It seems to me, then, that an aetherist would have two options:
1) Contend that the MM experiment and subsequent confirmatory experiments
were poorly conducted and that more accurate experiments would detect the
aether (or that the experiments DID detect the aether and the scientists
missed it)
2) Theorize an additional effect to "hide" this property of the aether so
that we can't detect it, somehow.
Which tact do most aetherists take?
>
>MM-era understood Aether as underlying and permeating all space and is the
>Macroscopic version or view; this may be called superstructure. MM was badly
>flawed in its and limited in its approach and understanding of Aether
>theory and
>hence was used to discredit Aether Theory.
>
>ZPE allows one to see into the inherent energetic substructure or the
>Microscopic
>view that the Macroscopic version, superstructure, lies on top of.
>
>Samething, but the Aether has different properties than M-M originally
>thought, so
>it is different on the surface. The understanding of ZPE allows us a slightly
>different viewpoint of Aether characteristics and properties.
>
>There are several levels or positions of observation and perception of Aether.
>They must all eventually be totally internally consistent and ultimately
>unify.
>Example: The strong force and the weak force in atoms are said to be the same
>force under different conditions. The idea is that going from the
>microscopic to
>the macroscopic viewpoints you would see different types of interactions.
>
>Ask yourself what are some of the properties that you would have to have
>in order
>to have an underlying substructure that is energetic and still permeates all
>space?
I can't yet see any particular properties that it must have. For example,
the electric field is energetic and permeates all space (though it is very
weak in interstellar space), and the same is true for gravity. We can
postulate a new field and call it the aether and give it an energy, but
unless we also give it some properties, then the theory isn't worth
anything. So what properties do aetherists agree that the aether has,
aside from the fact that it represents a unique frame of reference that
light moves through?
Thanks for any responses.
-Peter
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