Maybe the talented ones realized the field has gone too far into the realm of the non-empirical.

Computers can "shut up and calculate." What they can't do, is think outside the box.

Consider that as these mobile organisms, this sentient interface between our body and 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. Though the evident 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.

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

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

That culture is about synchronizing society into a larger social organism, using the same languages, rules and measures, it might seem there is some universal, Newtonian flow of time, but it's rabbit time, turtle time, etc. That nature is so diverse and so integrated is because everything doesn't march to the beat of the same drummer.

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

That different events will be observed 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 is conserved, not the information. That the information is constantly changing is time!

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

Energy goes past to future, because the patterns it generates go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while 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, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy and feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts through the information precipitating out. Thus the tendency to focus on the patterns, rather than the processes generating them.