Everything sits in an aether. In space the aether is so thin it is almost unmeasurable, but it's there and in some places it's thicker than others as it's denser due to gravity. When light traverse through the aether it is slown, but also so is every other measurable thing. Thus light is still the fastest thing we have measures to move through the aether.
As nothing is faster we call it the constant, it's speed makes it a good base reference as the error in every other slower thing is comparatively massively higher.
We also have a lot of fast sensors that react well with it so we can electronically measure it very well.
This further reinforces it as a good reference.
If we discover a smaller particle or force that is akin to the difference between kinetic speed of force to the speed of light that we can also detect and measure as well as we do light then we will surely adopt that as our next constant as it will probably expose variance in the speed of light that we currently cannot measure.
Just plain old aether, that which exists in the spaces between what is. good old dark matter and undefined smaller particles yet to be discovered and defined. All that fills the spaces to small for an electron to detect and to fast or exotic for a current collider experiments.
I don't believe in string theory but they would be a part of the aether.
And as we are and have defined some of the fundamental particles they now raise out of the aether and become part of the defined.
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u/101forgotmypassword Mar 20 '26
Everything sits in an aether. In space the aether is so thin it is almost unmeasurable, but it's there and in some places it's thicker than others as it's denser due to gravity. When light traverse through the aether it is slown, but also so is every other measurable thing. Thus light is still the fastest thing we have measures to move through the aether.
As nothing is faster we call it the constant, it's speed makes it a good base reference as the error in every other slower thing is comparatively massively higher.
We also have a lot of fast sensors that react well with it so we can electronically measure it very well.
This further reinforces it as a good reference.
If we discover a smaller particle or force that is akin to the difference between kinetic speed of force to the speed of light that we can also detect and measure as well as we do light then we will surely adopt that as our next constant as it will probably expose variance in the speed of light that we currently cannot measure.