Time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, etc.

It’s just that as these mobile creatures, with a sequential process of perception, necessary for navigation, we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future, but it is change, turning 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, in order to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don’t call them the 5th and 6th dimensions of space, because they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequence of thought.

Think frequencies and amplitudes.

So the process, the energy, goes past to future, while the forms generated go future to past. As consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past. Or lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

If we remove all physical properties from space, it still has the non-physical qualities of infinity and equilibrium.

Infinity, because there is nothing to bound it and equilibrium is implicit in General Relativity, as the frame with the fastest clock and longest ruler is closest to the equilibrium of the vacuum. The void of absolute zero.

So space is the absolute and the infinite.

What fills space is this energy and the forms it manifests. Energy radiates toward infinity, while form coalesces toward equilibrium. Thus the cosmic convection cycles of galaxies, of energy and form going opposite directions.

As we are the heart and gut driving us on, while the head sorts through and further orders the forms precipitating out. The anarchy of desire, versus the tyranny of judgement.

So we fluctuate between the absolute, where everything cancels out, and the infinite, where everything fades out.

Expand/consolidate. Youth and age.

Cosmic convection cycles.