imho particles are temperature related (I use temperature here more as a popular term to describe an excitement level within the Aether and the Particles). Now replace mass with temperature container, and see for example the Sun as one giant cold spot, because it contains so many little cold spots. Now everything goes from warm to cold, we all look for a place in the shades to cool down. Fermions are particles that are open and Bosons are shielded off, and can carry the cold (shade) from one place to an other without losing it. Next you have to imagine the Aether as a static vibrant fluid that can transfer temperature freely but with a relative constant pressure, this would be the Higgs Field. A fermion that has mass 1 or temperature 1 and that is open, will gradually move towards the place that has temperature -1 but by doing so it will lose heat to the medium, thus the medium get’s warmer around it and it’s acceleration towards the cold spot will stay the same. Now imagine photons that are closed off, these particles can’t mingle their temperature with the Aether (Higgs Field) so they won’t change in temperature and are hardly affected by colder temperature fields (Gravity), but gravity goes in a circle around one spot (Sun) so the gradient is curved and light will be bent. Now the Aether disperses an overall a temperature of 2.725 K (CMB). And a massive particle can never move at the speed of light, because it will always lose energy because it is open, not like a photon that generates a shell and that can keep it’s temperature. The relation between the temperature of the Aether and the core temperature of the particle will define the energy of a particle. And yes there might even be very small graviton-bosons that carry a little bit of coolness far into space, along with the photons, so gradually the Space around the Sun and the Milky Way is being wider and wider cooled down, affecting the photons that are approaching us. Thus the further the field around us gets to be chilled, the more energy the incoming particles relatively lose, creating Red Shift.
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Some quotes & notes regarding Aether:
A. “Thus, once again ,,empty” space appears as endowed with physical properties, i.e., no longer as physically empty, as seemed to be the case according to Special Relativity. One can thus say that the Aether is resurrected in the General theory of Relativity, though in a more sublimated form.”
A. Einstein, Grundgedanken und Methoden der Relativitatstheorie in ihrer Entwicklung dargestellt, (Morgan Manuscript) Einstein Archives 2070.
B.“According to the general theory of relativity, space without ether is unthinkable; for in such space, not only would there be no propagation of light, but also no possibility of existence for standards of space and time (measuring rods and clocks), nor therefore any space-time intervals in the physical sense.”
A. Einstein, Aether und Relativitaetstheorie, Berlin: Verlag von J. Springer, 1920.
C. “All our attempts to make ether real failed. It revealed neither its mechanical construction nor absolute motion. Nothing remained of all the properties of the ether except that for which it was invented, i.e., its ability to transmit electromagnetic waves. Our attempts to discover the properties of the ether led to difficulties and contradictions. After such bad experiences, this is the moment to forget the ether completely and to try never to mention its name.”
The Evolution of Physics Einstein 1938
So Einstein does not say that there is no Aether, he only spoke of failure to make it real, and to give up and forget looking for it. That’s like how Newton said in 1721 that a watch could never measure time precisely, or how Ernest Rutherford said in 1933 that anyone who looked for a source of power in the transformation of the atoms was talking moonshine. The problem is discovering it.
