Ya, I think it is quite probable that ether holds us to our earth. I don't think our earth is moving 9.8 sec.
I think Jrowe could be correct "I believe all matter was originally aetheric in nature" so maybe matter can also revert back to ether. There certainly seems to be some cutting edge science on this website.
I did not want to talk on Jrowe's model until I was sure he was back, but Before you go saying something like that, lets back up a moment here.
First "evidence" of a flat Earth was it looks flat -- Pretty easily explainable by understanding the size of the Earth and your relative size to it, it will in fact look flat from our perspective.
Second "evidence" of flat Earth was the trigonometry using the shadows of sticks measured very far apart measuring the size of the Round Earth could also be used for a flat Earth with a sun about 3000 miles above it. -- The current model of the FE proponents, and these are the only two options for that mathematical calculation which has been done thousands upon thousands of times (I'm assuming of course since I did it 3 times in high school(using telephone and another high school across the country) and once in a college physics USM class in conjunction with a class at UNC).
Third "evidence" of a flat Earth was that gravity could be explained by UA -- You can measure the acceleration of things acted upon be gravity and the only other explanation would be the Flat Earth model of the Earth accelerating upwards. Now if you are saying aether has an attractive force and the more of it that you have clumped into one place then higher the attractive force is, you are basically describing matter and its gravitational properties.
So are you saying its gravity, but not wanting to use the term? If we want to use aether in place of matter and gravity, then ok. Because aether attracts to itself and the more aether you gather into one place the more attractive force adds up, then with a sufficient enough amount of aether its attractive force will pull towards itself somewhat equally. This will pull the aether into a ball with the center of the ball of aether under a great deal of pressure. It will in fact form a ball of aether due to its attractive nature.
Also Jrowe's model requires a bump in the middle of each side of the disc with the highest point being the poles. He will keep having to raise this bump to explain the path of the sun in the sky until he gets pretty close to a ball. **edit** Jrowe changed the theory before I posted this to 2 suns mirrored by the aether, still haven't looked into this new one yet.