This work began in 1943-1944. By 2001 it was a relatively complete Unified Field Theory. It was, unfortunately, based upon deformations in a single fluid substance, the ether. The baseless tabu against the ether has made it virtually impossible to publish, although a few opportunities appeared over the years. No one has ever found any basic error in the work. It is mostly rigorous; particularly in the fundamentals. However, most rejections and objections have come from persons who did not read the work, which was printed in book form in 1989 and updated in 2001.
Hoping to at least get someone to realize how far classical physics can be pushed, I re-wrote some of the material, omitting the ether as motivation. This material appears as the six notes in the index below. As I progressed through the chapters chosen, it became more and more difficult to explain why the results came about without calling upon the ether for motivation. Finally, at Chapter 8, Rods, Clocks, and Plumb Bobs, it became pointless to try. Rod shortening, clock slowing and the absolute acceleration of plumb bobs occur only because there is an ether.
Finding the ether's physical properties is the basic problem. They are presented in the following file of the completely revised edition of the book PHYSICS 2001Rev. It just scratches the surface, but it's a start.
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