They were for the Aether before they were against it before they were lately for it.
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They must have used a dipstick ........................
Regarding quantum fluid and the aether and God moving on the face of the waters:
Genesis:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
The First Day: Light
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
The Second Day: Firmament
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Depsite the “aether drag” experiments coming up negative, it has always seemed to me that there must be a medium of some kind out there, and I think that science continually predicts it.
For example, how are gravitational waves propagated if not through a medium? In this case, the medium is “space-time” itself, supposedly. Now space itself seems an odd medium, but if it can propagate waves, then what else can you call it? If space is a medium, and by definition, space fills all of space, then is that not a kind of “aether”?
How about vacuum fluctuations? What exactly is fluctuating if nothing is there? It seems if something is fluctuating, there must be a “something” to fluctuate, hence a medium.
Then there is the “cosmic microwave background radiation”, which is distributed throughout space. Relativity tells us that matter and energy are interchangeable, so why does a medium only have to be composed of matter? Wouldn’t a distribution of energy throughout the universe itself qualify as a medium?