What Aether actually is...

[Overmind]

Aether is the equivalent of the General Cosmic Field.
Since field lines decrease in intensity by range but have infinite range, at a specific point in space there's an average cosmic field (averaged from all cosmic sources). This can be summarized as the Aether described by Tesla (that wanted to prove it's existance), Einstein (that wanted to prove it does not exist) and others.
This Aether is the one that actually gives us the speed of light (that has the current measured speed in vacuum).
This can be proven experimentally: if you isolate light form the cosmic field, it will increase speed. This has already been tested in numerous tunneling experiments.

[gravityblock]

@Overmind and All:

I can't believe I am agreeing with you, but I think you are correct in saying that the aether is the equivalent of the general cosmic field.

I think the aether or the general cosmic field is made up of dark matter.  The dark matter is invisible and has mass, thus the reason for "dark" being the adjective for matter.  This aether or dark matter is what gives the galaxies it's extra mass and gravity to support the velocity of the galaxies.

Dark matter is invisible mass and attaches itself to the visible matter which is massless.  All of the particles predicted in the standard model were predicted to have 0 mass, but after they were observed it was found they do have mass.

This extended the standard model to predict the mass of the particles are due to the Higgs Boson, which is part of the Higgs Field.  The Higgs Boson attaches itself to the massless particles, giving them mass.  The Higgs field is also equivalent to the aether, general cosmic field, the vacuum of space, and dark matter.

So, it appears that the invisible dark matter is attracted to the visible matter, possibly due to them having opposite polarities, such as North and South.  Dark matter being North and matter being South or vice versa, thus they attract.  This is the reason why the dark matter reacts to gravity and is part of the galaxies mass.

When the dark matter is outside the influence of gravity, then the dark matter will repel each other since they have like poles, thus the expansion of the universe.  This explains the attraction force of gravity and the repulsion force for the expansion of the universe, etc.

Before we go any further, we need to define and make distinctions between this stuff to avoid confusion.  Invisible dark matter by itself is mass.  Visible matter by itself is matter.  When mass and matter are together or attached to each other, then this is correlated matter or CM for short.  Correlated means to have a relationship with each other, so I think this is a good choice.

I don't have this all figured out yet, but I believe this will lead to a unifying theory which unites gravity with the other known forces of the universe.

I would love to have a meaningful discussion on this.

Please let me know what you think,


GB

[Overmind]

Yes, that is correct. There are particles that theoretically have no mass, but they actually do.
We do not detect that mass because the average mass on a given time interval is zero. If the particle is t/2 matter and t/2 anti-matter (with t/2 external positive polarization and t/2 external negative polarization) then the measured average will always be zero, but the particle actually has a specific mass.
On top of that we have the uncertainty principle and the problem with the actual measurement. When you measure something, you actually measure something that's no longer like it was when you wanted to get the results for it.

Regarding the Unified Theory, I already have one. For something like that you must return to the basics of physics and realize where the mistakes have happened. For example, the Unified Theory could not include the strong and weak interactions not because someone did not find out how, but because they do not exist. There is strong interaction, no weird unknown force that keeps similar charged particles together. The true physical explanation for that is the filed overlap of the elementary vortices that for any particle. This can be demonstrated and exact calculations for each particle and charge have already been completed. The weak interaction is just a particular case of the strong interaction.
See the detailed picture below:
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/3109/strint.jpg

