Is aether physics a real physics, is it scientifically accepted?

Question

why or why not. Doest the aether fill our entire galaxy, and what is it exactly.

Answer 1

Ether theories have been out of fashion for at least half a century. Many scientists are mistakenly convinced that the existence of an ether has been disproven. In fact, it has only been shown that we can't detect relative motion between ether and an observer by any of the methods that have been attempted. The formulas of general relativity work the same for all reference frames; there is no reason to suppose that they should work any different in the reference frame of the ether---unless you think the ether is a viscous fluid.

WMAP data indicate that our solar system has a proper motion of 386 km/sec relative to the CMB. That seems a pretty good guess as to what or motion might be relative to the ether.

I have my own theory about the ether. I believe it is a solid foamy structure; the mean bubble size of the foam is about 10^-35 meter across. Light is sheer waves; the ether wiggles from side to side as a photon passes. Particles are orbiting pairs or groups of sheer waves, held together by dark-energy pressure waves, which move many times faster than light.

Most ether theories predict that matter should drag the ether. My model predicts no ether dragging. Most ether theories say ether is an ultra-thin viscous fluid; my model says it is an ultra-dense, ultra-hard solid.

Answer 2

With current physics models there is no need for an aether.

Special relativity describes time as a dimension and the reason for the constant speed of light regardless of relative motion is because light does not translate the 4th temporal dimension, only spatial dimensions.

Thus there is no need for aether to describe why light travels at a constant speed regardless of the relative motion of the observer.

So physicists made use of Occam's razor.

Answer 3

Not for roughly one hundred years, ever since Einstein's special relativity.

Answer 4

Nope.  For a while, scientists thought that light waves propagated through the aether.  They now know that light is made of self-propagating electromagnetic waves that don't have to travel through any medium.  Aether theory WAS legitimate (if incorrect) physics for a while, but it's long outdated.