The quote above is startling. Thousand of interferometer experiments, which Einstein knew about, found no motion of the Earth, but they did detect an aether. A cogent (though probably incorrect) reason why no Earthly ‘translation effect’ (orbit) was found, could have been due to an ‘entrained aether’ which has ‘captured’ the Earth and moves with it, or a less encompassing ‘mobile’ aether (more likely), dynamic, not static which would move with, but not entrain the Earth.

In either case you would not be able to find the Earth’s velocity in space unless you were in the troposphere performing these same experiments. Yet this ‘great scientist’ did not comprehend such facts?

It bears repeating. Einstein was not a scientist, not a physicist, but just another philosopher. The quote above is proof of that. The aether exists in his opinion, but not really. It has no kinematic function, nor materiality. Einstein therefore needs to update his special theory (1905), with a gravitational medium in his general theory (1915) but not negate either.

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