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I accept the ether but I find it next to impossible to explain away solid planetary objects inside the ether. They rule each other out. It’s one or the other.
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Any particular reason for this stance?
Ah, I just noticed I left your question unanswered. Sorry to revive this dead post but no, I do not have a particular reason as to why I think this. Maybe I do not understand the ether exactly.
I only imagined something like a basketball doing circles in a pool underwater. 3rd law of motion, When a body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and in opposite direction of the first body. With the ether, I suppose, the planetary gravity is enough to overcome the resistance of the liquid state of the ether it is passing through. Or possibly, the electric charge of a planet creates a bubble around itself, and pushes the ether out of the way, like a mini force field. So technically, the planet never comes into contact with the ether, and that allows an unresisted path for the body of mass to travel through.
What about a planet that is revolving around the sun, like Neptune or Pluto, that spends most of its time way out in space. It may travel in an ovel or egg shaped path around the sun. As it is traveling further away from the sun, why does it not slow down. When it is returning, why does it not increase speed? Or maybe a comet that passes by every hundred years on its irregular, non circular path? I just find it curious that the speed of the planets and satellites