Fortis,

My statement was ambiguous. The aether at rest would reach the speed of the acceleration of matter within .6 seconds according to my current estimates. This estimate which could be related to the speed of light going down vs. horizontal to be something different than the mean value predicted of 32 ft per second.

The theory would accordingly predict that the reason for the acceleration rate of gravity is directly related or proportional to the speed of the inward accelerating aether. Accordingly if something were dropped from a cliff straight down, the first second of its acceleration would be caused by the accelerating speed of the aether field at that point. The result accordingly would be the object traveling 16 ft. in the first second. If there would be a linear relationship between the speed of the aether, 32 ft. per second, and the acceleration rate of gravity then this speed of the aether would be multiplied by one second giving a continuous acceleration rate of 32 ft/ sec./sec. If is is not exactly linear at the surface of the earth then the speed of the aether would be different from my mean estimate.

This linear relationship applies to roughly a one second interval, any other time interval of acceleration would not apply to this estimate in a linear way. Of course the acceleration rate would be the same, per second, minute, or hour; the numbers, however, would seem to be unrelated. There would a reason for this seeming co-incidence. My current range of the estimated value of the aether speed is between 19 to 32 feet per second with an expected value of 32 feet per second plus an expected range of minus 20 feet per second.