Tejinder,
Sorry about that. You give a very dense and logical description of the relationship between "things" and laws. I think there are a few issues which might frame this relationship from a different perspective.
Because our thoughta are flashes of perception, we think of time as a narrative dimension, with events strung along it, separated by intervals of duration, thus assume duration is this underlaying dimension.
The reality though is that instead of the present "moving" from past to future, it is change turning future to past, as in tomorrow becomes yesterday because the earth turns. So duration is simply the state of the present, as events coalesce and dissolve.
Reality might be considered a dichotomy of energy and form. Energy manifests form and form defines energy.
Since energy is dynamic and conserved, it is always and only present, but changing form. So energy goes past to future, while form goes future to past. Pushing against and feeding back on each other.
As biological organisms, we evolved a central nervous system to process form/information and the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems to process energy.
Think in terms of a factory; The product goes start to finish, being in the future, to being in the past, while the production line points the other way, consuming material and expelling product, onto the future, shedding the past. Life is similar. Individuals go birth to death, being in the future to being in the past, while the species goes the other direction, shedding old generations and moving onto new ones.
So to my point about thought and consciousness, as consciousness goes past to future thoughts, while thoughts, these forms our consciousness take, go future to past.
Which gets around to things and laws as top down framing devices, of this bottom up dynamic that produces them. In the void, there is no structure and so no laws needed to define it, but as soon as there is that original fluctuation of energy, then properties like waves, frequencies, amplitudes, limits, interaction, etc all start to rise and create definitions to the energy.
Since our minds are designed to extract information, we are constantly following the trail created through this dynamical process, thinking there must be some final end, goal, nirvana, etc. but when we think we found an end or goal, it just turns out to be a cresting wave and we get caught up in the undertow.
This is because our minds are reductionist, but nature is thermodynamic.
Think in terms of a galaxy; Energy is radiating out, as mass falls in and it is one big cosmic convection cycle.
Society is the same way. We have essential social and biological energies pushing out and upward, as the civiil and cultural forms push back down, giving it structure and form. Like youth pushing out, until it crests, then age pushing down, giving signal to the noise. Then it cracks open and repeats.
