from what I understand, time is a measurement of changes between changes. I don't think its an actual "force" in the universe, simply a measurement that humans are able to perceive and design machines around to take advantage of measuring differences.
if you take the theory of relativity into account, however, where "time" (or the amount of changes an object experiences) is relative to each object, then as an object moves at higher and higher velocities, it somehow experiences less changes than objects in the universe that are not moving as fast.
so somehow, by moving at a high velocity, you somehow experience less change than things moving at lower velocities. what if this is the universe's way of compensating for the distortion of space as objects move through it? what if, by moving, you bend space in a way that causes you to avoid a kind of "particle" that causes "micro-changes" that normally have lots of contact with objects that aren't moving as fast?