Jerry, in your opinion, I abide. ('Aether' you agree, or you don't!)
In the famous (or infamous, depending on your p.o.v.) Michelson-Morley
experiment of 1887 the existence of the aether was supposedly disproved.
According to the best minds of the those days, using the parameters of the
experiment, a fringe-shift should hve been observeable if the aether existed.
But why should this be so? The aether is fine-matter (almost more fine and
subtle than we can imagine). One wouldn't attempt to weigh a flea using a
truck scale, would she? I admit, this is quite a clumsy analogy, but you get
the point, don't you?
To prove (or disprove) the existence of something as fine as the aether, we
need to come up with much better experiments--and much better measuring
devices.
JC Snooky