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The passage from the book reads: A vast amount of energy from the sun comes to earth daily, though the earth receives only a very small proportion of that which travels from the sun into space. The medium which transmits this energy through space is called ether. Through the ether, then, energy travels by radiation, and arriving at different receivers this radiant energy may produce one effect or another, according to the nature of each receiving body.

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The passage from the book reads: A vast amount of energy from the sun comes to earth daily, though the earth receives only a very small proportion of that which travels from the sun into space. The medium which transmits this energy through space is called ether. Through the ether, then, energy travels by radiation, and arriving at different receivers this radiant energy may produce one effect or another, according to the nature of each receiving body.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 17:00:26 UTC Robert McNees
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Michelson and Morley knew what they were looking for and how to measure it; it just wasn’t there. But faced with this null result, which Michelson and Morley continued to refine, physicists still clung to the idea of an aether. How else could you have waves?
Here is a page from "Lessons in Physics," a textbook written by Lothrop Higgins in 1903 – over 15 years after the Michelson-Morley experiment! – that presents the aether as a matter-of-fact.

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