Aether Definition and 54 Threads

If a hypothetical aether contained positive and negative electric charges, then a "local" electric field could exist between a proton and one of the charges.If the aether also contained magnetic charges and the proton had a small magnetic charge of its own, then the proton, like a photon...

Can someone explain aether to me in depth? I hear talk about it, and feel rediculous not knowing what they're talking about.

I have had this question nagging at me and making me lose sleep for over a year now, and I can't find the answer anywhere. Hopefully someone here (or at the other physics forum I got to) can help. OK. Let me just preface the question with some information. If you know me through my posts...

De Broglie experiement and an old hypothesis revisted: There is another possibility too that if it's something in the vacuum then passing one side of a magnet over the side of the apparatus would create very odd distributions. It is possible that the universe is scattered throught with rogue...