You are a very intelligent person, there is no doubt about that. But before I can appreacite what you are attempting to say, please explain what is your objection with the mainstream. You are writing lengthy posts, you have written one in philosophy section, very difficut read, so please briefly explain about your motivation point to push bound / unbound energy, light travel as dimension etc. I am getting a feeling (may be wrong) that origin's Pseudoscince remark is more to do with your post than the OP...
We all know from elementary physics that kinematically speaking, energy exists in both translational and rotational forms.
The old saw thought experiment of Einstein's in which he derived E=mc^2, a photon emitted at one end of a tubular spacecraft and completely absorbed at the other, was possibly the simplest example of how unbound energy can become bound, by being absorbed first by electrons in the absorbing wall.
An update of the experiment by Wheeler, using mirrors to derive the LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION works after a fashion, but a more important result missed by Wheeler's analysis is that the reflected beam of photons remain bound for any inertial reference frame, so that while the spacecraft doesn't accelerate, the photons emitted and reflected have been given inertia by the bound energy of the electrons in the spacecraft.
Those electrons are bound energy E=mc^2. The perfect rotation of the energy within them requires no time in order to rotate in every direction at once. Only the HIGGS FIELD may interact with fundamental particles like electrons to exchange energy between rotational and linear propagation modes. In this way, it causes the bending of light mentioned in the OP, and the time dilation associated with it, because the HIGGS FIELD IS THE ORIGIN AND ARROW OF TIME ITSELF. And of gravity too, of course.
All three dimensions of linear space are light travel time, and calculating space curvature from the most exotic geometry is identical to A WASTE OF TIME, and also exotic math and brainpower.
All of this idea was developed right here. My IQ is 135 (measured numerous times), on a good day. Alone, I am not capable of sourcing anything like this. Einstein deserves credit. So do Peter Higgs, Englert, Brout, Guralnik, Kibble, Hagen, and thousands of scientists at the LHC, for the discovery of Higgs, which makes it all possible to finally understand. Ancient Greece deserves some credit as well, but not as much as most mathematicians seem to believe.
Only the Higgs field and bound energy (and to a lesser extent, unbound energy) may impart inertia to bound and unbound energy, from which the field itself also derives inertia locally.
4 dimensional hybrids of Euclidean space in expressions containing the strong invariant speed of light have nothing at all to do with anything resembling inertia or an aether, time dilation or gravitation, but they have everything to do with miscalculated and erroneous ideas about absolute space and/or time and the curvature of something that is, for the most part, without inertia or especially an origin itself. We exist in a universe composed only of time and energy transfer events which interact via the Higgs field.
This could have been figured out from only E=mc^2 and a knowledge of the certainty of the existence of the Higss field, if certain theoreticians weren't so heavily invested in Ancient Greek philosophy and dreams of a geometry that doesn't exist other than in an absolute space that for everyone else died in 1905.
None of this explains charge, people, so get back to work and find out where that comes from. This time, you have a better head start.
