Since Modern Molecular Scientists have accepted the Michelson-Morley "experiment" as actual/factual, then we cannot discuss the aether as the field in which electro/magnetic/time forces happen.
After that, we just get weirder and weirder "scientific" speculation/explanations that have no bearing in reality. Like "dark matter" - matter that we cannot see, but it is everywhere. Or electricity being the flow of electrons.
It is almost like there is a force that wants humanity to stay scientifically stupid. Think ever more convoluted explanations for simple things that happen in nature. Making "science" so difficult to study, that most people will give up. And those who do not give up, go off in the wrong direction where they will discover nothing.
It is amazing how one experiment, that was barely an experiment and only tested one theory of how the aether worked, became the holy grail of Modern Molecular Science. But, it isn't really amazing, this was done by some powerful people that paid to have their "scientists" in the ivory towers accept it, and their "publishers" print it into all the text books.
The writing out of science of the existence of the aether has made our understanding of the world impossible. Here are some examples of how messed up it is:
Batteries lose electrons
Since their is no aether allowed, we believe that electricity is caused by electrons moving. A free electron jumps from one atoms to the next. At speeds approaching the speed of light. You know, millions, probably billions of atoms in your USB cable, electrons must move. Think about that.
Of course, each electron doesn't move that fast, but all the electrons in all the atoms jump over one. But, why would they do this? Because, of course there is a missing electron in an atom way over there. But, why would an electron who is quite comfortable where they are, jump over? The electron moves to fill a hole, but creates a hole behind it. So, why not jump back?
Batteries are considered to be cholk full of spare electrons. That is how it is "charged" All these electrons get stripped from all these copper atoms, and then get shoved into a battery.
Is this starting to sound silly?
The electrical fore across the aether explains this a lot easier. Explains how it moves and how fast it moves.
More photons than atoms
Photons flying around, being absorbed by surfaces and re-emitted are how we see, these "scientists" say.
And this is almost believable for something the size of a room, being lit by a lightbulb.
But, what about our sun? 93,000,000 miles away is sending out enough photons to be brighter than most any light bulb. That's a lot of photons. Now imagine that all the places around the sun, the same distance as we are, are getting bathed in that many photons. That is a LOT of photons. That isn't empty space, that is space filled up with photons.
Now, imagine a distant star. It is putting out enough photons for you to see, and your friend star gazing next to you to see it too. Calculate how many photons are required to fill all of space with enough photons that everyone at equal distances are able to see this same star. The number of photons is YUGE. Much bigger than Donald Trump.
And there are many, many stars that we see. All sending out photons.
Space is filled to the brim with photons that all fly in every direction and not affecting all the other photons passing through the same space. We are told that photons are not massless, but mostly massless, because some particle cannot exist without some mass. And if they are mostly massless, but you have trillions of them in any square meter of space, then don't we start having them effect each other?
These and many other questions should be asked of our modern science. But, they ignore them as if they do not exist.
In aether, a "photon" is a clump of force passing through the aether. Like a wave passes through water.
Magnets work by unicorn particles
Here is a truly spectacular example of "modern science" thinking.
How do magnets attract each other? Well, one shoots out a particle, and this particle, when it hits the other magnet, instead of pushing it away, pulls it closer. Yes, particles that hit something with a negative force. What kind of sorcery is this? Are these unicorn particles?
We have never captured these particles. They are like the elusive unicorn, which only exist in fairy tales, and the minds of modern scientists.
And why do these particles only affect other magnets or ferrous metals? What a strange particle. Do these particles know to only go after iron atoms?
Again, we must think about all these "magnetic anti-force particles" flying through the air. Everywhere near a fridge, there must be millions of these particles. Do they peter out after a short distance, and then turn into nothing? Or, are our blood cells being affected minutely every time we go to the fridge?
Again, with the aether this is phenomena is easily explained and understood. Instead of bending young scientific minds with strange tales of unicorn particles.
This is not the only paradigm in Modern Molecular Science that is their to make things harder / impossible to comprehend. They are all through our modern science.
Things that make our understanding of our world that we are studying completely messed up. Make us come to the wrong conclusions. Constrain our thinking so we can never find the correct path.
We could have perpetual motion machines making electricity continuously right now, except that most people with a high intelligence are told they cannot exist. If they cannot exist, why look for them? And so, the "Laws of Thermodynamics" have kept us from having the electricity that we need.
The same can be said for the aether. We cannot understand what Nikola Tesla was doing, because we wrote out the aether. How does Tesla's tower work? Well, if we did some studying of the aether, we would know. It is glaringly simple. But, after that, we would find out that it would not be a good idea to vibrate our world at those frequencies. And why should we, when we can build magnet motors that spin and provide us with abundant electricity. No need to pollute our aether space.
There are so many of these "things" in our modern science. Is it any wonder we haven't moved into the Star Trek era? Where are our flying cars? Well, we are told we can't have them, because of "science". However, they are really easy to make.
So, do we want to follow our Modern Molecular Science high (ivory tower) priests? Or do we want to learn about our world? This is really a hard choice for an up and coming scientists. Do they go to university and never work with the real world? Or do they go off on their own, never to have a job in the "scientific" fields?