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Eight Rules that Might Govern a Moving Universe

Rules regarding universal structure

1st rule: The greater universe is a 4-space filled with resting energy (light serves as the only frame of reference)
2nd rule: The observable universe is a 3-manifold moving through 4-space (perhaps in multiple ways: rotation, revolution, linear motiion, who knows).
3rd rule: Time is not a dimension, but a property belonging to the moving 3-manifold and the reconfiguration of light and matter on its surface. Time represents changes of state, not necessarily changes of position. Changes of position could occur in 4-space outside of the influence of time. Duration and time are not the same thing.

Rule regarding light interactions in the 3-manifold

4th rule: As the 3 manifold descends through the resting light, the light interacts with 4d particles of matter snagged on the manifold and causes ripples (a vector field) on the 3-manifold surface and associated motion in the 4d particles. Observers in the 3-manifold percieve light moving at c, but this is indicative of the motion of the manifold through the light.

Rules associated with the nature of fundamental matter:

5th rule: 4d particles of matter, snagged onto the 3-manifold, are dragged through 4-space whereby they acquire the property of mass.
6th rule: Motion of 4d particles through the 3-manifold surface leads to properties like chirality and charge, and presents the appearance of disparate localized fields (spinor fields).
7th rule: 4d particles bind together in 4-space (strong force) to form more massive particles of matter, or unbind in 4-space (weak force) during radioactive decay.

Rule associated with warping of the 3-manifold

8th rule: The drag (mass) of 4d particles exerts a pull on the 3-manifold, which distorts and warps its surface and leads to a property called gravity. Warping of the 3-manifold increases where matter accumulates. The warping of the 3-manifold leads to relativistic properties described by Einstein which are directly related to the 3-manifolds motion. Consequently we perceive that gravity propagates through space at c, but this is indicative of the motion of the 3-manifold, not of gravity waves.