The mathematics and experimental data of QM and GR is sound and reliable. However, without a succinct and simple interpretation that unifies QM & GR, scientific and technological advancement has no where to go, which inevitably results in technological stagnation. The interpretation of the Michelson&Morley experiment was hasty and lacked wisdom. M&M only proved that the aether-medium is not a point-particle medium that the earth can travel through. But M&M failed to disprove the existence of other kinds of mediums; for example, a relativistic medium or a quantum-wave medium.
I will grant you that an aether-medium, by its very terminology, sounds metaphysical; I acknowledge that physicists don't like to deal with such open ended terminology. But there is an Occam's razor way to interpret QM and GR that simplifies everything. Allow me two assumptions.
1. An aether medium has to reproduce ALL experimental results (which seems reasonable).
2. Gravity, GR, the Standard Model (and whatever else exists) must be explainable with ONLY the aether medium interpretation.
What evidence is there that an aether medium exists at all? Answer: nature exists; that's easy to prove: punch a tree and see what happens. It takes more than a mathematical model to make particles and energy exist. Something has to transmit light and to make forces exist. Something has to transmit action-at-a-distance forces such as gravity and E&M.
An aether-medium has characteristics. First of all, it is a light bearing medium. GR and SR are derived from the observation that the speed of light is invariant for ALL observers. If the laws of motion were Galilean up to unlimited speeds, then the light (speed of light) would have no special significance. In fact, relativity should raise suspicions that some kind of medium exists; otherwise, Galilean motion would be observed.
Light is transmitted as waves of various frequencies. Coincidentally, quantum mechanics has waves (wave-functions) just as light has waves (electromagnetic energy). A quantum aether should be made out of waves.
Any takers?
I will grant you that an aether-medium, by its very terminology, sounds metaphysical; I acknowledge that physicists don't like to deal with such open ended terminology. But there is an Occam's razor way to interpret QM and GR that simplifies everything. Allow me two assumptions.
1. An aether medium has to reproduce ALL experimental results (which seems reasonable).
2. Gravity, GR, the Standard Model (and whatever else exists) must be explainable with ONLY the aether medium interpretation.
What evidence is there that an aether medium exists at all? Answer: nature exists; that's easy to prove: punch a tree and see what happens. It takes more than a mathematical model to make particles and energy exist. Something has to transmit light and to make forces exist. Something has to transmit action-at-a-distance forces such as gravity and E&M.
An aether-medium has characteristics. First of all, it is a light bearing medium. GR and SR are derived from the observation that the speed of light is invariant for ALL observers. If the laws of motion were Galilean up to unlimited speeds, then the light (speed of light) would have no special significance. In fact, relativity should raise suspicions that some kind of medium exists; otherwise, Galilean motion would be observed.
Light is transmitted as waves of various frequencies. Coincidentally, quantum mechanics has waves (wave-functions) just as light has waves (electromagnetic energy). A quantum aether should be made out of waves.
Any takers?