I don't have an issue with the M&M experiment disproving any etheric bias in a "SPATIAL" direction but think Lorentzian contraction and time dilation are evidence of an etheric river of virtual particles intersecting our 3d plane from a perpendicular dimension at a velocity we as chalkboard figures can only experience as C, In our 3D plane we can only remotely observe the effect of dilation by comparing objects in vastly different inertial frames. My posit is that VP don't pop into and out of existence so much as they grow into the present from the future and then shrink into the past and are responsible for the normally unexploitable force that moves gas randomly in all directions. Casimir plates by their geometry aggregate and segregate these forces from below the plank scale up into the nano scale while restricting gas motion to 2d such that the perpendicular forces the VP exert on the gas are no longer divided equally between 3 spatial axii and therefore is no longer random motion. becoming exploitable to generate heat or if driven in reverse to exert force on the ether for propulsion.
Fran
