It sure would. Sounds like you've been plugged into the Krell machine again ;-)

When I puzzled it out, it began with the realization that the term "speed of light" is misleading, because it puts the cart before the horse. It happens that photons, being massless, "want" to move just as fast as they can. But it turns out that the universe has a speed limit, and that's c, and it limits how fast the photons can move. And everything else, too.

But then Einstein questioned what we mean by "move" and "speed" with all that stuff about frames of reference and how they relate to each other. That's relativity for you: It's all relative to where you're standing.

There's a lot to that, but my next epiphany came from the reading the classic conundrum of relativity: If two starships are approaching each other head-on, each one traveling at c, what's their relative velocity?

Common sense would tell you that it's 2c, and the story wouldn't be interesting if common sense were correct, and I'd just trail off here. But the answer is just c, and for me the key to understanding the answer is that c is, to paraphrase what you said, the rate at which information propagates in the universe. You simply can't know about that oncoming starship any faster than c. It's as if the universe "edits" reality to make sure that laws like c are never perceived to be broken.

Here's one I'll bet the Krell didn't know. It's lately been theorized that the universe is a gigantic quantum computer, and the problem that it's computing is itself. The universe is a computer, and c is it's clock rate. The universe's CPU can't work any faster, and just like a human video game that overloads its CPU with fast action, the action is scaled back to fit when it hits the walls like c. The universe simply can't handle the scenario of two starships rushing at each other headlong at c, so it cheats and slows down the action so that everything fits.

Cue the theremin music...