Hello Richard,
I like these comments you have made:
1. Ether became unfashionable with Einstein's theory of relativity even though Einstein himself said, though it can't modulate light speed, to remove it entirely was 'unthinkable'.
2. Who can say that our physical sense covers all in the infinite universe/s when we have no idea what's going on at anywhere near that scale?
Thanks for pointing that we are looking at the small scale for so long we have become myopic.
Please see my essay for a universe wide quantum particle phenomena that can be considered space-time. Alternatively the distribution of this particle can be considered the ether. This particle is a newly conceived graviton that has mass. Not so strange ...really.
Thanks for your excellent essay,
Don Limuti