I wasn't laying claim to pursuing the concept of an aether but i was simply stating i think its dismissal as a means of support to Special Relativity was made a little redundant in light of what vague descriptions we had of this "eather" beforehand .
Well in the definition of Newton of the concept he described it as a ''dimensionless medium" so how they came to the assumption of it being rigid and stationary has me confused. I can see how Newtonian physics demands a rigid stationary body, but then again, all observations require such.
When this experiment was used to support SR( having no need for a medium of propagation and interaction) and the concept of an aether was dismissed, there was an overall assumption made by those prominent at the time that the aether must be rigid and at rest.
Now that we know through the...