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It's basically Occam's Razor to prefer SR over an ether theory.

@Jim I agree with you, and the fact that the assumptions of GR are very elegant, and that thinking of the ether this way is reminiscent of Ptolemy's epicycles situation. But I'll see if I can make a theory of the ether that can explain all measurements. That way, science cannot invalidate it, so it's left to philosophy. lol

I have a question about the ether: could not there exist a luminiferous ether which swirls around the sun (in elliptic fashion with the earth) kind of like how Descartes explained it? This way the results of the Michelson-Morley experiment is not evidence against its existence, provided the torque between the closest side of the earth to the sun and the farthest side is a very, very small.

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