Luminiferous aether or ether (luminiferous meaning 'light-bearing') was the postulated medium for the propagation of light. It was invoked to explain the...

of luminiferous aether (light-bearing aether) or ether as a medium for propagating electromagnetic radiation begins in the 18th century. The aether was...

experiment, and this result has been interpreted to mean that no luminiferous aether exists. The word αἰθήρ (aithḗr) in Homeric Greek means "pure, fresh...

medium towards the rarer?" In the 19th century, luminiferous aether (or ether), meaning light-bearing aether, was a theorized medium for the propagation of...

the theory of the luminiferous aether as the hypothetical medium for the propagation of light waves was widely discussed. The aether hypothesis arose because...

substance that propagates electromagnetic or gravitational forces Luminiferous aether, the postulated medium for the propagation of light Ether, a class...

electromagnetism and the lack of evidence for motion against the luminiferous aether. It has since been consistently confirmed by many experiments. It...

was an attempt to measure the motion of the Earth relative to the luminiferous aether, a supposed medium permeating space that was thought to be the carrier...

19th century theories of luminiferous aether. Augustin-Jean Fresnel proposed a correction due to the motion of a medium (the aether) through which light propagated...

electromagnetic waves could travel in a vacuum without the need of a medium or luminiferous aether. Einstein also developed general relativity, in which spacetime was...

role in scientific history in the generally discredited concept of luminiferous aether. As its orbit was perturbed and shortened, the shortening could only...

uninterested in the Michelson–Morley experiment on Earth's drift through a luminiferous aether. Conversely, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for explaining...

Newtonian physics. Ptolemy's law of refraction, replaced by Snell's law. Luminiferous aether – failed to be detected by the sufficiently sensitive Michelson–Morley...

need for a luminiferous aether to explain the transmission of light. Although a physical medium was no longer required, the concept of aether still did...

The term aether (also written as "ether") was adopted from ancient Greek philosophy and science into Victorian physics (see Luminiferous aether) and utilised...

Comet (and Comet Encke) had a role in the now-discredited concept of luminiferous aether: its orbit was found to be shrinking in size, which was ascribed...

according to which no motion of an observer with respect to the luminiferous aether ("aether drift") had been observed despite numerous attempts to do so...

vector field named the aether. The aether in this theory is "a Lorentz-violating vector field" unrelated to older luminiferous aether theories; the "Einstein"...

Orgone was seen as a massless, omnipresent substance, similar to luminiferous aether, but more closely associated with living energy than with inert matter...

emitted in all directions as a series of waves in a medium called the luminiferous aether. As waves are not affected by gravity, it was assumed that they slowed...

universe filled with a luminiferous aether retained support among some scientists until the early 20th century. This form of aether was viewed as the medium...

on the surface of a pond. This hypothetical medium was called the luminiferous aether, at rest relative to the "fixed stars" and through which the Earth...

its direction of motion. This paper also argued that the idea of a luminiferous aether—one of the leading theoretical entities in physics at the time—was...

that Metcalfe wrote on May 22, 1973, where he named it after the luminiferous aether once postulated to exist as an "omnipresent, completely passive medium...

existence of a stationary medium through which light propagated, the luminiferous aether, which was later shown not to exist. Mathematically, classical physics...

theory of relativity (SR), its predecessors like the theories of luminiferous aether, its early competitors, i.e.: Ritz’s ballistic theory of light, the...

contraction of an object according to one frame (as defined by the luminiferous aether) produced a measurable effect in the rest frame of the object, so...

search of a medium of propagation; the medium was called the luminiferous aether or the aether.: 279  In 1873 Maxwell addressed action at a distance explicitly...

motion of the Earth through the luminiferous aether as had been expected. This failure to confirm the presence of the aether would later provide support for...

propagation of light required a medium for the waves, dubbed the luminiferous aether. Over time, the existence of such a medium, permeating all space...