This propagation medium was called the luminiferous aether and an attempt to detect and quantify this aether led to one of the coolest experimental setups of all time: the Michelson-Morely experiment.

MORLEY of Western Reserve Univ. it was designed to detect the motion of the earth through the "luminiferous aether," a theoretical substance which, according to 19th century physicists, was essential ...

Ocean waves move through oceans. So Maxwell believed light waves traveled through a substance known today as the appropriately old-timey "luminiferous aether." This "aether" (or "ether") had to ...

The model's two major components, dark energy and dark matter, have the character of the pre-twentieth-century luminiferous aether. While there is astronomical evidence for these hypothetical fluids, ...

Tell your friends. They must know the exaltation of biomechanical wings cutting graceful arcs through luminiferous aether. You can show them.” Beyond that, Chimeric has some additional updates ...