Aether and Gravitation

The author proposes a revised theory of the aether as an atomic, gravitating medium endowed with weight, elasticity, density, inertia, and compressibility, arguing that it must obey the same properties as ordinary matter. He contends that this model reconciles light, heat, electricity, and magnetism with experiments showing radiation pressure and supplies a physical basis for Maxwellian lines of force and electro-kinetic energy. By applying the idea to Newton's and Kepler's laws, the work treats centripetal and centrifugal effects as outcomes of complementary attractive and repulsive influences and uses the theory to explain solar and stellar phenomena. It closes by suggesting a unified electric-aether conception of matter.