None of this is correct. It comes all tantalizingly close, yet the concepts are overblown. The truth about time is best understood by examining the subatomic particles and seeing what they are doing. They are not behaving the same way and a single idea about time is then automatically incorrect.
Not the facts are incorrect, the human brain organizing them is.
Time is an expression of matter, so when matter is not behaving in a singular manner, then we have to find an intrinsic answer for time, too.
The neutrons and the protons are following a straight path for matter. With them, we have time for matter starting 13.8 billion years ago.
The electrons, however, are not following a straight path; their raison d'etre is that they are tied to the positive charges of the protons. They have no other reason being there except for neutralizing those positive charges.
That means that the electrons are dragged along on the time line, but they are themselves not of that time line.
Do you see it?
The electrons are not found in the same closed system as the neutrons and protons.
The single original closed system is proposed to have become two by expelling the neutrons and protons due to an inward process at the end of the prior state of the universe. The electrons are then from the remaining original closed system.
Newton would have approved the proposal:
What goes in, must come out. This setup predicts the behavior we see with the outbound results for matter. As such, it is scientifically solid as a theory. Also, with all matter moving outwardly away, we know that we are looking at results and that we are not looking at the original. That is another scientific fact that there was a prior state. Matter is in no way the original.
The Big Whisper proposal is that there was an accident because the inward motion did not stop. Energy got damaged, but only a small part of all energy. That damaged energy became neutrons and protons. The electrons had to be pulled in from the remainder to neutralize the positive charges of the protons.
Damaged energy plus pulled-in undamaged energy. That’s matter.
Energy does not get lost, so we can place a 1 for all energy in the prior state and a 1 for all energy after the fundamental change occurred.
1 + x = 1
And x as the event that declares the fundamental change should be obvious immediately: x = 0.
1 + 0 = 1
The beauty is of course that this particular zero is not our common zero of an unimportant empty nothing. This zero represents fundamental change. The original closed system produced something that was a fundamental departure from what existed before; separation among the original close system.
Where first there was 1, now there are two positions combined still 1, but each pointing at the other as not-part of their system. A full separation while no laws were broken.
Back to the time line because we have neutrons and protons following time as we all commonly agree on, but the electrons are not from that reality. They hop along in as far as they can.
From our own human experience, we can envision this as the reason we sleep one third of our life time: the electrons cannot follow that path without having to reset themselves.
Or: where neutrons and protons follow a path of past-to-future, electrons only operate in the now. That means that their being pulled along in this material framework causes them to adjust constantly.
"Two closed systems, not one."
https://fred-rick.medium.com/two-closed-systems-not-one-3d66da5b8dff
Time is a phenomenon, it is real, but it is not a something. It is expressed through the presence of something else: matter.
Time expressed through the presence of energy only, as existed prior to the arrival of matter, would be harder for us to recognize. It is there, it is omnipresent, and like Cronus it may have ruled that reality by turning itself on and off at will — swallowing every baby that was produced. But when Zeus came around, Cronus got jailed and is now captivated in a solid material setting that is based on two distinct pathways.
