Life , depression just everything at this point <| sep |> Just let it go . <| sep |> 1 No Man ' s Lie <| sep |> it ' s hot ham water <| sep |> There does exist Lorentz ' s ether theory which contains the same formalism as Einstein ' s SR but we ' ve moved past it . Lorentz ' s ether requires it to be immobile in every reference frame and undisturbed by all matter passing through it so it ' s essentially nonexistent . Einstein ' s SR is much more elegant , provides a full physical interpretation , and has been wildly successful . It just seems like not even God knows of absolute time and space . It should be noted too that you can get the precession and hyperbolic motion of relativistic gravity by adding small corrections to the Newtonian gravitational potential such thatVr ar br 2 where ba . However , this isn ' t really a theory , just an ad hoc correction that some really smart people thought of before Einstein did his thing .