What if it's all just a bunch of patches on patches?
Consider that as mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the present moving past to future.
GR codifies it as measures of duration, correlated with measures of distance, to come up with spacetime.
Yet the evident reality is that activity and the resulting 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 dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
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.
Energy is conserved, because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.
The energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.
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, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the information and the circulation system is feedback in the middle.
Three dimensions are a mapping device, like longitude, latitude and altitude. The conceptual parameters of space are infinity and equilibrium. wWich is implicit in the frame with the longest ruler and fastest clock being closest to the equilibrium of the vacuum, the unmoving void of absolute zero. Zero to infinity.
Galaxies are energy radiating out, toward infinity, as structure coalesces in, toward equilibrium.
While most energy is radiated back out, before reaching the black hole, what does fall in is shot out the poles, as quasars. Which are like giant lasers and lasers are synchronized light waves.
What if entropy for form is to synchronize? Just as entropy for energy is to radiate?
Then the excess gravity wouldn't be a product of dark matter, but that what we call matter is an intermediate effect of this dynamic, going from the barest bending of the light, to the vortex in the center.
As for BBT, if space actually expanded, wouldn't the speed of light have to increase, in order to remain CONSTANT?
Instead it's basically assumed there are two metrics of space, based on the speed and spectrum of the same light. If the speed were being used as the numerator, it would be a "tired light" theory, but as an expanding space theory, the speed is still the explicit denominator. The Ruler being used to measure this expansion.
One way light does redshift over distance, is as multi spectrum packets, as the higher frequencies dissipate faster, but that would mean we are sampling a wave front and th quantification of light is an artifact of its detection. A loading, or threshold theory of light.