| 单词 | aether |
| 例句 | One day we may discover that some of our most cherished forms of knowledge are as obsolete as epicycles, phlogiston, caloric, the electromagnetic aether and, indeed, Newtonian physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the famous Michelson-Morley experiment demonstrated that such an aether does not exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The heavens are made out of aether, or quintessence, which is translucent and unchanging, neither hot nor cold, dry nor damp. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was once thought, in the days before relativity, that light did propagate through a special medium that permeated all of space, called “the luminiferous aether.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Paige is a dreamwalker, which means that movie audiences will some day be treated to phantasmagorical scenes of Paige wandering through what “The Bone Season” calls the aether. Books of The Times: Samantha Shannon’s Fantasy Novel, ‘The Bone Season’ 2013-08-26T22:00:29Z Maxwell discovered that electricity and magnetism were linked, but he erroneously believed light waves were vibrations in an invisible “aether”. The uncanny physics of empty space 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z In its place, Lunenfeld overworks a flimsy metaphor, tenuously mapping the alchemical elements of earth, air, fire, water and aether onto his 11 chapters. The City of Angels, Viewed Through a Prism 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Aristotle, for example, thought that heavenly bodies were made of a theoretical form of matter called aether and naturally moved in circles. Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Until the experiment was performed in 1887, scientists believed that light waves propagate through a medium that scientists called the luminiferous aether. The Most Surprising Discoveries in Physics 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z For instance, the aether — a theoretical space-filling medium rejected in Einstein’s relativity — is still “anything but empty”. From sci-fi reality to sound, jet stream to light speed: Books in brief 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Anyone with a story to tell and a computer to record can put that story out into the aether. In the race to turn podcasts into TV shows, the podcasts are winning 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z For example, in 1887, an optical interferometer — a sensor based on wave interference — was used to disprove the existence of luminiferous aether, a universal medium through which light waves were thought to propagate1. Exploring the Universe with matter waves 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z And that doesn’t just disappear off into the aether either. Greek Debt Deal: Let's Lie About The Debt Instead Of Having A Debt Reduction 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z But an experiment by two Americans, Albert Michelson and Edward Morley, showed that the aether does not exist. Come out, come out, wherever you are! 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The invisible aether - the quantum consciousness - is merely the interpretation of a much larger, majestic force - elusive and anonymous to mankind. Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z It was thought at the time that light was the result of vibrations in an invisible “aether” that pervaded the universe. Atomic interferometry: The function of waves 2013-05-09T15:00:31Z But there’s a huge amount of misinformation floating about in the aether. On The Necessity of Geology 2013-03-21T13:15:03.323Z In Kelvin's vision, the fluid was the theoretical ‘aether’ then thought to pervade all of space. Physicists Twist Water into Knots 2013-03-06T15:45:03.657Z In the late 19th century, for example, there was a Susy-like hunt for the luminiferous aether, which almost all physicists then believed pervaded space and propagated light in the way that air propagates sound. Come out, come out, wherever you are! 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z In the north-east a great crudded cloud lifted its soaring towers into the blue heart of the awful aether. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z The strong sunshine seemed to sting us to vigour; it was aether rather than air that we breathed. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Newton had at first accepted the Cartesian system of celestial vortices of aether that swirled the planets and comets around their orbits. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z It took subsequent physicists to determine that such an aether was both non-existent and unnecessary. A bold unifying leap 2011-03-16T18:20:01.107Z Air, he knew, as Joan used the term, meant aether, the mother of all air. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z And through the process of waste thus set on foot, they finally dissolved into the aether, and expired “like spinning insects.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" To the poet's instructed vision aether opens and earth becomes transparent. 18-24. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes First are separated out the warm, dry, and light particles, and these form the aether or upper air. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy "But I myself am an upholder of ultimate continuity, and a fervent believer in the aether of space." God and the World A Survey of Thought The return to London was a return to the demands of earth; from the bright and fiery aether of the southern climate they landed with something of a jar among sooty bricks and black-edged mortar. