Once, there was Natural Philosophy. It has been divided into hard and soft science, which divided again into technology/theory and psychology/philosophy.
As physicists get closer to discerning the final structural elements, they approach the territory, like it or not, of philosophy.
The "absolute time" idea is on the right track - just modify it with a philosophical axiom:
This moment contains all that is.
Get rid of "time", replace it with the moment.
The moment is the quasi-duration in which forces become expressed in matter and the energies in matter are expressed as forces.
As Einstein intuited, matter becomes more matter if it moves fast enough to spread itself out (exist over a larger space) within the quasi-duration of the "moment". That which exists within the moment, persists.
(This is why the "moment" is also called "the moment of creation".)
Another axiom: What is, is and what isn't, isn't.
The fictional (when used other than as per its function - a placeholder for the power of the base) number "0" has got to go. "Zero" is on the other side - in the realm of "what isn't". Calculus has the right idea with it's approaching of what it almost respects as "limits". Non-zero mathematics will go a long way to clean up the fudges required in describing the small and the fast.
Matter is endlessly created from one arising which persists in the moment.
From here, the most all-encompassing philosophy (the philosopher's T-O-E) , Advaita (which is not well represented online) applies.
Advaita, with one-pointed focus means that all existence is the expression of one indivisible and perpetually undivided thing.
Advaita, expanded in implication means that things which appear as polar opposites will always, on closer examination, prove to be expressions of one indivisible thing.
Also implied: Once manifest as a thing which has polar expressions, neither polar appearance will ever be able to have ALL of the manifestation. (If the indivisible oneness of "what is" would have become something other that what it is)
A couple of dogmas (sorry, science, but you did develop some, and not all are true) have to go.
As mentioned, any regard for the 'reality' of Zero as an actual number which can be involved in mathematical operations.
Another is the dogma of a vacuum pump (or interstellar forces) being able to create actually "empty space". Advaita insists that within even the most thorough and absolute void, there is the persistence of dimension. As dimension is only knowable by observing the action of energy as it expresses in the movement of matter, there is likewise always some energy in the matter, and matter will always have some energy.
I have probably lost all physicists and philosophers at this point ... but including these understandings in physics can yield good explanations of:
why we have the appearance of increasingly accelerating expansion of the universe,
how all forms arise from the fundamental frequency/duration of the moment
and how all that is in existence - matter, energy, consciousness and information - can persist, all completely preserved through even cyclic recursions of condensation/integration to an apparent oneness (similar to the 'singularity' idea, but non-zero in all respects) and expansions through expression.
If physicists who know something of philosophy, particularly the Vedas and Advaita, get together with philosophers who know (not those who are lost in amazement at) something of geometry, mathematics and physics - well, we could, with a high degree of probability develop a good workable theory of ... well, not everything, but quite likely (Everything - 1)
Every idea of existence needs at least one miracle. A guiding god, a big bang, or something else to which the question "and that comes from where" applies. The challenge is to get that one miracle as small as possible - but never, ever zero ;)
