> Hey Dave
>                       Any viable theory of gravity has to address the
> most dramatic displays of gravity in action, for example a supernova.
> So what is the _acting mechanism of causation_ whereby a massive star
> is crushed down to a black hole? That is to say, what property of the
> "aether" literally POWERS the gravity that powers the stellar collapse
> that that drives the fusion that rebounds as a SN blast, leaving
> behind the collapsed mass?
>
> This is the litmus test of any theory of gravity.
>
> And the same litmus test applies to far more energetic gravitational
> phenomena such as hypernovae and quasars. What property of the
> "aether" conveys this level of energy?
>
> And a related question - what accounts for the fact that there is _no
> perceptable upper limit to the amplitude of energy transmissible by EM
> radiation_?
>
> And why, pray tell, do "aetherists" still cling to the archaic and
> stigma-ridden term (aether / ether)? It provokes the Pavlovian
> response in the hearer to simply laugh at it and ridiclue it. If you
> want to be taken serious and intend to present a working model that
> answers the above 'litmus test', get rid of that scarlet-letter word
> fercrissakes. Strike it from the lexicon. Start out with an untainted,
> neutral term.. like the spatial medium. Then coin a term that
> adequately *defines* as well as describes the spatial medium in terms
> of the enormously energetic properties it displays.