Spacetime treats time as a measure of duration and space as a three dimensional coordinate system.

Our organic bias is that as mobile organisms, we experience our reality as a sequence of perceptions, as a function of navigation, so we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events come and go.

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

Time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present. As process, it goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the ripples rise and fall. One to the future, the other to the past.

As consciousness goes past to future, while perceptions emotions and thoughts rise and fall, future to past.

The three spatial dimensions are a mapping device, like longitude, latitude and altitude. If you remove all physical proerties from space, it has the non-physical qualities of equilibrium and infinity.

Equilibrium is implicit to SR, as the frame with the longest ruler and fastest clock would be closest to the equilibrium of the vacuum. While being unbounded means it is infinite.

So the energy of the wave goes out, towards infinity, while the fluctuations fall inward toward equilibrium. Both entropic.

QM is based on the assumption that reality is the information that can be extracted from it, but if energy and information essentially go opposite directions of time......