wrote:
By the way, do black holes swallow ether which passes beyond the event
horizon of a black hole?

Yes, the structure of space collapses along with everything else.

Might Einstein have been talking
about the ether of being the FORCE of gravity itself (in our point of
reference), which would be an abstract ether, not a physical one?

All you have to prove is that gravity can warp an abstraction.
Does gravity warp God?
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com
"According to the general theory of relativity,
space without ether is unthinkable." Albert Einstein