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Much evidence now exists that Betelgeuse controls the local cluster of stars in which we reside, with an estimated mass of 14 million that of the Sun. The reasons are: a plane passed through the solar apex, the Sun, and Betelgeuse is found to be perpendicular to the earth's orbit, the two have equal radial velocities, there is star streaming towards Orion, the motion of new stars is from this place, and Gould's Great Belt of Stars, of which the Sun is a member, appears to be orbiting something in Orion. Finally, the lack of differential rotation in the Galaxy means that its circulating mass must increase as the cube orbits distance from the center. This requires great mass at the edge of the Galaxy where we are located. Betelgeuse is an obvious candidate for this role.

The Electromechanical Analogies come from the fact that the equations for the electrical and mechanical worlds are of identical form. This means Mass is analogous to Inductance, and since Inductance is created by Current (e.m.u.), Mass must be the result of Ether Current (e.s.u.).The velocity of the latter is the velocity of light, which, then, relates e.s.u. to e.m.u .. And since the gravitational force has been found, experimentally, to be instantaneous, the restoration of the Ether now enables a Universe produced from this substance to hold together if it is rotating. Furthermore, this force has been found to be the result of the rotation of the positive charge, and caused by a Counter-e.m.f. or Counterforce produced in the creation of Mass.

Dr. Albert C. Crehore, with his all-nuclear atom, established that material particles can approach each other to a minimum distance of approximately 10.13 centimeters. This rules out any 'Big Ban' in the creation of the Uni verse. He also established that all radiation is the result of an electron being ejected from an atom to a certain distance, and then returning. But in this process, the only reasonable mechanism to create a velocity 'c' of the resulting photons is an annihilation of material particles with this internal velocity, created in an ether. The ejected and returning electron does this. The ether is entrained by any large mass object, so a star moving radically, or transversely, with the same velocity, would create identical photons which are red-shifted as they enter the normal, static ether. This red-shift has been erroneously taken as exclusive evidence of an expanding, rather than a rotating Universe. The Hubble Constant is now the fixed angular velocity of the Universe, connecting the transverse velocity of its parts with their distance from its center.

The quantitative analogies point to an ether with many of the properties of a perfect fluid: that is, incompressible, frictionless, convective, gyrostatic; but also infinitely polarizable. Mass, considered not to vary with velocity, is apparently the bridge between the ether world. and the electrical world which we inhabit. Does this mean that the ether 150 composed of minute charged particles, or of neutral couplets, mirroring our atoms, which are then entrainable by matter, but do not rotate with it?

This paper expands upon the findings of Dr. Albert C. Crehore, an 1892 graduate of Yale University, and a pioneer nuclear physicist of this century, that gravitation is the result of the rotation of the positive charge of the atom. This theory is based upon the electrodynamics of Dr. M.N. Saha, using the Minkowski four-dimensional interpretation of the Special Theory of Relativity with a restriction noted. A slight correction places the result squarely on the Rydberg constant, a feat which has not been duplicated since the Bohr atom of 1913. It will also bring up to date his all nuclear atom with no orbiting electrons, which he used in his Theory of the Spectra for this atom in its excited state.

Another of his findings was that when atoms come together to form a molecule, they are held at a minimum distance by a very powerful electromagnetic force which rules out gravitational collapse as the basis for 'Black Holes', or a 'Big Bang' theory as to the origin of the Universe. Dr. Crehore speculated that the restoration of an Ether might bring about a new, unified foundation of physics and cosmology. This idea is developed as an answer to the partial theoretical systems of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics which hold sway today. A new foundation of the Universe is presented, which places a different interpretation on the Hubble Constant.