Just an FYI, ether drift, if real, supports a round earth orbiting the sun better than a stationary flat earth.You still don't get it.
In one of the most intriguing experiments of the 20th century, Martin Ruderfer proved mathematically and experimentally, using the spinning Mossbauer effect, the FIRST NULL RESULT in ether drift theory (1961).
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=66858.msg1784179#msg1784179 (also includes the references on the Ives experiment, a hexagonal closed path Sagnac effect)
A GPS satellite orbiting the Earth, while at the same time the entire system is orbiting the Sun, IS A LARGE SCALE SPINNING MOSSBAUER EXPERIMENT.
Given the very fact that these GPS satellites DO NOT record the orbital Sagnac effect, means that THE HYPOTHESES OF THE RUDERFER EXPERIMENT ARE FULFILLED.
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1782182#msg1782182Ron Hatch, one of the world's greatest experts on GPS satellite technology, explains:
Why is there no requirement for a Sagnac correction due to the earth’s orbital motion? Like the transit time in the spinning Mossbauer experiments, any such effect would be completely canceled by the orbital-velocity effect on the satellite clocks.
However, indirectly, the counteracting effects of the transit time and clock slowing induced biases indicate that an ether drift is present.
This is because there is independent evidence that clocks are slowed as a result of their speed. Thus,
ether drift must exist or else the clock slowing effect would be observed. Believe it or not, most scientists have begun to give up on the theory of relativity, as it no longer can explain the spinning Mossbauer effect encountered in the GPS satellites.
THE LATEST VIEWPOINT in cosmology today is this: MLET (Modified Lorentz Ether Theory).
THIS IS THE LAST STAND of the RE scientists.
Let me explain.
A modified Lorentz ether is a TRANSLATIONAL ETHER: that is, it surrounds the Earth like an envelope, but does NOT rotate along with the Earth around its own axis; while at the same time it travels WITH the Earth in its orbit around the Sun.
In this way, the orbital Sagnac spinning Mossbauer effect could be explained by this translational ether.
HOWEVER, there is no such thing as MLET.
None other than Dr. Hans Zweig (Stanford University) has exposed the fallacies inherent in Lorentz' approach:
The colossal mistakes committed by Lorentz and Einstein in deriving the Lorentz transformation/factor:
http://relativityunraveled.net/chapter-4-the-michelson-morley-experiment/http://relativityunraveled.net/chapter-5-the-lorentz-transformation/http://relativityunraveled.net/chapter-1-introduction/Dr. Hans Zweig, Stanford University:
http://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/wiki/hans-j-zweig/MLET (Modified Lorentz Ether Theory) is based on the Lorentz transformation (Lorentz factor/contraction), and as such, is equally invalid.
http://www.gsjournal.net/old/weuro/agathan5.pdfAnd things don't stop here.
In addition to the fact that GPS satellites do not record the orbital Sagnac effect, we have an even greater problem: the GPS clocks DO NOT RECORD the Sun's gravitational potential.
It is assumed that the orbital velocity of the Earth as it orbits the Sun is a variable; however, the GPS clocks show that the this velocity MUST BE CONSTANT, as it does not record the Sun's gravitational potential effect upon these clocks.
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1782182#msg1782182https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1784780#msg1784780