The problem with time is that as these mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as sequence of perceptions, on order to navigate, so it is our experience of time that is the present moving past to future, while the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

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.

Energy is conserved, because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't confuse them with space, even though they are as foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, as sequence is to thought.

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

What is lost by treating time as some metaphysical dimension is that what is actually being measured often gets subordinated. When it's all about that March of History, the waves cresting, the tides turning, the positive feedback loops turning negative are more easily overlooked. The ebb and flow is real.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-western-mind-906dc73cffe2