One point that is overlooked is that as mobile organisms, with a sequential process of perception, as a function of navigation, as well as a narrative based culture, we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future. Codified 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, aka, causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

So time is more like temperature, pressure, color, sound, than space. Think frequencies and amplitudes.

The energy is "conserved," because it is the present. The physical reality and its changing configurations create time. Duration is this present state, as the events rise and fall.

So energy goes "past to future," while the patterns generated go future to past. Much as consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past.

The problem then is that all our observations, measurements, etc, are of the patterns, be they particles, waves, fields, etc. Yet the underlaying reality seems to keep slipping by our measurements, as this quantum fuzziness.

How might this affect some of the issues? Consider that galaxies are effectively cosmic convection cycles of energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. Yet there is far more gravitational effect than observed mass, so the problem of "Dark Matter."

What if, in the relationship between energy and the forms expressed, anything resembling information amounts to a form of wave collapse, starting out with photons. So what we refer to as mass and gravity are only the lower end, more dense expression of this dynamic. Then the collapse further out the spectrum is what is causing that additional "gravitational" effect.

I could go on, but just a thought to consider.