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David remembered that one of the reasons promoted for not being able to travel faster than the speed of light, indeed the reason why nothing was believed able to travel faster than the speed of light was that as an object approached the theoretical maximum speed it would attain infinitely large momentum. Clearly an object could not attain infinitely large momentum therefore it could not exceed the speed of light.
David’s theory regarding the fourth dimension and his supposition that in that dimension time is inert includes the idea that gravity, which continuously brings matter together, within the universe, is a product of the drag created by time as the universe decays within the fourth dimension.
Momentum is the product of velocity and mass and velocity is a product of speed and time.
It follows, therefore, that momentum is a product of mass, speed and time. If time in the fourth dimension is inert and only recordable as a product of the universe travelling through time, then as an object achieves an ever increasing velocity, increasing its momentum as its velocity increases, then the drag of time must also increase its mass to a point where the object is able to escape the reality of our universe.
Similarly, when mass reaches a sufficiently dense state it’s gravity grows and that increases the drag effect of time. When this time drag effect is at its greatest, recognised from within the universe as a black hole, we witness the transition point whereby matter leaves the universe to return to its natural state. The natural state of ‘inert time’, which can be defined as the norm in the fourth dimension.
Taking that point, and applying it to the mathematical prediction that with speed approaching that of light, matter achieves infinitely great momentum, then it seemed, to David, that as an object approached the speed of light in our universe it also approached a velocity sufficient to leave the universe.
In order that it leave the universe it has to have returned to the inert state of time that is proper to the fourth dimension which means that the time effect has once again increased the mass of the object to the point where it can leave the universe.
David realised that he had effectively defined two extremes of existence within our universe. One extreme is where sufficient mass is generated so that time can drag it out of the universe into the fourth dimension. The other is where sufficient speed is achieved so that matter acquires sufficient mass to move into the fourth dimension. Whichever way matter moved through the threshold leaving our universe, the effect would be the same; the universe would lose some of the matter believed to be missing by the scientists concerned with how the universe was formed.