What is the etheric medium sought after by Michelson and Morley over 100 years ago?
Michaelson and Morley wasted their time looking for The ether because it's not something physical. The Aether is a property, it is not a substance. And this property we theorize with the use of another theory in the realm of mathematics called imaginary numbers. But the etheric medium which they hunted for to explain things like electromagnetic radiation is an oversimplification, namely a question that is too simple minded to evoke or invoke an answer. Instead, imagine that you fill up a cavity or a bowl with epoxy resin and you failed to shake out all of the bubbles before the epoxy resin solidified. And consider or imagine that each bubble is a celestial object such as a star or a planet and fill that bubble with a conductive medium such as the surface of that planet or star or any atmosphere that may hover above that surface. Now we have the possibility, not the probability, of a conductivity imparted to the surface of planets and stars and the semiconductivity of the atmosphere surrounding them. If we charge up this block of epoxy resin, the expression or I should say the measurement of the potential difference stored within that block will be determined by where you put your measuring points inside of which bubble do you place it and that will give you various charges all dependent upon where you put your probes. So the so-called medium that Michaelson and Morley were looking for is obviously right in front of our faces. It's called: empty space! But it's appreciated only because empty space is pocketed with celestial objects here and there so that conductivity or semiconductivity can occur and give us the perception of electricity which we could not appreciate or perceive from empty space alone.
So, I would not call this an electric universe because that's an understatement and an oversimplification. Instead, I would say that the universe is constructed using the principles of electrical engineering which incorporates electricity but subsumes it into a larger framework including the potentiality of empty space, because electricity is only appreciated at the local level: in the vicinity of the conductive and semiconductive mediums of solids, liquids, gases and plasmas.
The post, up above, is copied entirely from the following post at eevblog.com.
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