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First off, your *perception* of time is totally unaltered by your speed. It is not your perception that is changing -- it is *time* that is changing. Most of us humans have a hard time accepting this, as we live in a low speed, low energy world. But experiment has proven time and again that relativatiy is a valid description of the universe. It predicts things for which we have no other explanation, and it does so very well.
How does a clock 'know' to change? The answer here is the speed of light. That is the speed limit. The first concept that is useful is that of 'proper time.' Any time measurement that is made in the reference frame of a particle is the longest measurement of time possible. But more importantly, you have banished relativity in you last paragraph, and that is you primary problem. There is no difference: you are moving, the particle is moving, *it simply does not matter in the least.* I can find another reference frame in which you are moving *and* the particle is moving. Your idea about what velocity is confused. To you, the particle is clicking of time slower. To the particle, you are clikcing off time to fast, to another observer, you would both be screwing it up. Bottom line: time is relative.
I suggest you check out a physics book on special relativaty, as I am not explaining it all that well, but there is no contradiction. This stuff has been subject to extreme scrutiny over the last 100 years. The math is not hard: you need to know algebra.
Did you know that GPS satelites would not work accurately with out relativity? Given their 24000 mph rel. velocity, and the bouncing signals, if you don't take relativity into account, over weeks you begin to get a drifts in the clocks on the satelines of a couple of seconds. Eventually, a plane crashes because the clocks are so badly out of sinc. For something as mundane as navigation, we need relativity. Go figure.
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