Derailing the thread further, I don't understand why people say "aether was flat out wrong". Is it because they don't know it was just a name change, and we're

Derailing the thread further, I don't understand why people say "aether was flat out wrong". Is it because they don't know it was just a name change, and we're now calling it "vacuum"? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories See for example, The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether. But we do not call it this because it is taboo.