Everything physical is made up of just three fundamental things: a bit temporal, a bit spatial, and a bit of energy; the mix of the three variables makes the cake, or stew, as the case may be. Ever thought of a photon as a packet of energy existing in present time and linear space? Could an electron be a packet of energy existing in past time and linear space? Is magnetism the result of energy in present time or future time and planar space? Could we say gravity is energy in present time and volumetric space? [I can hear the poo pooing already! But if you consider that dimensional space, dimensional time, and energy are all that the big bang came to express, there just maybe continuums of spatial and temporal mixes that we have yet to even consider.]
HINT: when a light beam reaches your eye, or your measuring device, it arrives as a packet of the present of the source from whence it has left to arrive at some where/when. Did the bang start by expressing linear space, then planazr, then volumetric? Did time also go through staging, leaving continuum mixes of linear/past, linear/future, planr/present, planr past, planar/future, volumetric past, etc., to muddle about within the matrix of three variable reality as we experience it?... There may be others who do not experience reality the same limited way as we.
[I'm fond of saying the presence of the Angels is no further away than the length of a man's arm, or so it would seem when reading the Book of Daniel.]