NeoGravity Paper 4: The History of the Aether Concept

Part I · History · Paper 4 of 40

“Aether theories were never a single hypothesis. Nine mechanistically distinct families were proposed, and the 1887 experiment tested a property definitional for only two of them.”

The History of the Aether Concept: Nine Mechanistically Distinct Families and the Limits of a Blanket Refutation

Reporting the aether as disproven in 1887 is like reporting that vehicles were disproven because one design failed a crash test. This paper separates the nine families, shows what each claimed, and records why each actually fell: six independent refutations, not one.

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Author: John Salvatore Guagliardo
Series: Theory of NeoGravity & Ether Dynamics, Paper 4
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22110770
Archive: https://zenodo.org/records/22110770
Licence: Open access preprint. Not peer reviewed.