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1.1 · The Aetheron
One mass, one radius, one moment. What is fixed by measurement, what follows, and the single free parameter that remains.
In progressTOE — Part 1
The substance itself — one particle, one lattice, and the elastic constants that follow.
All memos in this series are working drafts. Part 1 establishes the medium. One particle with a single mass, radius and magnetic moment, arranged in a three-dimensional lattice held at a fixed spacing. Everything after this is built from it. The speed of light appears here rather than in Part 4, because it is not a property of light — it is an elastic constant of the lattice.
One mass, one radius, one moment. What is fixed by measurement, what follows, and the single free parameter that remains.
In progressRepulsion, the crossover, the snap — and the outer attraction the law still needs before it can set a spacing at all.
Open problemA Cauchy solid. Central forces and isotropy force K/G = 5/3 and Poisson's ratio to exactly one quarter. The complete elastic set.
Read →Transverse light requires shear rigidity. The objection that sank the classical aether, and why matter being made of the medium answers it.
Read →Compression, twist and shear. Two are barred — one by conservation, one by its cutoff. Only the third can be excited, and it is light.
Read →c as an elastic constant of the lattice, and Maxwell's own derivation of it from rigidity and density in 1862.
Read →The lattice spacing: bounded above by the highest-energy photons ever observed, and why Planck's constant is the only thing that can fix it.
In progressA void fills in one Planck time. Vacancies, the Casimir measurement, and why free expansion proves nothing either way.
Ready to writeEvery memo carries a ledger at its foot — what is derived, what is measured, what is assumed, what remains open, and who reached it first. Claims can be audited where they are made.