Time and Space flow results from Action. Unlike Eddington's balloon model for the expanding Universe, the model of choice is a bowl of exploding popcorn. Particles are created in accelerators only as the consequence of sufficiently energetic compressions of space. The virtual swarm about a real particle is just the space itself. Max Born's statistical interpretation winning over Schroedinger's physical interpretation of wave functions needs review.
Space is the ether.
Black holes compress and drag space. Normalization of atomic wavefunctions ought to be set to their mass rather than unit probablity over all space. I have read many of these books over the past fifteen years specifically in search of citations consistent with my notion. The view is that space itself is expanding carrying the galaxies with it. The expansion creates the space.