John,
Though I may not understand what you're trying to say, I do understand the contradictions you promote:
"I say time is an effect of action, like temperature."
You can say it. It isn't true. If time were derivative of the action principle, action would have no meaning -- an event could not be differentiated from every other event. Just as a measure of temperature doesn't differentiate the motion of molecules; it is a measure of average motion.
"What we measure is action, like the frequency of waves. If I measure from one sunrise to another, what is more fundamental; the measure of duration, or the process of the earth spinning relative to the sun?"
Frequency is a measure of the number of cycles of a wave crest in an interval; it is not a measure of action. The number of sunrises is not a measure of action. The number of revolutions of the Earth is not a measure of action. Counting is not identical to action.
"With space, what we measure with distance, area, or volume, is aspects of space."
What does that even mean?
"Space is the vacuum across which light travels at C. When a distinct frame is accelerated, or gravitationally affected, the activity within this frame slows so the combination of the motion of the frame and the activity within it doesn't exceed C, in that larger vacuum."
How does one decide that one vacuum is smaller or larger than another vacuum? How can you even pretend that this makes sense?
"Since the slowing of quantum activity effectively shrinks the dimensionality of the frame, the speed of light, as measured in that frame, remains constant, since both the activity of the light and the spatial dimensions of the frame are affected equally."
Dude, you just described space contraction and time dilation in spacetime. You know, that thing that you deny exists.
"Just as with Big Bang Theory, that vacuum, as a constant, is taken for granted."
Except that the fluctuating quantum vacuum is hardly a constant, and the classical vacuum where the only constant is the speed of light, is affected by the observer's measure of relative motion.
