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Originally Posted by JAK  Can you briefly summarize the major paradigms with which your ideas are consistent as well as which ones are in conflict? |
AETHER
Following the Michelson Morley experiments on the speed of light the aether concept was abandoned. Special relativity was purported to disprove the existence of an underlying fabric despite Einstein's description that gravity was an effect caused by the bending of space. Einstein himself supported the view that there was an aether - the 'fabric of space'. Since then, with the exception of the standard model, much of physics has found itself in a bind due to the premature rejection of the concept. The MM experiment did not actually disprove its existence only that the view of the aether at that time was incorrect.
At least two major areas of current research support the existence of an aether though they tend to call it something different to avoid the ridicule of their peers. String theory is 'background dependent' - a euphemism for requiring an aether and gauge theory encompasses a similar concept.
My proposition is that reality is much easier to describe - and the description is more likely to be supportable - if it encompasses an aether.