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{{Infobox article
| title       = Space-time is Aether I
| author      = [[Glenn Borchardt]]
| publication = ''The Scientific Worldview''
| date        = 2026-03-30
| domain      = Physics
| topics      = aether, Einstein, gravity, relativity
| url         = https://thescientificworldview.blogspot.com/2026/03/space-time-is-aether-i.html
| archive_url = https://web.archive.org/web/20260604024849/https://thescientificworldview.blogspot.com/2026/03/space-time-is-aether-i.html
| retrieved   = 2026-07-23
}}

'''"Space-time is Aether I"''' is an article by [[Glenn Borchardt]] published on 30 March 2026
on his blog ''[https://thescientificworldview.blogspot.com/ The Scientific Worldview]''. It is
the first of a two-part piece arguing that what relativity calls space-time is the
[[Aether|aether]] under a different name, and that physics abandoned the medium for
mathematical convenience rather than for empirical reasons.

Borchardt's case turns on Einstein's own retreat. He points out that Einstein publicly
recanted his denial of the aether in 1920 &mdash; allowing that "we may assume its existence
but not ascribe a definite state of motion to it" &mdash; and argues that mainstream physics
has quietly ignored the recantation ever since. In its place, he holds, the discipline adopted
perfectly empty space and then required a succession of ad hoc assumptions to keep light
behaving as a particle in a vacuum that offers nothing to carry it. He proposes instead an
"aetherosphere" of high-velocity aether particles accumulating around matter, producing
gravitational effects by collision, and cites the [[Sagnac Effect|Sagnac]] and de Sitter
results together with [[Edward Dowdye]]'s plasma-refraction account of starlight bending.

The article is part of Borchardt's broader argument that modern physics has become regressive,
substituting mathematical description for physical causation.

'''[https://thescientificworldview.blogspot.com/2026/03/space-time-is-aether-i.html Read the full article at ''The Scientific Worldview'' &rarr;]'''

==See also==
* [[Aether]]
* [[Glenn Borchardt]]
* [[Sagnac Effect]]

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