization is more efficient, than multitudes of waves.
So the synchronization of the information/structure is balanced by the harmonization of the energy. Nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.
As this synchronizing effect would extend across the entire radiological spectrum, it would mean mass is an intermediate effect of this dynamic, consequently the reason for all the excess gravitational effect is due to mass being the effect, not the source of gravity. Sort of like an overall Casimer effect.
It should also be noted the quasars shooting out the poles of galaxies are like enormous lasers, which are synchronized light waves.
Three dimension is just a mapping device, like longitude, latitude and altitude. When you remove all physical definition from space, the two properties remaining are infinity and equilibrium.
Just some ideas that have come to me, in my own efforts to make sense of all this nonsense.