The dome never existed and never will.
But it has to.
You mentioned the ether. Then, the radius of curvature of the Universe must be 31 km.
The calculation was carried out by Wolfgang Pauli, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century.
"If the electromagnetic field would really have a non vanishing zero-point energy, 'the universe would not even reach to the moon'".
If the ether drift field (zero point energy, scalar waves) does exist, then the radius of curvature of the observable universe is 31 km.
ShieldSquare Captcha
C. P. Enz, A. Thellung : Nullpunktenergie und Anordnung
nicht vertauschbarer Faktoren im Hamiltonoperator ,
Helv. Phys. Acta 33, 839–848 (1960) pg 842
Walther Nernst: grandfather of dark energy?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.2213.pdf
Earlier, I stated that the upper bound of the distance to Sirius is less than 50 km:
Advanced Flat Earth Theory
"If the electromagnetic field would really have a non vanishing zero-point energy, the radius of the universe would then be 31 km."
This is precisely what happens in reality.
The distance from the center of the flat surface of the Earth to the top of the second dome is 31 km.
The existence of the dome is a consequence of the existence of ether waves.
Now, let us revisit terrestrial gravity as a force of pressure.
Euler Pressure Gravity
Advanced Flat Earth Theory
Newton's 1679 Letter to Boyle, on the Cosmic Ether of Space (I. Newton letter to R. Boyle)
4. When two bodies moving towards one another come near together, I suppose the aether between them to grow rarer than before, and the spaces of its graduated rarity to extend further from the superficies of the bodies towards one another; and this, by reason that the aether cannot move and play up and down so freely in the strait passage between the bodies, as it could before they came so near together.
5. Now, from the fourth supposition it follows, that when two bodies approaching one another come so near together as to make the aether between them begin to rarefy, they will begin to have a reluctance from being brought nearer together, and an endeavour to recede from one another; which reluctance and endeavour will increase as they come nearer together, because thereby they cause the interjacent aether to rarefy more and more. But at length, when they come so near together that the excess of pressure of the external aether which surrounds the bodies, above that of the rarefied aether, which is between them, is so great as to overcome the reluctance which the bodies have from being brought together; then will that excess of pressure drive them with violence together, and make them adhere strongly to one another, as was said in the second supposition.
As a matter of fact, Newton was pressed from all sides to provide an explanation for terrestrial gravity, that is why the second edition of the Principia, in the official chronology of history, includes the essay on the CAUSE of gravity.
“In attractions, I briefly demonstrate the thing after this manner. Suppose an obstacle is interposed to hinder the meeting of any two bodies A, B, attracting one the other: then if either body, as A, is more attracted towards the other body B, than that other body B is towards the first body A, the obstacle will be more strongly urged by the pressure of the body A than by the pressure of the body B, and therefore will not remain in equilibrium: but the stronger pressure will prevail, and will make the system of the two bodies, together with the obstacle, to move directly towards the parts on which B lies; and in free spaces, to go forwards in infinitum with a motion continually accelerated; which is absurd and contrary to the first law.”
the obstacle will be more strongly urged by the pressure of the body A
Newton's clear description again:
the obstacle will be more strongly urged by the pressure of the body A than by the pressure of the body B, and therefore will not remain in equilibrium: but the stronger pressure will prevail
ATTRACTION = PRESSURE EXERTED FROM OUTSIDE PUSHING TWO OBJECTS TOGETHER
“This implies an important conclusion: bodies of different volumes that are in the same gradient medium acquire the same acceleration.
Note that if we keep watch on the fall of bodies of different masses and volumes in the Earth’s gravitation field under conditions when the effect of the air resistance is minimized (or excluded), the bodies acquire the same acceleration. Galileo was the first to establish this fact. The most vivid experiment corroborating the fact of equal acceleration for bodies of different masses is a fall of a lead pellet and bird feather in the deaerated glass tube. Imagine we start dividing one of the falling bodies into some parts and watching on the fall of these parts in the vacuum. Quite apparently, both large and small parts will fall down with the same acceleration in the Earth’s gravitation field. If we continue this division down to atoms we can obtain the same result. Hence it follows that the gravitation field is applied to every element that has a mass and constitutes a physical body. This field will equally accelerate large and small bodies only if it is gradient and acts on every elementary particle of the bodies. But a gradient gravitation field can act on bodies if there is a medium in which the bodies are immersed. Such a medium is the ether medium. The ether medium has a gradient effect not on the outer sheath of a body (a bird feather or lead pellet), but directly on the nuclei and electrons constituting the bodies. That is why bodies of different densities acquire equal acceleration.
Equal acceleration of the bodies of different volumes and masses in the gravitation field also indicates such an interesting fact that it does not matter what external volume the body has and what its density is. Only the ether medium volume that is forced out by the total amount of elementary particles (atomic nuclei, electrons etc.) matters. If gravitation forces acted on the outer sheath of the bodies then the bodies of a lower density would accelerate in the gravitation field faster than those of a higher density.
The examples discussed above allow clarifying the action mechanism of the gravitation force of physical bodies on each other. Newton was the first to presume that there is a certain relation between the gravitation mechanism and Archimedean principle. The medium exerting pressure on a gravitating body is the ether.”
However, this does not explain at all why a body/object attains weight, and thus can fall to the ground.
"Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev, a respected Russian astrophysicist, announced almost fifty years ago that he had discovered a new force in physics that he called the “density of time.” He concluded that the rate at which time passes can be altered by other physical processes."
Time not only has a pattern of flow, says Dr. Kozyrev, but also a rate of flow. He calls "the rate of flow" the difference between cause and effect. "As the rate of the time flow through a substance changes, weight is lost," Dr. Kozyrev told us.”
Time is a torsion potential (also called a scalar wave).
Time is the dextrorotatory torsion field (subquark string), or terrestrial gravity.
Anti-time is the laevorotatory torsion field, or antigravity.
The flow of time and anti-time can cause matter to either increase or decrease in weight.
Both torsion potentials/scalar waves form the Whittaker potential.
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg2265207#msg2265207 (antiNewton law of antigravity)
The aether absorbed by the graviton wormholes activates the rotation of the two counterpropagating Riemann zeta function waves, which provide the weight of the particle. (m = density x volume, the density is given by the Gutzwiller trace formula which is related to the oscillatory/fluctuating series for the zeta zeros).