Time is not a universal component, it is a measurement.

Time is a tool we use in order to understand now. Only now exists, nothing else does. No past. No Future. Only now.

Until science embraces this simple truth, all of the compiled understanding we've accumulated will be flawed.

Time is a rock splashing in the pond. The rock exists, and the pond exists. The ripples are mere effects of the rock meeting the water. They do not exist as entities of themselves, they are representations of the action between rock and pond. There is only now. There is only rock-and-pond.