They called it the luminiferous aether, and once again space was A THING.

他们称它为发光的以太，空间再次成为现实。

Was there something else in the aether that forced Liz Truss his hand?

以太中是否还有其他东西迫使莉兹·特拉斯伸出手？

[INTRO] Ancient Greeks gave us the word " aether, " which has been used for centuries to describe space as a thing.

这个词，几个世纪以来， 这个词一直被用来描述空间。

That which has the wave-motion is either aether or 'gross matter', but in either case is what the philosopher would call matter.

具有波动的东西要么是以太， 要么是“总物质” ，但无论哪种情况都是哲学家所说的物质。

Einstein said " forget the aether." He said that light, different from any other kind of wave, could travel through empty space.

爱因斯坦说“忘记以太”。 他说光不同于任何其他类型的波，它可以在真空中传播。

In full disclosure, the scientific community has bet on the wrong horse before: alchemy, the geocentric model, spontaneous generation, and the interstellar aether are just a few of many theories discarded in favor of better ones.

总而言之，科学家们不是没有做出过错误的判断：炼金术，地心说，无生源说，还有星际以太这些只是被正确理论抛弃的 众多理论中的一小部分。

The idea that we're all swimming through an omnipresent invisible something, a master framework of space and time, may sound a bit like Einstein invented a new " aether, " but that's just like, your perspective man.

我们都游过一个无处不在的无形事物，一个空间和时间的主框架，这听起来有点像爱因斯坦发明了一种新的“以太”，但这就像，你的观点。