Conclusion
     A primary consequence of the quantum medium specified in Premise I and Premise II is the decrease in energy exchange rate within any physical system or body due to its motion through the medium or its location near a concentration of mass/energy.
     Secondary consequences of the medium include a wide variety of phenomena observed in nature. These phenomena include relativistic length contraction, relativistic time dilation, and relativistic mass increase. The phenomena include the observed constant speed of light, the observed gravitational forces between bodies, inertia and forces due to acceleration (as in Newton's bucket). These phenomena have been somewhat mysterious because they seemed to have no apparent physical causes. The fact that a quantum medium provides logical physical causes for this wide range of phenomena suggests that this medium exists.
     The medium's existence is further indicated by the fact that it permits these phenomena to be explained within the logical framework of Galilean and Newtonian physics, and it permits observers in different reference frames to agree on the rates of clocks, the lengths of distance scales, and the masses of bodies. The medium is consistent with experimental evidence, and various experiments should detect our changing absolute velocity on Earth and determine the Sun's velocity through the medium.

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