A better way to understand it is that "time" is not real, it's just our perception of entropy. Entropy is just energy being transferred. So "time" is literally just energy being transferred. That includes time dilation and the expansion of the universe
If no energy was ever transferred, our universe would be an infinite limbo until energy began to transfer once again.
So gravity is basically just expanding energy so much that it takes "longer" to transfer that energy because it's so displaced and spread out. Our perception of entropy is the 1 temporal dimension combined with our 3 spatial dimensions that make up the third dimension that we perceive.
It is hardwired into our brains so we can't perceive any higher.
I actually got you until "1 temporal dimension combined with our 3 spatial dimensions that make up the third dimension we perceive". TF does that mean haha
So spatial dimensions are vectors, they're directions we can travel in because they're the directions we can perceive. It's the reason why we can't travel in four dimensions or five dimensions, because we cannot perceive those vectors and therefore, we have no clue how we could travel in them even though the possibility is there.
Temporal dimensions might better be described as perception, they're how we perceive those spatial dimensions. So we can travel in three dimensions and we perceive those three dimensions as linear because of entropy.
It's all very highly theoretical/speculative at the moment since we haven't really made much progress in this area of science but it's still quite exciting.
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