Philip, This is interesting because the aether would conceiveably account for the permittivity of "free space." Also, I have been looking at the gravitational field decaying over time, in which case its behaviour could be likened to an inductor-capacitor-resistor circuit. The strongest evidence for the aether has always been, in my opinion, the fact that Maxwell derived c directly from it. I therefore agree with you: the aether cannot be regarded as any form of material medium. Neville. philip madsen <pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Correct Neville, and its just another support for my contention that you cannot call it a fluid, or substance or attribute to it any physical properties, such as wind, etc, which sent michelson, morley, einstein et al, down the wrong corridor. But perhaps Allen was speaking of synominousness, not being quite couragious enough to coin a new word...for the analogy of fluid viscoscity in the aether.. arrr. errr how about aetherage, or aethoricity... As I said, who knows how far science would have advanced had it chosen the aether for serious consideration .. rather than a hypothetical Newtonianism.. Philip. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dr. Neville Jones To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 7:31 AM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Aether effects Allen, If the aether has a viscosity, then why do celestial objects that move through the aether not slow down? Neville. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your freeaccount today.