Time is real, but it's an effect, like temperature.

We are mobile organisms, which requires this sequential process of perception, in order to navigate, so we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future, but the reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

So 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 is the present. It creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, which are as foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, as sequence is to thought.

So energy, as process and present, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy while the central nervous system sorts the information.

So when people think too much, they obsess over the patterns, rather than the processes generating them.