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My physics requires time to be ongoing everywhere at the same rate, except for gravitational slowing, and independent of other effects.

This is the kind of thinking that allows the programming of spacecraft operating millions of miles from Earth, to turn at the appropriate time, as they are passing a body in real time, to capture images to be sent to Earth at a later time, from stored instructions received at an earlier time.

We thus operate under the conception that time is passing there at the same rate it does here, and that all instructions have to be sent in advance, clocked down, and acted upon at the appropriate instant if the spacecraft, which is passing the body in question now, will act now to capture the image. We then learn of the success of our activities later.

Now, if we are ever to be able to operate outside of the constraints of time, and therefor space, we will have to be able to develop a means of knowing, with mathematical precision, (the proverbial ontological certitude), that the things we perceive in our imaginations are exactly as they are at a distance. The map then becomes the territory, and Science then becomes indistinguishable from Magic.