Book excerpt: Ether Plus Two takes one step back and ten steps forward. It takes old ether theory from a hundred years ago and adds positiveness and negativeness as dimensions of the universe. Ether Plus Two unifies electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Yet it does not stop there, it gives a clear description of time and matter and how it's intimately entwined with the unifying forces. Ether Plus Two solves the four problems with the Big Bang theory, why there is so little antimatter? How galaxies formed in so little time, why Big Bang background radiation is so uniform? And why the universe is so close to being neither open nor closed "flat." Ether Plus Two addresses how the universe began and how it could end. Ether Plus Two reopens the whole universe to exploration.