>>13088706The question is not so much whether the aether exists, but whether the aether's model of light emission is correct. There are basically three possibilities:
1) The observed speed of light depends on the speed of the source and the observer <---"ballistic" emission theory
2) The observed speed of light depends on the speed of the observer, but not the source <---this is the aether emission theory, same as acoustics
3) The observed speed of light does not depend on the speed of the source or the observer <---relativity
#1 is not supported by observation or experiment
#2 is supported by observation and experiment
#3 is the view that won't get you called a crank
https://vixra.org/abs/2103.0149