If we suppose that the universe is an expanding wave from a central point in a five dimensional spacetime, with four dimensions of space, then the present can simply be assumed to be the very front of the wave’s light cone and the past all the points in the interior of that cone. In that case, you don’t need to define many different waves of matter at many different speeds. You…

Time may be a wave moving in a fifth dimension and we are the front
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