Based on real world data, the fraud called Einstein was forced back to at least some concept of an aether, but one that was amorphous enough to satisfy his pet ideologies, namely the flat-merged-space time of Special Relativity (1905); and the curved-space-time of General Theory of Relativity (1915). Notice that the ‘4D’ universe goes from flat to curved in 10 years. JWST observational data confirms it is flat and not expanding (future post on the hysterical-tortured maths they use to claim expansion).
Einstein’s philosophy, now the platform for modern physics and cosmology, meant that the aether was largely massless without particles, and immobile. This entailed it could not be a transmission or transduction agent - as false as a fighting sword made from paper and just as useless.
In 1923, Arthur Eddington, one of Einstein’s disciples, summarised the incoherency of the Relativity cult and its approach:
“If a substantial aether analogous to a material ocean exists, it must rigidify, as it were, a definite space; and whether the observer or whether nature pays any attention to that space or not, a fundamental separation of space and time must be there. Some would cut the knot by denying the aether altogether. We do not consider that desirable, or, so far as we can see, possible; but we do deny that the aether need have such properties as to separate space and time in the way supposed.”
Thanks Arthur. As a Relativist he admitted that space and time are not merged and the aether is real but for the sake of theory, let’s ignore it. The aether exists as an immobile or rigid medium (as Descartes believed), yet the leader of the Relativity cult (Einstotle) admitted that the aether might indeed be mobile and might indeed possess physical properties.
So, this is what passes for ‘The Science’. A melange of mish-mash, half baked ideas, endless changes, opinions, open-ended malleable equations, mutilated maths driven and shaped by philosophical need and imperative. Packaged and marketed as divine truth. No need for mechanical engineering or common sense. Try pouring water into a nothingness.
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