1. As the hypothesis of complete aether drag, it can explain the negative outcome of all aether drift experiments.

2. On the part of therapist, lack of empathy, negative countertransference, underestimation of the severity of the patient's problems, and poor technique all have been associated with negative outcome.

3. To explain the negative outcome of the Michelson–Morley experiment, George FitzGerald (1889) and Hendrik Lorentz (1892) introduced the contraction hypothesis, according to which a body is contracted during its motion through the stationary aether.

4. The present invention also provides a diagnostic kit for predicting the viability of an embryo or for predicting the likelihood of a negative outcome during pregnancy by identifying the presence of or determining the amount of one or more pregnancy associated markers such as a human serum albumin, a serum albumin precursor, a gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit or a tetratricopeptide repeat protein 9 in a sample.