Maybe this is too obvious to mention but from my colorful perspective, the past the present and the future ARE all coexisteting simultaneously. They were not a time cone or a linear sequence or a spiraling string.

As such the future was fighting for survival as well as the other forces seeking equilibrium from the changes the future could make.

This is much ado regarding a 6 second dream.

Since then I have even thought that virtual particles might be a way for the present to help reconcile and equalize the changes the future and past are making ....    too wierd....