as we all know, when you go fast, or near a black hole, your perception and experience of time slows down, and the universe around you moves in fast forward.
what does going fast have in common with being near gravity besides dilating time? i think if we can answer this question, than that is the key to understanding the actual fundamental mechanism of time.
for example, i believe that the whole concept and mechanism by which time exists can be described in terms of the zero point field and its interaction with matter. the only reason why i think this is because my shadow gravity theory.
i have some vague incomplete notion in my head that when you are near large amounts of gravity, you are interacting with fewer zero point field particles, because they are being blocked by that gravity. and when you move fast relative to something, you experience the zero point field particles in some way that is analogous to them being blocked by a black hole.
the picture i have is that we are all bathed in a sea of photons, gluons and gauge bosons and each time one of them touches one of the particles in the atoms that our body is composed of, that particle (or the whole atom) takes one quantum step forward in time. since the distribution of zero point field particles is supposedly uniform across the universe, or at least on earth, every atom would be hit at the same rate, and it would therefore appear that time is a universal constant, not an intermittent interaction like magnetism or momentum.
if you have uranium that emits 1 proton every minute, its not actually counting minutes, its counting the zero point field particles that hit it. when 5000 particles hit it, it releases a photon. if you put it near a large source of gravity or make it go near the speed of light, it will run into fewer than 5000 particles per minute, and will therefore emit protons at a slower rate than 1 per minute. it will appear as though time slowed down. the same goes for the neurons in our brains and the internal clocks in our cells.
lets say, in open space, you will be bombarded on your left side with 20 googleplex zpf particles and on your right with the same. for a total of 40 googolplex zpf particles, and this amount causes a normal passage of time.
shadow gravity says that when you are stationary 10 feet to the right of a neutron star, 20gplex particles hit your right, but only 500 hit your left because the star blocks them. the difference that causes the abnormal passage of time is the smaller number of zpf particles interacting with your matter.
so when you are going fast, could there be a similar lack of zpf particle interactions? when going to the right near the speed of light, it will take longer for you to encounter all of the photons that are trying to catch up with you from the left. but, seemingly counteracting that would be a larger number of photons hitting you from the right, since you are running into them.
perhaps the fact that you are moving in the opposite direction of this larger number of photons at such a greater speed means that they will all interact less often or somehow differently than would zero point field particles travelling at the normal relative speed. i mean, when stationary, the zpf particles will hit you at the speed of light. but when flying through space in the opposite direction of oncoming zpf particles, your velocity relative to the particle (as observed from a relatively motionless third party) is much faster than the speed of light. perhaps this increased speed prevents the particles from interacting in the way that causes the passage of time.
maybe theres something about the fact that observers on the spaceship would observe the oncoming particles to be moving at a speed much different than the third, motionless, observer would say the relative velocity is. however, at this point, my head spins.
this may sound weird because i am assuming the existence of a constant ether that science denies the existence of. but its there, the zero point field is clearly there and some scientists believe they have proven that inertia is a result of it. its influence is uncertain because of incomplete technology.
my god there is an idea that is so close. its on the tip of my brain. how can the michelson-morely experiment (the one that proved that light waves shot from earth travel at constant velocity through the ether, no matter which direction they are fired or what the velocity of the earth is) be explained by integrating shadow gravity into the theory of relativity. come on tminion, assume its true, its exercise for your brain.
more importantly, what does anybody say about the relationship between gravity-based time dilation and speed-based time dilation. because thats a pretty crazy weird thing to happen, and i dont see anything else in common between gravity and speed. dont tell me the freakinf fabric curves, thats not an explanation because you dont know what the fabric is.