I’ve got more of these, but this one kind stands on its own so I wanted jot it down in case anyone else can weigh in.

I know this is oversimplified and has no maths. But it seems obvious enough to consider an orbiting electron that someone should have disproved it already somewhere if it is wrong.

It’s is so simple it makes me wonder why this isn’t discussed or used to explain Special Relativity or Time Dilation. Has no one else stumbled on this before? Surely not. To non-experts it makes a lot more intuitive sense than “inertial frames of reference measure things differently”.

5- Slowing down of an atom’s electron could be achieved by slowing down time for the entire atom.

This seems like a surprisingly straightforward way to get to Time Dilation. And maybe is even consistent with the existing experimental evidence for time dilation?

3- An atom cannot be sped up to the speed of light while orbited by an electron. Because doing so would violate 1- as the electron would be travelling at c plus electron orbit speed
4- As an atom approaches the speed of light, the orbit velocity of the electron would need to slow down.

I stopped thinking about things as particles and more and more as waves. Maybe even beyond what is currently the norm in QM.
I later stumbled onto this:
1- Speed of light is the maximum velocity anything in the universe can travel
2- A hydrogen atom contains an electron which orbits its nucleus

Not sure if you saw this already. Sounds like you probably have, but just in case it could help lend weight to your perspective. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...