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I. Introduction

Within the accepted wisdom, if some material ( notice the word material not Matter, used later on to mean what falls under our senses) fills the Space, then this material must have the following qualities: a) must exhibit uncontrollable deformations and b) must exhibit uncontrollable stresses. Here by uncontrollable we understand “impossible to restrain with human means”. This does not mean unobservable or not measurable. Indeed, if we just observe this stuff that fills the Space, and it exhibits a perceptible deformation, we are not sure that this deformation is not made under the action of some unobservable forces. On the other hand, if we can perform experiments with this material, measuring forces, we have to confine experimentation to a given volume and this may induce uncontrollable strains. Thus the stuff must be described by a mathematical entity accounting for both these aspects of human knowledge. To the best of our knowledge, these properties can be accounted for within the framework of the theory of stresses and deformations, for these physical occurrences are pictured mathematically by matrices, particularly tensors. If the stuff – let us call it the fabric of Space for now – is isotropic from the point of view of the relationship between the deformation and stress determining it, then one can deduce a unique mathematical description of this fabric identical with the classical description of the electromagnetic fields. As a matter of fact, classically the fabric of Space has been termed as ether and the electromagnetic field was always regarded as a dynamical manifestation of this ether. We just take the idea of ether to another level. The electromagnetic field is only what Man could technologically grasp up to this point in the development of Science. The way these ideas come out of theoretical speculations has been described in one of the essays from this very page. We use here the mathematical consequences of this essay.

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