The easiest way in which I can explain the proposed medium, is that it is made up of 'virtual photons', this is in reality a new slant on an old theory because QED, QM and the Standard Theory have maintained for sometime now, that the medium is made up of
'virtual photons', i.e., they are the mediators of the electromagnetic force. The only difference is that while the 'virtual photons' discussed by QM have a known life - time (less than 10 [sup] -15[/sup] secs) and can thus have arbitrary energies, the 'virtual photons' of the gestalt theory have known energies (i.e., less than 10[sup]-19[/sup] eV ) and thus can have arbitrary life times (i.e., they can exist almost forever.) This follows from Heisenbergs uncertainty principle relating to time and energy:
$$
\Delta E\Delta t \geq \frac{1}{2}\hbar
$$
There is experimental proof that 'virtual photons' do exist as shown in the
Lamb Shift experiment , and that they are an integral part of atom structure and stability.
All scientific theories accept the existence of Conservation Laws, for instance QM and the Standard Theory, believe that light that was created during the Big Bang was (a) either absorbed by matter in the Universe or (b) that that light is still travelling through the Universe or exists as background cosmic radiation etc., So energy, like matter, can neither be created nor destroyed it changes from one form to another. Gestalt Theory holds that light created during the Big Bang occupied the entire Universe, it lent some of its energy towards the creation of matter, atoms, molecules etc., and later served as a medium through which matter aggregated into planets, stars, solar systems and galaxies, since it mediated the Gravitational force, so the theory does conserve energy.
In the gestalt Theory, the 'virtual photons' of the aether are randomly oriented until a real photon is emitted by an electron, at which time the 'virtual photons' along the line of propagation of the real photon form a line whose ends rest on infinity and the energy of the real photon travels 'intact' along this line of aligned virtual photons. However, in order to understand how this 'aether' works, you have to think of the manner in which energy travels along a line of linked condensors. Condensors store electrical energy. You remember those experiments that Benjamin Franklin did ? A line of condensors are connected together and the energy from the first condensor in the line travels along the linked condensors until it reaches the last condensor in line with its energy intact. The construction of the photon that I envisage, does in fact resemble a condensor, being composed of bands of electrical energy separated by a di-electric. This results in the formation of a solenoidal field around the photon, this construction, according to my thinking, explains: (a) how the photon keeps its energy intact over huge distances,(b) how it can possess both wave and particle like properties (c) how it is a particle of no mass (d) how it travels at the speed of light in a vacuum, the answer being that this is the maximum speed at which light (OR EMR) can travel along the lines of linked 'virtual photons' the direction of travel makes no difference. (f) How it can give up all of its energy at one time (g) how it is electrically neutral and so on.