The Tall Man
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Aether theory is hard to grasp, not because it is more difficult or convoluted than GR, but because most contemporary theories are explained with GR and built with it in mind.Only if the hollow planet's matter were impermeable to said pressure.
By itself, it's easier to understand because it doesn't require irrational concepts.
There are many highly sophisticated aether models. By the way, the more prominent ones predicted that the Michelson-Morley experiment would not find some kind of "aether wind," and they knew they were disproving a strawman.
My favorite model describes aether as an incompressible medium that permeates everything, or better said, what is called matter is a lower pressure form of aether.
So, the pressure of the aether terminates towards matter, which creates magnetic and dielectric fields.
Light and even electricity are seen as waves on this medium, so there is nothing that blocks or holds out aether.
The shortest frequencies known are just waves on the aether medium, so there is nothing that doesn't interact with it.
In that model, mass and inertia are the interaction of matter with the aether.
It's not entirely accurate to describe it as a pressure that pushes matter into a point.
The best analogy is to imagine waves in a pool pushing a rubber duck towards the edge. There isn't actually a force pushing the rubber duck towards the edge; the rubber duck is interacting with the up and down motions of the waves, and this interaction creates the motion of the rubber duck. If the waves are the right frequency and the rubber duck the right size and weight, then the waves bouncing off the pool's edge can actually repel the rubber duck and keep it at a constant distance.
Aether is, of course, a lot more "etherial" than water; after all, it's the stuff electricity rides on, so even the smallest particulate is getting forced into a position that holds equilibrium.
So, thinking of it as air pressure is misleading; you should picture it more like electric pressure. It doesn't matter if your power line cables are thicker or thinner in regards to the force that they experience, only the electric power matters. Therefore, only the material of the cable matters since that is part of the power equation.
I really struggle with explaining this in English, but maybe you understood some of it.