Sentences with word «luminiferous»

In 1704 Isaac Newton chimed in and declared that it consisted of particles that moved through a medium called luminiferous aether, which pervaded the universe.

You're absolutely correct that there was consensus at one point about luminiferous aether, and it was proven to be BS because of new evidence.

In the 1880s, Albert Michelson tried to measure the «luminiferous ether» that scientists thought was the carrier of light.

They were trying to detect variations in the speed of light to prove the existence of the «luminiferous aether,» a perfectly immobile, transparent, and mysterious substance that was thought to pervade the universe.

In Maxwell's time, most physicists thought that light, like sound, needed some kind of medium for transmission; the mysterious, invisible substance they hypothesized, called the luminiferous ether, would presumably be influenced by the motion of Earth around the sun and the movement of the solar system through the galaxy, a dynamic that stood to alter the speed of light depending on the relative direction from which that light came.

The idea of describing space - time as a fluid undergoing phase transitions (17 March, p 30) sounds suspiciously like a «luminiferous...

Luminiferous aether was accepted as fact until the famous Michelson - Morley experiment, which attempted to detect the «aether wind» created by the flow of aether across the moving Earth.

I would go further: these explanations remind me of nothing so much as phlogiston or the luminiferous ether — other arbitrary inventions with no physical basis conjured up to explain observations that contradicted existing assumptions.

We do not stream through the luminiferous ether, but it does wobble a bit.

In the late 19th century, all the talk was of the luminiferous ether, a medium which was thought to carry light.

Do you know who showed that phlogiston and the luminiferous aether didn't exist?