I think time hasn't been really thought out.

We are mobile organisms, which necessitates our biological sentience coalescing 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. Physics codifies it as measures of duration, to correlate with measures of distance.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events rise and fall.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. 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.

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

Consciousness 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, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information. Signals from the noise.

So we tend categorize reality in terms of order and chaos, rather than energy and form. Even though galaxies, the prime dynamic in the universe, are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

As the most basic pattern, waves tend to either synchronize, which is effectively centripetal, or harmonize, which is centrifugal, as the energy is distributed. So there are nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.

Between equilibrium and infinity.

One of the problems in physics is gravity in excess of the mass that it is presumably a property.

Gravity is a centripetal effect and at the core of galaxies are black holes, where everything has either coalesced to the edge, or been radiated out.

Anything actually being pulled in seems to be shot out the poles, as quasars. Which are like giant lasers and lasers are synchronized light waves.

Maybe it is mass that is an effect of gravity?

Sometimes the simple can be as elusive as the complex.