[Wick]

Let me explain how I think this theory is different by considering the interactions of a 4d particle snagged upon the surface of the 3-manifold. I'll do this in the only way I know how by reducing each of the dimensions by one. I apologize in advance for the length of this post.

Imagine a 3-dimensional loop of thread (this will be the 3d equivalent to my 4d particle). The loop intersects a plane (the 2d equivalent of the 3-manifold or hyperplane). Its initial intersection reveals a point particle, but as it continues to descend through the plane, two diverging point particles appear in the plane. If the loop were to pass completely through the plane, observers in the plane would observe the two "point particles" converging, merging into a single point and then disappearing from the plane completely.

If on the other hand the loop were constrained to maintain intersection with the plane, observers in the plane would always consider the loop to be two things (i.e. two point particles). They may come to the conclusion that the point particles were entangled or bound together in some inexplicable way, but they would not understand that the point particles were actually attached to one another in a higher space--that they are one thing.

Furthermore, if this loop of matter were to rotate through the surface of the plane (like a wheel, with one side passing up through the plane and the other side passing down through the plane), observers in the plane may not detect any motion at all. They may detect a property (say charge), suggesting that the "up" moving intersection has a positive charge, and the "down" moving intersection has a negative charge, but they would not associate charge with a kind of motion through the plane.

Similarly, if the loop were to twirl through the surface of the plane (like a snake, which having bitten its tail rotates inward toward the center of its circle, then downward and out), observers in the plane may not detect any motion here either. They may detect a property (say chirality), suggesting that the particle is left-handed or right handed, but they would not associate chirality with a kind of motion through the plane.

Finally, if one of the particles were to become an axis upon which the whole particle rotates through the plane, observers in the plane would detect motion in the "outer particle", but no motion in the "particle" which serves as the axis. If the motion were fast enough (and since this thought experiment is ours, we'll say that it is), observers in the plane may decide to describe this motion as a localized field.

These simple motions through the surface of the plane would be completely misunderstood by observers in the plane. They would be unable to comprehend the true nature of the particle's motion, because they are limited to observing a very small cross-section of the particle's whole. They see multiple particles where there is only one. They fail to see motion where motion is present. And when they detect motion, they misunderstand the nature of that motion.

Now lets imagine that in addition to the motions intrinsic to the particle, the plane itself begins to move or descend through 3-space. As it moves, the particle which had been weightless up until now, suddenly feels a pull through 3-space. Observers in the plane would not necessarily detect the motion of the plane. To adapt the words of Einstein, "if [the universe] falls freely [it] won't detect [its] own weight." But observers in the plane, would detect the property associate with the universal descent. All of the sudden, this particle (and all other particles intersecting the plane) would obtain a new property called mass. Another way of thinking of mass is drag.

In places where particles are gathered together, the drag would be greater and it would begin to pull "upward" on the fabric of the plane. The gathered particles would draw closer and "squish" together. As the upward pull on the plane continued, other particles, somewhat distant from the collection of attracted particles would find themselves nudging toward the group and the pull on the fabric would consequently increase. In places on the warping plane where particles are squished together and their intersection begins to twist, the particles begin to combine and transform. This warping of the plane describes gravity. Gravity is the pull exerted upon the hyperplane as a result of the drag of 3d matter through 3-space. The distortion of the plane would propagate through the plane at the velocity of the plane's descent--in this case c."

Now imagine that 3d (but ultra miniscule) particles of light at rest in 3-space (not all of which is constrained as matter to maintain intersection with the plane), begins to pass through the surface of the plane. Just as raindrops on the surface of water, the light strikes the surface of the plane and leaves behind a disturbance upon the surface of the plane (this describes the electromagnetic field). When light directly strikes a particle of matter (somehow the fine structure constant fits in here), it enters the plane (it is not emitted) using the particle as a "door", and begins moving through the surface of the plane until it finds a "door" out (it is not absorbed). In both cases the light energizes the matter it interacts with.

Here's where we go way out on the limb. A certain kind of organized, coherent light, which serves as the pattern for all organisms on the plane and their respective consciousness, establishes and maintains intersection with the plane when conditions are right (i.e. conception). These light patterns do not reveal themselves in the plane all at once, but serve as the pattern for procreative processes and subsequent development, infancy, adolescence, adulthood, old age and death. In a sense, the light pattern is like a cd in reverse, matter plays the light pattern from its first track through to the final track. Once played the light pattern is not "gone". The light pattern (and the consciousness associated with it) persists in 3-space.

I better stop there and permit others to comment if they wish to. Sorry for being long winded.