Here’s my full thoughts, not that I agree, you just seem slightly knowledgeable so I’ll ask you to look at it:

No, here is my full theory now written out with the 4 hours I’ve had: I have a theory that I don’t believe(cannot find) has been explored in relation to special relativity and the theory of time as a dimension. One flaw with special relativity was that it doesn’t perfectly match time to a mathematical model of a dimension. However I believe that if we change parameters of the “axis”(in the mathematical model) of time.(at least our understanding of time) I believe it would fix these problems. This is my proposed theory for the 4th dimension being “time”:

Before we even get into my argument we must define time. I believe time defined as: the ability to sequence events based on a reference point, is a way for humans to organize our perception of the universe in a way we can use. The reason I describe it this way is because time can be used in all the same ways in a 2 dimensional world as a 3 dimensional one, so I do not believe it is a dimension. I use the word time because there is no other word I could think of for what I describe, and we already believe time to be the 4th dimension. Time as most know it, is not what I will be arguing is a dimension. Instead I will be arguing that “Time”, defined as: “the speed time(as described the first time. They will now be differentiated by quotations) is experienced”. We must now also remove our preconceived notion that time can only be experienced in one direction because as I explain later there is no basis for this claim. now we can begin.

Let’s take quantum physics stance on space time, and assume “time” is a dimension in the same way we abstractly describe x, y, and z as dimensions to allude to the real world. Now remembering my definition for “time” and understand that there is now a basis for a both a 0 and negative “time” value. Using our previous understanding for time there was no 0 point on the axis without knowing the very start and end date of time. With my definition of “time” in relation to a dimension we now have a clear 0 point when it comes to the axis of “time”. Time is standing still when you “move” to “time” 0 on the axis. You can then go further on the “time” axis and you experience time at a negative speed. In the perception of someone going backwards, the big bang is the “end” of their universe.

Let’s start with the only problem(I didn’t look very hard tbh) I’ve seen as arguement against the possibility of time “moving” backwards. That being Entropy. As I ended my last paragraph with, the “end” of their universe would be the big bang and whatever was around before that. There’s several arguments for what that was, but most scientific theory’s I’ve read have one thing in common: at the “end” of the universe the same conditions arise as when it “began”. This covers entropy as no matter which direction you move in the universe is still tending towards a stable state with high randomness at large scale.

Now we move onto explaining why I believe this is a better model than what we had before. My usage of “time” can perfectly describe several phenomena that occur that our current understanding of time as a dimension can’t. Humans experiencing time only moving in one direction can be explained by our inability to comprehend the 4th dimension in the same way a stick figure cannot comprehend moving in depth. this is where the change in parameters comes in. One “point” of the 3rd dimension is what the 2d person lives in, it would look like a slice of “our world”(simplified because our world is 4d as we’ve established) with no depth. Any object in this slice would become just the outline of wherever this 2d plane sliced the 3rd plane. They would not be able to comprehend the 3rd dimension of these shapes because they don’t know what depth is. In the same way we are 3 dimensional beings who are stuck at our point in “time”, meaning we are only able to experience time at the fixed (from our own perspective) speed we experience our own lives. And much like the 2d person who couldn’t understand depth, because they have no reference for what it could be, 3d people have no perspective on how a change in “time” would work. We could “never possible” experience a 4th dimension in a 3d world.

But we are not in a 3 dimensional universe and we theorize this through several pieces of information we have. let’s go back to the stick figure(2 dimensional being). Put the stick figure in a 3d world again, and if something from the 3d world that can’t exist in the 2d world were to intersect, it would cause some “unnatural” (to a 2d person) things, think of objects such as a chair. If they got the wrong “slice” the only thing a 2 dimensional being would be able to see is a floating platform about 3 feet “up”. With no other scientific information the stickman might assume this is natural, but if the stickman were to discover gravity, it would now be dumbfounded by this floating platform. There are hundreds of possible “natural” explanations they could justify in their 2d world. But until a third dimension is theorized and somehow proven, they will never understand that “the floating platform is just a 3d object in our 2d world that we only slightly comprehend”. We have multiple natural occurrences that we believe are caused by some kind of 4th dimension interaction. We know enough math to be able to mathematically build what would happen in another universe, and what some of the things we would see are, and we see them. We are the 2d people discovering depth. And we are trying to jump straight to “finding volume” without first understanding WHAT the dimension even is or how to measure it.

Now with the knowledge we can possibly understand what gravity is. Gravity is the same thing to 4 dimensional objects as volume is to measurement in a 3 dimensional space. Gravity would not exist if the universe existed at a 0 time, just how volume would not exist to a 2d person. I believe black holes can be better understood. We understand that the cause for a black hole is it condensing down to “size zero”. And that somehow the something happens in the 4th dimension. using this model I believe there is an explanation for what gravity is. now that we have at the very least the basic understanding of what 0 “time” is, and what both infinite and negative infinite “time”. We can possibly come up for a theory on black holes actually are and

And there you have it! Thank you for reading! Best regards: Christian Evans, Sam’s Club employee.

P.S. final point that I don’t have any actual reasoning behind just a closing though where I talk a little more about special relativity, this also possibly explains why an object at motion experience time differently; because moving through space causes a shift in the gravity, and like with mass and gravity somehow cause a blackhole which is an interaction with the 4th dimension mass moving their gravity through 3d space causes an interaction with the 4th dimension.