The aether, in addition to behaving as super-fine gas is under maximum compression and is incompressible thus, has the ridged properties of a liquid crystal.
These so-called modern scientists all claim they seek the holy grail of unified field theory, they do not! They seek to bury what was experimentally proven in 1939 at the university of Paris and scream "LALALALALALAL I can't hear you over the sound of muh relativity".