Hi Stephen, > (It just sets my teeth on edge when someone opens a discussion of this sort with a blanket assertion that SR is "internally inconsistent", which, thankfully, you didn't do.)
The Aether Physics Model stands on its own. It is not necessary for me to trash SR by pointing out its major flaws, which I can easily do. I find that people heavily invested in SR are unwilling to admit the simple and obvious flaws when I point them out. On the other hand, the Aether Physics Model solidly backs General Relativity. It derives the GR simplified field equation in terms of charges from first principles. Einstein's version of GR presents in terms of mass, and is a tortured process. But tortured or not, the concept that space-time interacts with matter is valid in both physics models. Dave
