Offer some additional thoughts;

As mobile organisms our sentience coalesces as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our concept of time is as the point of the present moving past to future, but the reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no physical 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 the present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but they are only foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, not the sequence of thought.

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

Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.

In a factory, the product goes start to finish, future to past, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product, toward the future.

As lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form 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.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

Waves tend to either synchronize, which is centripetal, or harmonize, which is centrifugal, so there are nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.