My Dear Writing Friend Judy,
Wow, in only twenty-five words you set my mind to musing all day, a job well done. Simple, deep, and dusted with wisdom. You again my friend have painted a word picture that gave my senses a jolt, much like being struck by lighting while standing in a pond.
I am sorry it took me so long to post my musing but I have been away in the Bush.
There may well be an "ether."
Better than any scientist's conjecture, is your gorgeous and purely elegant description--indeed, definition--of this supposedly rarefied element.
Lovely, light-bearing, lingering poetry--as accurate and far more palatable than unpronounceable technical terms or endless, impossible-to-comprehend mathematics.
Congratulations, Judy, you are a virtual genius!