I was fairly young when it occurred to me that in order to make sense of society, studying the physics driving it would be the most logical place to start. It has been, in my mind at least, a very productive endeavor. The problem I find though, is that the hardware of physiology and the software of culture have had a monumental influence on the sciences, to a degree you are only scratching the surface.

I think the most obvious example is the issue of time. As mobile creatures, necessitating a sequential process of perception, in order to navigate and as humanity, with a narrative based culture, we assume time to be the point of the present, moving past to future. Which even physics codifies as measures of duration.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

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.

Duration is the present, as the events come and go.

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

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

So time is an effect of activity, similar to temperature, pressure, color, sound. Think frequencies and amplitudes.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't refer to them as the 5th and 6th dimensions of space, because they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequence of thought.

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present. Its changing form creates time.

So energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

Think in terms of a wave; The energy is what drives it, while the forms, the fluctuations and undulations from which we get frequencies and amplitudes, rise and fall, come and go, future to past.

As these biological organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts through and further organizes the forms precipitating out. The anarchy of desire versus the tyranny of judgement.

This dichotomy of energy and form extends throughout society and reality. Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form/mass coalesces in. Societies are driven by the energies of youth and desire, while steered by and structured around the forms of culture and civics. Liberal and conservative. Youth and age.

Yet we are largely intellectually focused on the forms, as they are the definition and clarity our minds seek.

Perceptions and thoughts are of the cresting waves, frequencies and amplitudes of the fully expressed energy, yet quickly rising and falling, creating the impression of the present as a point.

Meanwhile our emotions and intuitions are more like the thermostat and barometer. Sensing the waves building and receding, yet not quite clear.

Consider as well that consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, thoughts and emotions go future to past. So it would seem consciousness functions as an energy. Thus we are driven by our desires for the fuel this light of cognition requires. Both of raw sustinance and expanded feedback from the world around us.

In Western culture we view the future as in front of us and the past behind, because we see ourselves as distinct entities, moving through our environment.

While the Eastern and Native American view is of the past in front and the future behind, because we see what is in front of us and know the past while the future and what is behind are unknown. Which accords with the Eastern philosophy of being one with one's context. As we do see events after they occur and the energy then transitions to other events.

Now consider the degree to which western science tends to see everything as objects and forms. That everything consists of quanta and even the universe is a singular entity.

Not to mention our religious presumption of the spiritual absolute as an ideal of knowledge and judgement, from which we fell, rather than the essence of sentience, from which we rise.

Conflating the ideal, which is aspirational, with the absolute, which is elemental, is politically incendiary, as most of our political ideologies see their particular ideals as beyond question and sectarian divides only grow ever deeper.

Yet is reality only the nodes, with the networks emergent? Or could it be they are two sides of the same coin?

One scientific example I try raising has to do with cosmology. The Big Bang theory cannot be falsified, as whenever there is a gap between prediction and observation, some enormous new force of nature is assumed, rather than the theory being open to question. What if your accountant just wrote in a figure and called it 'dark money,' whenever they found a gap in the books?

Before Inflation, Dark Matter and Dark Energy, the original patch was when they realized that since redshift increases proportional to distance, it makes us appear to be at the center of the universe. So it was changed from an expansion in space, to an expansion of space, because "spacetime!" Which totally ignores the central premise of Relativity, that the speed of light is a constant in all frames. If it is being redshifted, intergalactic light is not constant to intergalactic space.

With the Doppler effect, the source is moving relative to the receiver. The train is moving away. That doesn't mean the train tracks are expanding.

Given the redshift is presumably due to the light taking longer to cross, as space expands, that mans this expansion is relative to the speed of light. So the speed of light is like the train tracks. It is the denominator. More lightyears. It it was relativistic spacetime, the speed of light would have to increase, as space expands.

Safe to say, any time I raise this among those in the field, I get the finger of authority waved at me, but no one really questions the logic. It has become beyond question, so I am just wrong, logic be damned.

Now we are at the center of our point of view, so an optical effect would cause this. The fact is that multispectrum light "packets" do redshift over distance, because the higher frequencies dissipate faster, but that would mean we are sampling a wave front, not seeing individual photons that have traveled billions of years and since photons are quanta of light, little objects, even if they have mysterious properties, they're not supposed to be reducible. Which is really the holy grail of current physics.

Yet photons are form and information. Like undulations of waves, frequencies and amplitudes. So what if there is some underlaying energy actually driving these forms....

I realize this all may be a bit much, but your essay really struck a chord with me. Keep peeling away the layers.