-----Original Message----- From: Roarty, Francis X > Is dark matter another label for "ether"
Possibly it is a different aspect of it. Too bad that you were not around to enjoy some of Frank Grimer's aether musings a few years back... He has a hierarchical aether theory that could fit in very well to the Rossi effect. The "beta-aether" would be comparable to your relativistic Casimir cavity and ZPE. Maybe Terry, who took over moderation of that Forum, has an abstract from Frank's theory to paste here. Spillover hydrogen would exist on the next lower hierarchical level - gamma aether, at least as I understand it, since it is picometer. Like many theories, Frank's makes more sense when you live with it a while and have an expert to explain how it fits - and understand the background from which it was derived - which is "concrete," in this case, so to speak. The most controversial element of it would be that the strength of materials is not due to valence bonding, as we normally assume, but for the most part is from the external aether itself. IOW a Casimir type of push gives everything its strength - and iron has high tensile strength due it better coupling interaction to that external force - not the chemical bonds. Jones
