Relativistic contortions revisited

Cam asks in another OP, 'For example, what is the mechanism acting to dilate time? How it works?'

https://able2know.org/topic/110967-14#post-6491841

I do have an idea, I call Relative Relativity. It's difficult to explain the apparent changes in a moving object, such as its evident change in mass or length, slowing of its clock, etc; explained by complex math but very unsatisfying to the intuition

Now, what follows is a gross oversimplification of my proposal, but suppose we're underestimating its velocity. For instance when it's appears to have neared c, its mass seems to have become enormous, its length looks as if shrunk to near zero, and its clock appears to have stopped. So suppose its velocity [and that of light] is actually much greater but, owing to our present inability to resolve certain paradoxes and contradictions involving time-at-a-distance we underestimate; actually the object is goin' many, many times v

Thus the observation, when we place a bigger object in its path, that it has 'way more destructive power than we'd otherwise expect. The reason it seems shorter, is that the light from the front and back of the speeding chunk is reaching us at the same instant; and we see its clock as stopped 'cause it's reaching its destination much quicker than we realize


I've proposed this at web sites more in the scientific realm, and though disagreeing, they understand what I'm sayin'. Still, I haven't been controverted. I think the main reason my theory seems overly convoluted and unlikely, is that it's rejected by 'common sense,' but then so is Al's

Actually when you consider it carefully you might find it very simple, in agreement with intuition, and neatly resolving, eg, the Twin Paradox as well as other still controversial aspects of present theory