luminiferous aether

These user-created lists contain the word ‘luminiferous aether’.

• science fact or fiction

  pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction

  tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...

• [Open] Scientifictional

  Some of these make no sense outside of a fictional context (e.g., “ansible”); some have graduated to reality (“robot”); a few have been adopted into the vernacular with their meanings almost intact...

  grok, luminiferous aether, tachyon, quadro-triticale, Stanford torus

• somehow romantic

  abysmal, penumbra, synnecrosis, maelstrom, ephemeral, phantasmagoria, event horizon, escape velocity, vernal, brumal, opalescent, manifold and 27 more...