Can I extend the time dilation teaching analogy of the 2 moving mirrors and
the light bouncing between them to establish 45 degrees as the max
space-time vector that matter can achieve? Time only passes through our
reality once from the future to the past and doesn't bounce between mirrors.
My analogy would be a "carpet" of virtual particles passing through the
present at C. The future and past represent temporal boundaries that are
equivalent to the mirror boundaries but stationary - relative motion to
these stationary boundaries on the time axis requires acceleration to change
the angle of incidence between us and the "carpet" - the carpet still
bisects our reality at 90 degrees but as we approach C in our spatial
dimensions we are also able to traverse the carpet an equal amount inside 3D
pace (between our 2 temporal boundaries). I know that time dilation would
make observers on a spaceship approaching C unaware of their acceleration
but with each additional increase in acceleration the angle of incidence
with the virtual particles in the carpet also gets higher reducing the
amount of carpet bisecting the spaceship (slowing the ship through time
dilation relative to a stationary observer). At 45 degrees both the ship and
the carpet are moving at C bisecting each other.
