Is the epola model an aether theory?

Prof Simhony is adamant that the epola model is not an aether theory. The long-sought-after aether had no mass and was continuous (fluid-like), such that motion through it would cause winds. In later times, some people have come to think that an aether ought to explain the nature of mass but this was not its original reason for being.

See faq 16 The epola is particulate, with real substance and much higher mass density than atomic matter (typically ~109 times greater). The epo-lattice is very open and not at all solid (it is like a vacuum) because the bond lengths exceed the radius of the electrons and positrons by some 50 times. We now know from the work of Rutherford that the nuclei and electrons of atomic matter are very rarefied.

Indeed, when scaled to match the radius of the nucleus with that of the Sun, an atom has with much larger distances between nucleus and electrons than those between Sun and planets and some thousands of times more separated than the epola particles. ... more.

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