

I don’t disagree with you. My point is simply that in the US right now there’s a concerted effort to keep the citizenry in a frenzy of angry finger pointing to distract us from the fact that we are being robbed blind by the “Epstein class”. The issues are real, but these are relatively small issues in comparison. Those folks pay actual money to keep us doing this shit and it works. In the US we have a desperate need to understand that this is engineered, and the engineers are laughing their asses off at the screaming rabble.

I think it sits in a place similar to where “the ether” used to sit. Similar because lots of ppl take that it is an actual known thing. Dissimilar b/c those who do work around it understand it’s more like, as you’ve found, stuff implied from all we’ve learned regarding physics to date. Without it the math kinda falls apart.
Then you might ask “well, could the math we use now actually be wrong?” I think the answer to that comes back around to “but the math we do have actually works really well; throwing that out is very hard to do”.
Personally I think it needs new naming; calling it anything other than a question adds bias that may end up wasting time.