[MichaelMD (OP)]

 My model of a universal ether starts with how it would have formed, out of a "first world" in which the only thing existing was oscillation, of elemental point-localities. In First World, the Ether, and forces, had not yet appeared, making first world self-compatible, such that rarified "points" were oscillating with respect to other points, in perfect symmetry, everywhere. -Then, oscillatory fatigue caused neighboring point localities to fall toward each other as a "Yin and Yang" point-pair  (rather than continuing to reciprocally oscillate with all the other points),

(Oscillatory fatigue is known to occur in our world. It occurs in metals.)

The oscillatory reciprocity-distances in first world had to be finite, making the elemental "points" finite also. -If the distances had been infinite, oscillation could not have occurred, and further events that led to our kind of world could not have happened.

The point-pairs would have had to reversibly re-equilibrate with the oscillating points in their vicinity (such point-pairs would not have been "stuck together," they would have to have acted reversibly). -Now, reverting to singleton elemental units, they would have been out-of-phase with the ocillating points, and would have transitioned to vibrational (as derived from the oscillational) elemental ether units. These first units of Ether, being elemental, would have been identical to each other, and by vibrating, would have interacted with each other (resonated) in a perfectly-linear way, as their outward vibrations form loose connections. As more and more elemental ether units resonated with each other, they formed entrainments, leading to the formation of larger "particle" units, up to the size of quantum and atomic units. Quantum units, which form the atomic structure of our world, interact via spin, vectors, waves, and other non-linear mechanisms, unlike the linear interaction of vibratory elemental ether units. This is an important point when considering Quantum Entanglement (below).

This picture of a universal ether points to a new model for gravitation. -If a pair of solid bodies in space are approaching each other, the state of the ether between the bodies would be affected as follows. -The bodies themselves, like everything in our world, are ultimately composed of elemental ether units. Inside the bodies, these ether units would be interacting intensely. -The space between the two bodies would contain the same universal elemental ether units. Thus, there exists an "elemental-ether-unit continuum" from the two bodies, into the space between them. In this space, which you could call an "auric zone" between the bodies, the ether becomes more interactive than the ether outside of this zone. As each pair of elemental ether units connect with each other, the space between the units is erased. Thus the ether in this auric zone contracts, or constricts, pulling the two bodies toward each other gravitationally.

In this ether model, underlying our quantum atomically-structured world, there exists an unstructured ether matrix composed of a sea of elemental ether units, which resonate in a perfectly-linear fashion. -This leads to a compelling model for Quantum Entanglement (QE). In QE, when a pair of closely-related quantum units are separated, even over vast distances, they appear to remain connected in some mysterious way. -The kind of ether model described above is the only way to rationally account for QE. -I believe QE represents radiated packets of etheric energy which have the same vibratory pattern. Elemental ether units, acting linearly, are the only actual participants in this phenomenon, with the two quantum units being kinetically "walled off," like cool "arms" of a quiet, purring, ether mechanism that can turn itself on and off, by itself, at any time.