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Brief History of the Aether
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Table of Contents
Part I - The Scientists and Their Affect on the Aether Theory
The Greeks
Descartes
Hooke and Huygens
Newton
Young and Fresnel
James Bradley
Maxwell
Michelson and Morley
Lorentz and Fitzgerald
Einstein
Part II – The Current State of Physics
New Theories Lead to New Problems
A Question of Logic
The Possibility of the Reinstatement of the Aether
Part III – Towards a New Theory of the Aether
The Restriction of the Ether to Being Only the Luminiferous Ether
The Constancy of the Speed of Light and the Special Theory of Relativity
The Aether as Immobile: The Michelson-Morley Experiment
The Aether as Immobile: Stellar Aberration
The Aether as Much Denser than Steel
Light as a Dualistic Transverse Wave/Photon