The Ether Dispute: Revisiting Einstein's Theory That Space Is a Physical Substance

by Richard J. Wilson, J.D.

There is an unresolved dispute over the physical nature of space. It occurs because of what Bacon called our “dull and deceptive human senses”. On one hand, space appears empty. That led Biblical and modern cosmologists to conclude that space is an “empty vacuum”. But, when astrophysicists from Newton to Einstein studied space, they found that it exhibits physical behaviors (i.e., it carries light and heat). That led astrophysicists to conclude that space is an invisible substance...