Eckard,
In "Time Reborn" Lee Smolin raises the question of "meta-law." Problem of the nature of the "laws of nature" and the nature of "fundamental physical constants" - it is a problem of understanding "meta-law" or "grasping" primordial ontological structure of the Universum, the structure of "meta-process" of nature ("process - in - themselves"). This is a question which has put Heraclitus - idea of the construction "the Beginning" and the "logos" as language and "meta-law" of nature. "Grasping" the construction of "perpetual process" of the Universum in the spirit of Heraclitus we can understand the nature of time. The fundamental error in the physicists that they have deprived Nature of its the ontological (structural) memory , and therefore the problem of understanding the nature of time.
Sincerely,
Vladimir