For quite some time now I am trying to understand Einstein's theory of relativity, but with all the videos I watched and articles I read on the subject none of the explanations fit into my system of understanding. I can say that I know the effects of relativity from acquiring the knowledge of their existence but I can't say that I understand them, and there is a big difference between knowing something and understanding it. For example I know that time is slowed for someone who is traveling at a speed close to the speed of light relative to someone who travels at a much lower speed, but I couldn't find an explanation on why is it so except for the space-time and frames of reference being relative and all which doesn't explain much to me. So I am trying to figure this out by myself. I am no physicist and I don't go deep into mathematics and formulas, I am trying to figure out the subject behind all the formulas from which all the math is extracted.

The first big confusion in the theory of relativity is time. Time isn't defined in a way that I can understand it's role in the theory. First there is the time that we perceive and then there is the relative time and actual time. I had to think of a way to define time and this is what I came up with:

First there is the time that we perceive and it seem to flow at the same rate regardless of our velocity, that is the person who travels close to the speed of light will feel or perceive the flow of time at the same rate as someone who is perceiving time on earth despite his actual time being slowed. I came to the conclusion that it is so because of something that I'd like to call the frequency of perception (I will elaborate on that later).

And then there is the actual time. Actual time is the thing that makes us and everything else age and experience the events of the universe. This is my definition of actual time and it's behavior: Actual time is registered in our universe whenever there is a change or a ripple in the flow of events, it is closely tight to movement and disposition in space and thus we might perceive our universe as space-time. To understand what is a change or a ripple in a flow of events we need to define the term "Event":

An "Event" is everything that happens during the process of a cause reaching and creating an effect.
During an event everything that happens creates many other causes that reach and create other effects and thus more events.
This process is forever ongoing in our universe and thus the flow of events. I will try to explain it with this graphic:

A= Cause
B= Effect

A A A (A-------->B)__Event_}
| | | |___________________} ---Flow of Events
(A-------->B)___Event______}



You can imagine the flow of events traveling like waves of information of what needs to happen next, and when it reaches a certain frame of reference or a sphere of space-time that point experiences the effects of actual time and what needs to happen happens. This wave of information reaching a reference point is what causes the ripple or change in the flow of events and registers time at that point. I like to think of this change or ripple as the perception of the universe of that certain point just like we perceive a certain thing. I think that we can assume that those waves of information travel at the speed of light which is also the speed of information. I think most events if not all of them are subject of movement in space, that is what happens during an event is that something moves in space.

Once I defined things this way it became pretty clear why time is slowed for someone who is traveling close to the speed of light. It takes certain waves of information more time to reach someone who is traveling close to their speed, the speed of light. Those certain waves are responsible for moving your time measuring clock and your biological clock and many other things that are governed by time, the Actual time. Thus time is registered slower for someone who travels close to the speed of light. For someone who travels much slower the waves reach them almost instantly and time isn't slowed for them. As long as you travel at a speed slower than the speed of light you still register actual time because the waves of information will still reach you eventually. Those waves of information will always come from the rear of the direction of movement just as the cause (The information of what needs to happen.) will always come before the effect. (What needs to happen happens at the reference point.) This is why time can also be relative, perhaps there are certain points in the universe where certain waves of information simply can't reach or the waves are slowed by something like gravity before they reach those points and time registered slower at those points.

This is all well and nice until the speed of light, but what happens at the speed of light and beyond? I thought about it and came to the conclusion that at the speed of light your point of reference does not register actual time because you travel at the same speed as the waves of information, however our universe still experiences your existence because your movement is a cause that alters the flow of events just like the movement of photons. You cannot perceive the universe while traveling at the speed of light because you do not register time and it stops your frequency of perception(I will get to it) just as it stops your clocks. Traveling at the speed of light makes you unconscious and stops aging. In other words at the speed of light you cannot perceive the universe however the universe can still perceive you.

Beyond the speed of light is beyond our universe if anyone was looking for the edge of the universe this is it. The edge is not in space because wherever is matter that is limited to the speed of light there will be our universe, and if you would to travel to the edge you would simply expand the universe even more which is basically what is happening to our universe according to science. The universe expands because matter that is bound to the speed of light travels to the edges. Our universe just like us does not perceive matter that travels beyond the speed of light but it does not mean that such matter doesn't exist, we just haven't found a way to measure and confirm it yet because all our measurement tools just like us bound to the speed of light and information.

Traveling at a speed greater than the speed of light would mean that you would be in a point where nothing happened yet (the waves of information didn't reach that point yet), which means you would be the only cause to what effect? Our known universe doesn't perceive you at a speed greater than the speed of light however an event still happened. What point will register time from this event? I am certain that going faster than the speed of light will not make you travel back in time because time is one directional as it is bound to the flow of events and an effect can't occur before the cause. But I can see from where this idea might have come. It is that you get to perceive the effect and then the cause reaching it with the wave of information creating a sort of rewind effect. I think that what would actually happen is that you will be in a higher dimension in the same universe where is the matter that travels faster than the speed of light and thus events on that dimension can occur faster than the speed of light. The perception on that higher dimension will be much different than the perception on our physical dimension that is bound to the speed of light.

How is it even possible to travel beyond the speed of light? We can see that the only matter that travels at the speed of light is matter without mass like photons. Because any amount of mass would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate only to the speed of light. Why can't we accelerate photons to a higher speed? First because even if it is possible we will not be able to perceive it nor will our universe and thus we won't be able to measure it. Second is that perhaps photons have some sort of energy just like mass that bounds them to the speed of light and any more acceleration would require an infinite amount of energy. We can see that to gain speed and thus reach dimensional limits we need to lose some sort of energy that bounds us to this universe in our case it is mass and it's equivalence.

