Gravity may in fact be misunderstood, and may not be a universal force at all, but rather the universal effect of the interaction between the subatomic nuclear forces of matter with a posited quantum-level wormhole matrix of space-time. Our theory builds on earlier research by physicists Wheeler, Holland, and Santini, and offers convincing and new explanations for the apparent faster-than-light speed expansion of our universe from the original singularity, Einstein's cosmological constant, dark matter and dark energy, as well as the real nature of quantum effects.