How big is a Planck particle, and how does the Planck field relate to the ether?
A viewer asks how big a Planck particle is.
Answer
You can put measurements on it, based on three other measurements: the gravitational constant G, found by Cavendish in the 1800s using two large metal balls on friction-free swivels and measuring how they drew together; Planck's constant, about ten to the minus thirty-four joules; and the speed of light, about 300,000 kilometers per second. Combine those three and you get the length, temperature, and mass of a Planck particle. The Planck length comes out to about 1.6 times ten to the minus thirty-five meters, which is extremely small, some twenty orders of magnitude smaller than an electron, while its mass is far greater in proportion than its length, which makes the Planck world very strange. It also has a charge of about eleven electrostatic units, which we believe forms an electrical barrier between neighboring Planck particles, since at that scale you cannot have a physical barrier without adding mass. Can these particles move faster than light and carry information faster than light? No, because they do not move at all. That is the whole reason we pursue them as the traditional ether: the Planck field is a medium that does not move, and light, which is a transverse wave, travels through it as an excitement of that field, always coming out at 300,000 kilometers per second. Gravity and inertia would likewise drop out of how the Planck field reacts within itself, but the field as a whole stays fixed. And that is one reason the earth does not move: the earth and the Planck field share a center of gravity, and the universe runs through that fixed, frictionless field.