General Ether Theory

Abstract

The paper is an introduction into General Ether Theory (GET). We start with few assumptions about an universal ``ether'' in a Newtonian space-time which fulfils \partial_t ρ+ \partial_i (ρv^i) = 0 \partial_t (ρv^j) + \partial_i(ρv^i v^j + p^{ij}) = 0 For an ``effective metric'' $g_{μν}$ we derive a Lagrangian where the Einstein equivalence principle is fulfilled: L=L_{GR}-(8πG)^{-1}(Υg^{00}-Ξ(g^{11}+g^{22}+g^{33}))\sqrt{-g} We consider predictions (stable frozen stars instead of black holes, big bounce instead of big bang singularity, a dark matter term), quantization (regularization by an atomic ether, superposition of gravitational fields), related methodological questions (covariance, EPR criterion, Bohmian mechanics).