“Seemingly solid matter diffuses into clouds of energy, these clouds spread out as ripples in the quantum field, and the ripples cannot be conceived except as mathematical configurations in hyperspace.”

I think this simple, basic relationship between energy and the forms it manifests hasn’t been considered thoroughly.

As mobile beings, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems consuming and processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system perceives, organizes and distills the forms/information precipitating out.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in.

What drives and manifests a wave is the energy, while the form is frequency and amplitude.

When we see the moon, it is energy reflected from the sun that carries this information into our eyes.

The energy is “conserved,” which necessarily means it is always and only present, because it is not left in the past, nor added to, from the future.

This energy, by its very definition, is dynamic. Which means it is constantly changing form.

As these mobile organisms, navigating our environment, we experience a sequence of perceptions, so we think of time as the point of the present, moving from the past to the future, but as an effect of this energy changing form, it is really the future becoming past. Potential, actual, residual. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

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

This makes time an effect of this energy, more like temperature, pressure, color, etc, than space. Think frequencies and amplitudes.

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

The reason time is asymmetric is because it is a measure of activity and activity is inertial. The earth only turns one direction. We only confuse this by trying to explain it as a dimension.

Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism. A faster clock is energy moving/burning faster.

So the process goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past.

When you can start to wrap your mind around that, the fact of our reality being an effect of observation becomes pretty normal.