We have a very poor understanding of the relationship between energy and information, that go to the foundations of reality.

As mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our sense of time is the present going past to future.

It is the basis of culture and civilization, as narrative and history.

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 or 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 and sound, as frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

So the energy goes past to future, because the patterns being generated come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

So not only do they go opposite directions of time, but consider that consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past.

Though it is the digestive system processing the energy and feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the patterns, signals from the noise.

Therefore this tendency to see information as primary, while energy is just something in the background.

Science tends to have a similar problem with energy, as with consciousness, in that they are defined by the forms they manifest and our perceptions tend to see the forms first and only deduce the processes giving rise to them, but then try to reductionistic ally reduce those processes to patterns. While the energy is constantly seeking out the holes in the patterns, like grass growing up through the cracks in the sidewalk.

There is a lot more to this.

Galaxies are the energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.