Sentences with phrase «luminiferous ether»

I deny that the luminiferous ether is necessary for the transmission of electromagnetic radiation.

Like Phlogiston, the Luminiferous Ether, the Earth being 20 million years Old (Kelvin), the miasma theory of cholera..........

I believe Sir Isaac Newton was a devoted alchemist and believed in the transmutation of metals and the luminiferous ether.

I have pointed out that I believe in the GHE with equal fervour to my belief in the existence of the luminiferous ether or the caloric theory of heat.

All the attempts to argue from authority are about as silly as Lord Kelvin espousing the caloric theory of heat, Newton's belief in alchemy, or even the widespread belief in the luminiferous ether.

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

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

Maybe it's on the shelf between Ether (luminiferous), and Phlogiston.

It now sits on my shelf between «Ether, Luminiferous» and «Phlogiston».