After watching a recent show on the Science Channel, I had one of those ah-ha moments for the way that time works – at least as I see it.  I think that the show was on to something but didn’t quite get to the root of how time and space work (in my opinion).  The most concerning to my mind was space and time travel.  I’ve never given much credit to time dilation or that time can be traveled in either direction at all.

I believe that I have finally thought of a way where this is possible and to lay out that scenario, we need to first set some theoretical ground rules.

1. The entire universe is made up of pixels evenly spaced out in three dimensions.  Picture a 3D array of dots – or pixels.  These dots are extremely close together.
2. Each pixel can be either empty or in a certain state of occupation.  If string theory is correct, that pixel would either be still or vibrating at a certain frequency that would relate to whatever type of matter was being represented by that pixel.  Think of a monitor where each pixel can either be off or some color of on.
3. There is a “Speed Of Transition” = the time that it takes for one pixel of space to transition from one state to another.
4. It is possible to traverse these pixels faster than the speed of transition

If all of these are true, while a person is still, all transition ticks are realized by the matter in the individual and he/she sees time passing at a “normal” rate.

A person in a ship that is traveling so fast that the matter in his/her body passes two or more pixels before the subsiquent transition tick will observe time at a slower rate relative to the stationary person.

The computational aspect of this should be pretty clear, now.  If a processor in a computer can only compute at, say, 1000 transitions per second (slow computer) and was monitoring something that could travel past 10 of it’s pixels before the next clock cycle, it would appear to the computer that it “jumped” from one pixel to the next, skipping 9 in between.  That’s 9 clock cycles that didn’t apply to that object that applied to all other objects that are stationary or moving much slower.  The matter in that object, in effect, aged 9 cycles fewer.

There is a lot more to expand upon in this theory but I think that this is enough for now.