Misty Etheric | Elastic infinitely Propagation medium Filling unoccupied space |
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uperseded scientific theory. Once commonly accepted, the concept of a "luminiferous aether", meaning light-bearing ether, was used by late 19th century scientists to describe a medium for the propagation of light. Scientific theories must be susceptible to falsification.
“I do not know what this Aether is", but that if it consists of particles then they must be "exceedingly smaller than those of Air, or even than those of Light: The exceeding smallness of its Particles may contribute to the greatness of the force by which those Particles may recede from one another, and thereby make that Medium exceedingly more rare and elastick than Air, and by consequence exceedingly less able to resist the motions of Projectiles, and exceedingly more able to press upon gross Bodies, by endeavoring to expand itself.” - Isaac Newton
