Simple question; Is time the point of the present, moving past to future, or is it change, turning future to past?

We are mobile organisms, so this sentient interface between our body and its context operates as a sequence of perceptions, so our experience of time is the present moving past to future, which physics codifies as measures of duration, but that is similar to seeing the cosmos turning east to west, before understanding it's the earth turning west to east.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

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

Time is asymmetric, because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction.

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

So energy, as present, goes past to future, while the patterns generated 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's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy and feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts through the information, signals from the noise. So there is a bias toward seeing reality in terms of the known and unknown, order and chaos, rather than energy and form. Even though galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in...