"𝙇𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮, 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙, 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛
𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙪𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙇𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩".
— John Milton, Paradise Lost.

"𝙎𝙢𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮:
𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡
𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙚𝙨, 𝙄𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙮 𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧
𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨."
— Virgil, Aeneid.

That is how a pilgrimage to regain the æther feels like. So many false glimmers of light, that ultimately prove to be dead ends.

But, one thing I have learned is that there is no point endlessly
debating the kinematics of special relativity or the geometry of general relativity, but instead as Gauss urged, to search for the keystone of electrodynamics:

Without a doubt, I would have made my investigations public long ago,

had it not been the case that at the point where I broke off, what I
considered to be the actual keystone was lacking, namely, the derivation
of the additional forces (which enter into the reciprocal action of
electrical particles at rest, if they are in relative motion) from the
action which is not instantaneous, but on the contrary (in a way
comparable to light) propagates itself in time. At the time, I did not
succeed; however, I recall enough of the investigation at the time, not
to remain wholly without hope, that success could perhaps be attained
later, although, if I remember correctly, with the subjective
conviction, that IT WOULD FIRST BE NECESSARY TO MAKE A CONSTRUCTIBLE REPRESENTATION OF THE WAY IN WHICH THE PROPAGATION OCCURS.

— Letter from C.F.Gauss to Wilhelm Weber, 19 March 1845

Maxwell paraphrases Gauss as:

We have seen that the mathematical expressions for electrodynamic

action led, in the mind of Gauss, to the conviction that A THEORY OF THE PROPAGATION OF ELECTRIC ACTION in time would be found to be the very
KEYSTONE OF ELECTRODYNAMICS.

—

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Treatise_on_Electricity_and_Magnetism/Part_IV/Chapter_XXIII

Einstein said "challenge accepted" and thought he discovered the
keystone of electrodynamics, which he published in his famous paper: "On
the electrodynamics of moving bodies".

The only problem seems to be that he found the false keystone of electrodynamics.

Da Vinci Code: Silas discovers the false keystone: Job 38:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJGahtL3TzU

In an extremely surprising coincidence, this is what Job 38:11 says:

"𝕳𝖎𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖔 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖚 𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖊, 𝖇𝖚𝖙 𝖓𝖔
𝖋𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗: 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖙𝖍𝖞 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖉 𝖜𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖘
𝖇𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖞𝖊𝖉?"

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On 1/23/24 9:04 AM, Aether Regained wrote:

[...] a pilgrimage to regain the æther [...]

For that to get any consideration whatsoever, by people who matter (physicists), you must explain how aether induces quantum behavior in
light and atoms. Without that such a "pilgrimage" is hopeless.

Tom Roberts

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Tom Roberts:> On 1/23/24 9:04 AM, Aether Regained wrote:

[...] a pilgrimage to regain the æther [...]

For that to get any consideration whatsoever, by people who matter (physicists), you must explain how aether induces quantum behavior in
light and atoms. Without that such a "pilgrimage" is hopeless.

Tom Roberts

That is a formidable challenge. IIRC, both Schrödinger and Dirac spent considerable efforts on this endeavor, which they characterized as
spiritual and philosophical respectively. In the end, both pilgrims made
some progress, but were disappointed on not reaching the desired
destination.

However, they made it abundantly clear that the question of "𝐼𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛 æ𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟?" was still open. Maybe, by standing on the
shoulders of these giants, some more progress can be made.

If time permits, I'll dig up and post some of their very interesting observations on this issue.

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Ross Finlayson:> On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 10:22:26 AM UTC-8 wrote:

Turok though, Turok seemed pretty honest at least about problems

physics has, and without going all rabbit hole, which is from Alice in Wonderland where going down the rabbit hole means leaving reality and
traipsing into absurdity, or as from Through the Looking Glass and so on.

So, t'Hooft is still out in front. [But t.Hooft also rabbit holes

down his ladder.]


So, you are saying except for Turok and maybe t'Hooft, the rest have
gone cuckoo.

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