Welcome to the 47th Special Issue of the SHAPE Journal on the philosophy behind a new 'aether theory'.

The Substrate was an early assumption, and it certainly performed well in explaining many phenomena, but it could be neither detected nor studied in itself.

Certain phenomena, such as with the propagation of Light across seemingly empty Space, did infer that there would have to be some sort of omnipresent medium to facilitate such a transfer of energy. But, as Science moved inexorably into a “forms-primary” stance, such an invisible and unformulateable ground, just had to go!

20th century Physics denied that there was any kind of Universal Medium or Substrate. And thereby, terminated any attempted explanation as to what both caused and then facilitated these evident phenomena. Everyone, it seemed was wholly satisfied with useable equations alone. Real understanding was becoming surplus to requirements...