Mainstream scientists are just people like everyone else, and in the back of their heads they have some pretty wild ideas. There is nothing that hasn't been thought of over all these years imo, but it takes a while before wild ideas become mainstream.
Following the implications of the relatively recent experiments on light, Wick, I propose everything is made of light and there is an absolute hyperplane which disallows any possibility of motion or dimensions (of both time and space). So I can agree with your proposition of light always being at rest, but apparently for different reasons because you suggest time is not the same as motion whereas I suggest space is matter and time is the motion that produces mass from frame dragging or gravitational time dilation. In other words, "
Time is not a dimension, it is a property of motion through 4-space." is
fine from where I'm standing, Wick.
One point you might want to touch upon is the CD analogy which I interpret as suggestive of past and future events remaining existent, but I remember previously you saying that present cosmology implies past and present remains existent and that your theory differs from this so I'm confused about that one too. A relevant note pertaining to it I think is Enstein's indirect presumption of past and future being illusory points of reference; and applied to your analogy it seems that light (because it is at rest) is quantized incrementally as a 3-d hyperplane recreated through the 4-d space you propose. The reason I say this is because in message
3 you say: "What we see in the 3d universe is an exposed surface of each 4d pattern divided by time." So each dimension extension is divided by time and incrementally created from motion, essentially rendering observable reality as velocity- or time-dependent, is the way I understand it.
Is it possible according to your theory that all constants, and the 4-d space, can be connected to the absolute rest frame of light? This way I think we can unify QM and GR by reinstating Newton's absolute frame as a 4-d frame and quantize light quanta in Einstein's localized frames relative to the light constant. If I'm not mistaken, Einstein's original idea in forming his theories of Relativity is based on everything being relative to light constant.