I can tell for sure that the amount of dimensions is limited because there is a set amount of energetic properties that you can lose before you turn into nothingness. That is after you lose mass and it's equivalence you get to go to a higher dimension, there you lose another energetic property to go even higher and so on until you got no more energetic properties to lose because you are nothingness. Maybe those higher dimension are like the Mental and Astral plane that ancient wisdom talks about, and the matter that exists there isn't bound to the speed of light and we can't perceive it physically. However it is still here in our universe just in a higher dimension a non physical one, and we can perceive it in a non physical way. But that is going far into spirituality and metaphysics, I am trying to close the gap between them and modern science though.

Unlike a set amount of dimensions there is probably an infinite amount of parallel universes that are created during the flow of events a universe for every possible outcome in the flow of events. All the parallel universes would have the same amount of dimensions and the same universal rules. We can even claim that every point of reference is a parallel universe to another point of reference. Parallel universes may seem insignificant to our experience of the universe as it doesn't matter if we constantly step into a parallel universe with every event or treat a chain of events as one universe we still perceive only one chain of events, 1 set state. We can't even measure the amount of events that happen to us in every point of reference we can only divide them into groups with a clock device. During every clock tick aside from the event that moves the clock many other events occur, sometimes more sometimes less all relative to your point of reference. So it is pointless to measure the amount of parallel universes you jumped during every tick.

However parallel universes have significance in time travel. From relativity we can see that it is "relatively" easy to move forwards in time by accelerating to close to the speed of light and then decelerating back to slower speed returning to where you begun. Time would move slower for you while you travel fast and it will move faster at the point where you begun moving, so you would return to the "future". However moving back in time has many problems and paradoxes, and most of them are solved by parallel universes. Like if you happen to move back in time you would never meet yourself because you created a parallel universe where you never existed prior to your arrival from the previous success of moving back in time. Time is one directional as it is the register of events and it is not possible to move back in time in one dimension. However I believe time intersects differently in higher dimensions with other dimensions, that is a point in time in a higher dimension is not the same point in time in a lower dimension. If you would travel to a higher dimension by reaching a speed greater than the speed of light and then decelerated to the speed lower than the speed of light at what point of time would you be? To know how it intersects we need to understand how higher dimensions affect lower dimensions. I do believe that going back in time would require crossing dimensional limits. In any case successfully going back in time would not happen in the same universe or in one dimension.

My thoughts brought me pretty far I hope someone is still reading this

About science these days it is very interesting to see what can modern science learn from experiments such as particle acceleration at the LHC. I heard they found some new particles that exist for a very brief period of time. I don't know much about it but perhaps when those particles disappear they return to move faster than the speed of light and can no longer be perceived and the very collision is what slows them down from the higher dimensions.
Maybe the advance in quantum mechanics would shed more light on my theory of dimensional limits.

About the frequency of perception as promised: I do believe that we have a sort of a device in us that registers events just like time is registered in the universe. this device also replays those registered events at a certain frequency and this is our conscious experience. It is governed by actual time just like a clock. As time slows it also slows the register however it still replays everything that is registered at the same rate regardless of the amount of events registered. Think about how we live, we live in the past it takes time for the information to reach our senses, and then it takes more time to process the information in our brain before replaying it as our conscious experience. The information that reaches the senses and is processed in the brain is what what this device registers and replays. Those registered events create an internal flow of events that we experience and thus is the time that we experience as opposed to actual time in space-time.

A person who travels close to the speed of light will register less events than a person on earth in a certain amount of time at both points of reference. Because the person who travels fast will receive the waves of information more slowly than a person on earth who receives all of them almost instantly. However they both will claim that they felt time flowing at the same rate, that is because their device replays their registered events at the same rate regardless of actual time being slowed. And that is the frequency of perception. The universe just like us has a frequency of perception that is based on registered events and it replays the events into everything that is happening in the universe trough actual time. When you move closer to the speed of light you also shrink in the direction of movement perhaps this is how the universe perceives you, the faster you go the thiner is the perception of you until you can no longer be perceived.

Frequency of perception can also be slowed or increased. Notice that you feel time going slowly when you are bored. And time going fast when you are busy and exited. This is you increasing and decreasing the replay rate of your events or your frequency of perception. However only actual time is what makes you age and what makes everything happen. The universe doesn't care about how you perceive your time. If you are unconscious at a low speed you do not register and do not replay any events because your frequency of perception is stopped and you do not perceive the universe however you still receive the effects of actual time and the universe perceives you. If you travel at the speed of light you do not register or replay any events and thus do not perceive the universe however you also do not receive the effects of actual time and the universe doesn't perceive you (Though you still affect it). How would you perceive something at a speed greater than the speed of light? Perhaps just as now you simply have a device and senses for higher non physical non speed of light bound dimensions.

This is all very interesting to me I wish modern science would figure out this device and the frequency of perception in other words our consciousness, just like perhaps ancient civilizations did with what they called sorcery. And another branch of science would figure out higher dimensions and beyond the speed of light limits. If we would figure out what holds our consciousness and learn to transfer it to matter that isn't bound to the speed of light then we would be able to really travel the universe. Who knows maybe all of this is already possible through ancient wisdom and sorcery. It will take some time for science to reach it with it's ways. I do hope science will reach new limits and close the gap between spirituality and metaphysics.

I hope someone will bother to read and understand this I don't have many people with whom I can talk about it but it is really interesting. I tried to write it as organized as possible. I am hoping someone can correct me if I got something wrong or share their thoughts on the subject.