What if the problems go far deeper than just out on the cutting edge?
What if even particle physics is based on a reductionist, object oriented worldview that has lost context?
As someone who's followed the field from afar, it does seem there are tendencies to spiral into rabbit holes, yielding more reductio ad absurdum, than grand visions.
Consider time; As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface between body and situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the present moving past to future. Which physics codifies as measures of duration. Yet 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.
Is that really that difficult to think through and I can fill out all the details, like different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism. Or that time is asymmetric, because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction.
Yet it's safe to say, raising this argument has me banned from a fair number of physics sites. They are not giving up on block time.
I would also point out that if space were to expand, the speed of light would have to increase, in order to remain constant. Our current cosmological theory manages to extract two metrics of space from the speed and spectrum of the same light. That really is nonsense, yet the usual response is to drop the conversation.
Consider that energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.
So the energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated coalesce and dissolve, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.
Yet all the physics theorizing assumes everything is information.
Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive system processing the energy, the nervous system sorting the information and the circulation system as feedback between them.
Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.
I'm sure none of this fits in any of the categories, but how many patches can the current models hold, before some generation of theorists actually rebel?
What happens, as the Webb keeps finding ever further and older galaxies? Is the edge of the universe mirrored? It makes as much sense as Inflation, Dark Matter, or Dark Energy.
