luminiferous

I thought to myself how the present system of the universe depends upon what we term the luminiferous ether; of the perfect elasticity and inexpansibility of that ether; of what its nature must be.

A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake

However, Victorian scientists did think there was something called the luminiferous ether.

I'd really rather dark matter didn't exist Brian Clegg 2010

However, Victorian scientists did think there was something called the luminiferous ether.

Archive 2010-03-01 Brian Clegg 2010

As late as 1884, Lord Kelvin expressed the view of virtually all physicists that electromagnetic fields required a physical medium in space, known as the luminiferous ether, by which they could manifest their wave properties.

Two Older Articles by Alan B Wallace William Harryman 2009

The koilon in which all these bubbles are formed undoubtedly represents a part, and perhaps the principal part, of what science describes as the luminiferous æther.

Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements Annie Wood Besant 1890

The existence of an all-pervasive medium called the luminiferous ether was launched as a theory.

Among the Forces Henry White Warren 1871

It has the best possible reasons for rejecting the idea of luminiferous particles; but, in support of the conclusion that the celestial spaces are occupied by matter, it is able to offer proofs almost as cogent as those which can be adduced of the existence of an atmosphere round the earth.

Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

The concept of God had always seemed unnecessary to her, like the luminiferous ether that was once believed to pervade the universe.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

Without that, theism has no more explanatory power than phlogiston or the luminiferous ether.

Attached to Strings 2009

The concept of God had always seemed unnecessary to her, like the luminiferous ether that was once believed to pervade the universe.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011