MJA, your post should be edited to "observer position", not observer...
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Originally Posted by MJA  In the 1905 Einstein paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" he wrote: "The introduction of a 'light ether' will prove to be superfluous, inasmuch as the view to be developed here will not require "a space at absolute rest.' "
Newtonian mechanics was the belief in the absolute measure of nature. The ether prior to 1905 was considered a state of absolute rest. Einstein rewrote the Newtonian physics of absolute measure, absolute time, and absolute ether and found measure to be only relative to the observer[Position]. Quantum mechanics was born. I don't believe he discarded the ether, only the absolute measure of it.
Space is the unity of both fields and particles, or everything, don't you think?
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