Hi SM

Good point. Relativity is inescapeable. But that doesn't stop people from trying to try to "explain" it all over again.

Ever seen this crank's adverts at MSNBC?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1581126018/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/002-2130864-6555244?v=glance&s=books&vi=customer-reviews

...he, Mark McCutcheon, makes some BIG claims and attempts to reformulate the LOT. No more pesky weak and nuclear forces, quantum theory and so forth... heck he even has a go at the work equation.

Ether theorists generally set out on the same path of "reformation", and cock-up utterly before they've left electrodynamics, let alone nuclear physics. But ether theories that retain GR's results have some value, because they're akin to string, spinor, spin-network and weave theories that try to give space-time "substance".

Adam