AtD. Now we come to the Aether, p. 58

[Mark Kohut]

'Basically a religious question" [as to its existence] sez Prof VJ......
"it's all faith at the moment"....

Does TRP here turn the usual science is fact, metaphysics/religion is speculation, i.e. faith on its head? 

he proceeds on p 58 to give a remarkably current state of quantum physics synopsis from what I have read.....'only a noun for the verb to undulate"...'those tiny whirlpools the theory has come to require"....

I think I remember a NYTimes summary in the early aughts of this state of understanding.......

By p. 60 we have the phrase [about humifity in the Aether] 'precipitated nothingness'...........which IS, but for the humidity joke, how quarks and them things come and go, stranger than in all our philosophy...............