Abstract

In the author?s book Einstein and The-Emperor?s-New-Clothes Syndrome: The Expos? of a Charlatan, a Universal Energy Field (UEF) was proposed as the universal medium required to explain the phenomenon of gravity. It was also shown that this UEF was the medium required to explain the phenomenon of light: the medium previously referred to as the ?aether.? However, because relativity has for so long contended that such a medium does not exist, it is realized that its existence will not be readily accepted as a scientific fact. For this reason, then, the following discussion con?cerning the similarities between the UEF and the earth's atmosphere is presented, with the following two purposes in mind: 1. To help clarify how the UEF provides the rational expla?nation for the properties of light, which are, at the present time, irrationally explained by relativity, and 2. To point out the similarities between the forces generated by the UEF and the atmosphere, to more clearly show that the UEF is not only plausible, but is es?sential for the rational understanding of the physical universe. In addition, it will also be explained how the UEF com?prises the long-sought missing mass of the universe.