Nita,

Thanks for the reply.

If there is one central point that I think theoretical physics is overlooking, is that it incorporates the narrative progression of time as a geometric dimension, codified as measures of duration.

As mobile organisms, we experience reality as flashes of perception in order to navigate, then narrate our journeys and build civilizations out of the cumulative knowledge, so the notion of the point of the present moving past to future is deeply ingrained in our psyche and culture, but the simple reality is that change turns future to past. Potential, actual, residual. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

Duration is the present, as events form and dissolve.

There is no physical dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy.

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

Time is asymmetric because what is measured, action, is inertial. The earth only turns one direction. Entropy is not being measured and is a second order effect.

Basically time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, etc. We could use ideal gas laws to correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequence of thought.

It could be said the left, cause and effect logical hemisphere of the brain is analogous to a clock/ruler, while the right, emotional, intuitive side is to a thermostat/barometer.

Given the physical process generating the patterns goes from one to the next, it is past to future, while the patterns go future to past. As in consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past. Lives go birth to death, while life goes onto the next generation, shedding the old. Products go start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product.

Necessarily this has implications throughout our understanding of reality, some of which I could go on about, but actually finding anyone willing to discuss it is next to impossible. I suppose it just goes against too many of our mental constructs, from the narrative process of thinking, to math being the decider of all wisdom.

It’s a bit like geocentric cosmology and trying to explain the sun and stars going east to west, before realizing it’s the planet going west to east. Epicycles were brilliant math, but lousy physics.

Admittedly it is a bit frustrating to me, simply because I like discussing such things, while most either make it personal or ignore the ideas.