Medium and Waves Clarifying Fundamental Physics

Although quantum theory, relativity and gravity provide excellent predictions of observations in their corresponding domains, a qualitative understanding of these three pillars of fundamental physics and their connection, is still very much lacking. As shown in this paper, by considering a medium (ether) in three-dimensional Euclidean space, representing potential energy, and waves in this medium representing all physical objects and phenomena, all three can be much better connected and understood. All waves move with the velocity of light c which is only approximately constant because it is assumed to depend on medium density. From this medium with waves model of physics, three delusions obscuring fundamental physics are identified. These prevent connecting relativity, gravity and quantum theory and obscure their qualitative understanding. As to the quantitative understanding, the waves are shown to connect to the mathematics of relativity and gravity. In connecting to the mathematics of quantum theory, a specific type of wave, called luminal waves, is shown to have a huge advantage. On the other hand, this type of wave is shown to reside at a less fundamental level than a second type of wave that is also considered in this paper.