According to today's textbook opinion (course of  the field indicated with a in the image above) the  forces of repulsion between the individual protons increase further as the distance gets  smaller, to obtain immense values within  the nucleus. They theoretically had to be overcome by new and unknown nuclear forces. Therefore physicists assume the
hypothesis of a "strong interaction". But they are gravely mistaken. The answer to this open question is provided by the course of the field (b) for the proton, represented in the image. We see that the electric field at first indeed still increases if we approach the proton, but in the proximity it contrary to all expectations decreases again until it is zero. With that then also any force of repulsion has disappeared ! But the course of the field follows without compulsion from the  overlap of the three individual elementary vortex fields. The field direction in the z-direction even is reversed ! In this situation, in theory,
an electromagnetic force of attraction between two like charged protons can occur. We then conclude: A strong interaction doesn't exist at all. The usually given values for "range" and "strength" just represent a misinterpretation. The hatched drawn area marks the difference which is misinterpreted by current quantum physics. The model concept over and above that
answers another mysterious property of the proton. As an electrically charged particle with a spin it first of all should form a magnetic moment for reason of the rotating charge. But until now the measurable order of magnitude couldn't be explained.

If the inner positrons rotate around each other with oppositely pointing spin, then the magnetic field line is already closed within the particle and no effect in x or y-direction is observable from the outside. As pair they however still can rotate together around the z-axis and they'll do that. The overlapping electron for reason of its rotation of its own will likewise build up a magnetic dipole moment along its axis of rotation. It also will align its axis in the z-direction, so that now all three elementary vortices have one field axis. Being comparable to individually "elementary magnets" aligned  in the same direction they produce a triple magnetic moment. This is the explanation for the triple magnetic moment of the proton.

By disregarding the errors in current physics and specially quantum physics, one can get very far. Instead of a weird theory based on an assumption (that's usually based on incorrect/incomplete/inaccurate observations) we can have precise calculations that match the experiments and observations (if observations are possible) better then any current theory for any particle or physical phenomenon.

Unfortunately, most scientists today are too brain-washed and well programmed to study such things.
As N. Tesla correctly pointed out :

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

[czimborbryan]

I'm going to bend a few people out of shape on this one...


I did some thinking about this and have come to a conclusion based on very little knowledge of the subject and even less observation.

FYI- Time as used below is not referring to past present and future, but to the mechanical timing of movement.

The measurable effects of the aether are gravity/time and the light spectrum.  If the aether were to be absent, there would be no gravity, no time, no light, and perhaps no matter (because matter is composed of light).  The light waves are vibrations within the aether, which has a type of density and tension that can be measured by the strength of gravitational field.  Matter is produced when light waves collide in such a way that dramatically effects time (particle matter is similar to a black hole in time and gravity, but more stable and obviously less powerful...).  In other words, the waves seem to stick together and form a particle.  This could be why light is both a wave and a particle.

So in areas of low gravitational field, the aether is proportionally less dense as with time.  This is the tricky part; the speed of light has no constant.  In the areas of deep space that have low gravitational fields, light would travel through more space per second than in near-Earth gravity.  Some areas with a low enough density of the aether, light may come close to instantaneous projection or even nearing "time travel".  These areas in deep space could be  utilized for space travel.  The quickest way to travel from one point to another isn't a straight lines, but the path of least resistance through these areas of low gravity, even though the space covered could be millions light years more.

The aether allows for the existence of the measurable universe.  The reason why the aether can not be directly measurable is because it is an eternal constant and therefore can not be perceived.  However, the aether may demonstrate having a mass since it is proportional to gravitational field (I'm assuming it is proportional, but it may not be).

The aether may or may not be infinite; however, if it is not infinite, anything beyond the aether would not exist in a state of matter or energy perceivable to us.  It may be possible that other aether's exist which are beyond our aether that have dramatically different properties compared to our own, but they would be imperceivable and directly incompatible with matter and energy from our own aether.

The aether can not be broken, but strain on the aether produces vibrations or waves (light spectrum).  So, in an attempt to tear a whole in the aether, an enormous amount of light would be produced.


- Or something like that...

[Overmind]

A hole/blank in the aether could theoretically be obtained if one could perfectly isolate an area of space from any E-M (both Hertzian and Tesla forms) influence.
The only known attempts were the tunneling experiments. The created tunnels were so small that no wave could overlap inside of them so that's why FTL speeds were possible (the light's speed was no longer limited by the aetheric environment).