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The theory of relativity was inspired by the Maxwell-Lorentz theory of electromagnetism. The latter used an ether, and because this ether was interpreted as fixed to Newton’s “absolute” space, the observation of the “constancy of the speed of light” made absolute space impossible and, erroneously, with it also an ether. Now, the graviton gas theory revives the concept of ether. It derives its constituent from the point of contact of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, where Compton length and Schwarzschild radius plotted over mass intersect. As this constituent is also the boson of gravitation, it hence has the name “graviton”.

The graviton gas theory is a “theory of everything” in a different framework. It gives the physicist an intuitive understanding for the dynamics underneath the mathematics and provides a base for the next substantial step after the Standard Model of elementary particle physics.

The graviton gas is an updated ether. Its constituents are massless Planck volumes in constant movement with the speed of light. After the experimental confirmation of the theory of relativity, physics gave up on an ether. Nevertheless, Poincaré’s logic of 1889 still holds, “we care little whether the ether really exists, what matters to us is that everything happens as if it existed, and that this hypothesis is convenient for explaining the phenomena”. Einstein in 1920 added, “according to general relativity theory, a space without ether is unthinkable”.

While Einstein did not succeed in his vision to “gain a field theory for all physics by the generalization of the gravitational field”, the graviton gas theory not only reconstructs the fundamental theories of physics solely on the basis of its graviton gas, but derives laws that classical physics has to take as given. The small step beyond Einstein’s forty years of futile labor lies in separating sources and fields and distinguishing between substrate and field as the excitation of a substrate.

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