
The so-called Great Disconnect – the puzzling absence of dark energy and dark matter effects within our solar system, contrasted with their dominant role at cosmic scales – has led to the hypothesis of a screened fifth force (Chameleon, Vainshtein mechanisms). This paper offers a reinterpretation of this discovery within the framework of the Stratified Temporal Network (RTS). It shows that the fifth force is not a new interaction, but the Fundamental Vibration of the Primary Network – the same substrate from which all forces emerge. Its apparent screening in dense regions (like our solar system) is a natural consequence of nodal coupling strength (J_ij) increasing with density, which thickens the inter‑slice membrane and makes local dynamics inert to external influences. In low‑density regions (intergalactic space), the membrane thins, and the same Vibration manifests freely as dark energy. Thus, the Great Disconnect is not an anomaly but a necessary property of a stratified, vibrating reality. RTS13 does not propose a new hypothesis; it provides a unifying language that bridges observational cosmology and a coherent theoretical framework.
