What is Ether Space?

Can someone explain this to me?

Thanks.

"Marshall Karp" wrote in news:%d9_g.21$6f4.6
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Can someone explain this to me?

It's the empty space between your ears.

--Damon

I think you have the spelling incorrect, but as I've never seen it written
either, I cannot help here. Is this not the 'stuff' which some people think
is what empty space is made of? A kind of stuff which restricts the speed of
light.

Interesting concept, but its a bit academic, as we cannot detect it, and
its not needed for calculations, at least, not at the moment. Its a very old
concept, as I recall.

Briant etc,

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"Marshall Karp" wrote in message
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Can someone explain this to me?

Thanks.

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:05:44 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

I think you have the spelling incorrect, but as I've never seen it written
either, I cannot help here. Is this not the 'stuff' which some people think
is what empty space is made of? A kind of stuff which restricts the speed of
light.

Interesting concept, but its a bit academic, as we cannot detect it, and
its not needed for calculations, at least, not at the moment. Its a very old
concept, as I recall.

Isn't that where the old saying "it disappeared into the ether"
(meaning 'gone forever') comes from?

Brian

Quite possibly, but when I hear it on here it sounds more like eava than
ether, but then it may be just nobody can spell.

Brian

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On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:05:44 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

I think you have the spelling incorrect, but as I've never seen it written
either, I cannot help here. Is this not the 'stuff' which some people
think
is what empty space is made of? A kind of stuff which restricts the speed
of
light.

Interesting concept, but its a bit academic, as we cannot detect it, and
its not needed for calculations, at least, not at the moment. Its a very
old
concept, as I recall.

Isn't that where the old saying "it disappeared into the ether"
(meaning 'gone forever') comes from?

Brian

Marshall Karp wrote:
Can someone explain this to me?

Waves (like water, and sound) need a medium to travel through. It is
impossible for ocean waves to exist if there's no ocean. It is
impossible for sound waves to exist if there's no air or other
substance. A few centuries ago it was noticed that light was a wave
(as proven by interference patterns). Therefore it was realised that
outer space must be full of something, so that light from the sun and
stars would have a medium in which to travel. Nobody knew what that
substance was, but they gave it a provisional name, 'Aether' (Americans
called it 'Ether').

Of course it turns out that light is both a wave and a particle, so
aether was not needed (and didn't exist) after all.

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether

Well, gravity has to propagate as well, we may yet find that something
exists, even if its not what they originally thought was there.

I mean, we only know about the things we can detect, and most of this has
come from observation with the senses we have, so its probable that some
kind of 'stuff' is just not found from the sensors we can devise.

Anyway, we do digress....

Brian

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Marshall Karp wrote:
Can someone explain this to me?

Waves (like water, and sound) need a medium to travel through. It is
impossible for ocean waves to exist if there's no ocean. It is
impossible for sound waves to exist if there's no air or other
substance. A few centuries ago it was noticed that light was a wave
(as proven by interference patterns). Therefore it was realised that
outer space must be full of something, so that light from the sun and
stars would have a medium in which to travel. Nobody knew what that
substance was, but they gave it a provisional name, 'Aether' (Americans
called it 'Ether').

Of course it turns out that light is both a wave and a particle, so
aether was not needed (and didn't exist) after all.

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether