 Originally Posted by drewmandan
Since we're talking about the philosophy of science, we must be very careful and exact with our assertions. A physicist might casually say that gravity is "explained" by GR, but that's not technically correct. The actual statement is that gravity is explained with the assumption that masses bend spacetime. This may not be correct, in which case you will need to go back to the drawing board. But there is extremely strong and plentiful evidence correlating spacetime distortion with mass, so you can't plausibly argue that masses don't bend spacetime.
Now, there's the second and entirely separate question of how masses bend spacetime, and no one even claims to know the answer to that.
Actually, the current theory in the standard model relies on the existence of the Higgs Boson. I know that there are at least a handful of physicists who claim they know this theory to be correct, but only because they don't run into many people who can even attempt to dispute them.
 Originally Posted by ChaybaChayba
Dude, if the ether didn't exist, everything around you would simply collapse. Everything doesn't collapse, so it's dead obvious the ether exists. You're just brainwashed into believing into the biggest lie of the 20th century: vacuum.
If you would just stop being stubborn and start to logically think about the validity of vacuum yourself, you would come to the same conclusion. But, for some reason, you refuse to think and only brainlessly copy concepts from others.
Its my opinion that ether is only poor explanation for the truth, and is not that much different from the current explanation. The ether is born out of pure materialism and perhaps under that assumption (everything that is real must be made of something) it is accurate, but we've since learned that materialism isn't the whole truth of reality.
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