Aether is Real! This can help to explain the 'Gravitational waves', detected by the LIGO.

Space is filled with a form of matter. This can help to explain starlight bending, gravitational lensing and even the"gravitational waves". It provides an atom its volume! In the atoms of a transparent medium, it acts as the transmission medium for light and slows down the light-speed (this slowing down causes refraction). Different wavelength photons have different level of slow down. This causes Dispersion. It diffracts light or particles when they pass through narrow edges! Diffraction pattern is the result of the combination of Refraction and Interference!
It causes the electron-positron pair production when sufficiently energetic photons interact with heavy atoms! (this is an example for the conversion of space-matter into ordinary matter). Its denser presence around the Sun causes Star-light bending (It is only the Refraction of light)! Its denser presence causes Gravitational lensing (it is also the Refraction of light)! Probably, its presence in space at a low density acts as the transmission medium for light! The volume expansion of nuclear matter into space-matter causes the release of nuclear energy! Mass defect is converted into space-matter. Advanced civilizations in the Universe are probably already aware of this matter!!
Probably, they are using this knowledge for their technological applications!! Now, this is the time for us to start exploring about it!! It will make us capable of controlling the nature to the NEXT LEVEL!!
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