aether

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For instance I think the Michaelson-Morley experiment which disproved the existence of the aether is a brilliant piece of thinking.

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  1. a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
  2. personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness

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  • Since the aether was the medium for all electromagnetic waves, it made sense to say that the speed of light was 300,000 km/s relative to the aether. —  Strange Horizons Aug '01
  • For instance I think the Michaelson-Morley experiment which disproved the existence of the aether is a brilliant piece of thinking. —  Archaeoastronomy
  • "And as for age, I'd have thought you might have dried up and blown away by now. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • A new theory of the aether is also demanded in view of the recent experimental results of Professor Lebedew, and Nichols and Hull of —  Aether and Gravitation
  • Shines in the aether, and adorns the sky. —  Life Of Johnson
 

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