The Aether Physics Model is based upon the same empirical data as the Standard Model, yet it provides a very different foundation for physics. In 1785, Charles Coulomb deduced the electrostatic force law and used a torsion balance to demonstrate it. From this he deduced that all charge must be distributed in order for the inverse square law to work. But physicists interpreted this to mean that point charges are equally spaced. To begin with, there is no such thing in the real world as a point charge, and second, if the charges were spaced and quantized, then there would be null spaces on a weakly charged surface. The Aether Physics Model sees all charge as distributed and notates charge distribution as coul².

This logical correction of the data does not change the value of the data. If electrostatic charge is notated as e in the Standard Model, and e² in the Aether Physics Model, then electrostatic charge retains the same value in either system. Whether we write e, e², e³, or any other power of e, e always remains the same. What changes is our definition of elementary charge. Since the inverse square law dictates that all charge must be distributed in order for it to work, the Aether Physics Model chooses the e² representation of elementary charge.

From this new notation of elementary charge arises a completely new foundation for physics. By viewing the data in terms of distributed charge, we can deduce actual geometry for the elementary (electrostatic) charge. In addition, we can quantify a second type of charge, called the strong charge, which is responsible for quantifying magnetism, electromagnetism, the strong force, the Casimir force, and others. The strong charge also has a precise geometry.

The strong charge can further be mathematically related to the angular momentum of the subatomic particle. In fact, there is a precise relationship between the strong charge and the angular momentum of the subatomic particle. This also means that the strong force is directly proportional to the gravitational force, as the Aether Physics Model demonstrates.

The proportion of electrostatic to strong charge is equal to what the Standard Model calls the "weak nuclear interaction" or "weak nuclear force." It is not a force at all, but merely the proportion of the two types of charge. It is interesting that modern physicists can determine the proportion between the two types of charges empirically, but they weren't clever enough to realize that the charges had to be distributed in order for this proportion to work out. So the easy way out was to label this proportion a fourth type of force. In reality, there are only three types of forces; electrostatic, electromagnetic, and gravitational.

Yet, the Aether Physics Model mathematically explains the perceived ratios of the so-called set of four forces, in addition to correctly reducing the four forces into their true three force manifestations.