OK. Let me back up and give you the background for this whole idea. This whole thing started because I was sick of seeing crap on TV about dark matter and dark energy. I fought it for months, but they just kept putting it out there. So I decided to accept it as a possibility, if only to disprove it. As a skeptic, I had to do it.
So I thought about how these two concepts fit into our universe, how it meant that space isn't an empty vacuum, and how they fit in with the forces. All I could come up with is that light matter and energy are mutually exclusive from dark matter and energy, coalescing like oil in water. At the same time, there had to be an attraction-repulsion relationship occurring between light energy and light matter, as well as dark energy and dark matter. They also must somehow interact with each other, which is where this "fourth dimension" occurs. And that was the key.
If gravity is space pushing down, then it stands to reason that there is something pushing that space down -- dark matter. If gravity is a force of attraction, then there must be an opposition occurring elsewhere -- dark energy. It also stands to reason that light matter opposes dark matter in a similar fashion, which would account for planetary orbits and the fact that there are several stars orbiting a super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy, but not falling in.
There is a balancing point between dark and light, and our four forces are the results of this interaction. I drew a picture, and it looks like this...
The names and symbols, if you can see them, are merely representational, and in no way describe what these "states" and "forces" might actually be. It's just an analogy. This idea also led me to imagine how this universe must have looked before the big bang...
Again, it is merely a representation. Four dimensional imagery is impossible to represent two dimensionally without lines getting in the way.
So in essence, the universe itself looks like this now...
...where dark and light are in opposing states or phases or whatever, and their individual interactions account for the universe we see, whereas their mutually excluding interactions account for the forces.
Now, somewhere along the way, the concept of light started creeping in. My belief that the speed of light is not constant (directly related to my belief in the nonexistence of time), and my initial thought led me to a quantum theory-based idea. Photons of light are energy "packets" travelling through space, being affected by the gravity cones of strings.
Quantum gravity causes a particle to behave as a wave. Perhaps I was incorrect. It occurred to me that if light can be so affected by gravity (i.e. the interaction between dark matter and light matter), then we can't possibly know how fast it can really go. Light appears to travel in a straight line through space, but we know that it bends around stars and can even be trapped by a very dense one.
It also occurred to me that in order for light to travel at a constant rate through space, it would have to cut through it somehow. So what explains it? Acceleration. Light travelling through a relatively dense "field of gravity" must speed up because it is travelling on a "plane" between light and dark matter. In layman's terms, gravity pushes it along like Gallagher opening a tube of toothpaste. But it's not really a force (gravity) acting on it. It's a lack of a force acting on it.
That's four dimensional thinking.
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