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z In some cases they come and go, or dissolve into an aether round the sun; but in other cases they gradually increase until they form a dense crust round the central nucleus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" We have drifted from the aether of Keats to the earth of Fielding, yet under the guidance of the same author. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Only after the blue aether had been perceived and named, was it possible to conceive and speak of the sky as active, as an agent, as a god. My Autobiography A Fragment Unseen she kissed the forehead of her bride, and fanned the prince, and then mounted with the other children of the air to a rosy cloud that floated through the aether. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen One of those sunny, golden days he was sauntering as usual down Broadway, enjoying the clear aether which was troubled by neither smoke nor cloud. A Red Wallflower A new theory of the aether is also demanded in view of the recent experimental results of Professor Lebedew, and Nichols and Hull of America. Aether and Gravitation It is like a fairy dwelling, a gnomic palace built of the aether of dreams. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 You had some show of reason when, with the case of sound before you, you assumed your aether to be a gas in the last extremity of attenuation. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Into its experiences in the aether I do not need to go here. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus The moon soon rose large and clear, a brilliant globe floating in aether rather than the pale-coloured disc which it appears in England. The Log House by the Lake A Tale of Canada He adds that a stone, piece of brass, water, air, aether, are particles of matter, while springs, water-power, wind, waves, heat and electric currents are examples of energy associated with Matter. Aether and Gravitation He really was convinced that in man there was a portion of that diviner aether which dwelt eternally in the heavens, and was the ever-moving cause of all things. A Short History of Greek Philosophy Simple atoms glide through the aether without much resistance; compound ones encounter resistance, and hence yield up more speedily their motion to the aether. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Floating in this blue aether, what the devil is my wife to me, and her dirty Earth! Ixion In Heaven Our sagacious author believes that the air and even the purest aether have their denizens as well as the water and the earth. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil It is impossible, however, to reconcile gravitational phenomena with the present conception of the universal aether medium, and a new theory is therefore demanded, before the long-sought-for explanation will be forthcoming. Aether and Gravitation About this chaos was spread the air and aether, infinite also in the multitude of their particles, and infinitely extended. A Short History of Greek Philosophy Take for example the idea of an all-pervading aether which transmits a tingle, so to speak, to the finger ends of the universe every time a street lamp is lighted. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 In soaring above the region of phenomena and entering the tenuous aether of noumena, her present wings, which we call her methods, would in such an atmosphere be no longer of any service for movement. Thoughts on Religion The aether, the sun, the moon, and still more the five planetary gods, are something above and beyond those parts of nature. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. It is logically impossible to reconcile a frictionless aether, with their results relative to the pressure of light waves. Aether and Gravitation The lighter atoms he imagined flew to the outmost rim of the eddy, there constituting the heavenly fires and the heavenly aether. A Short History of Greek Philosophy It has been recently shown that waves of aether issuing from a strong source, such as the sun or the electric light, are competent to shake asunder the atoms of gaseous molecules. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The question is not so much whether such allocutions are Christian—which they possibly may be in Mr. Arnold's clearer aether—as whether they are adapted to his purpose of winning. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Newton had first accepted the Cartesian system of celestial vortices of aether that swirled the planets and comets around their orbits. Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. If aether is matter, then, to be strictly logical and philosophical, it must possess the properties of matter as revealed by observation and experiment. Aether and Gravitation Thus it is that Empedocles taught: By earth earth we perceive; by water, water; by aether, aether; fire, by destructive fire; by friendship, friendship; and strife by bitter strife. Simon Magus With all our belief of it, it will be well to keep the theory of a luminiferous aether plastic and capable of change. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 But what are all these, when compared with those that fill the whole expanse, the boundless field of aether? Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author He claimed to have discovered—by ordinary inductive experiment—that the constituents of aether possessed certain functions, and moved in certain figures obedient to certain mathematical laws. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies To be strictly logical and philosophical, the author was compelled to postulate similar properties for the aether, or else his hypotheses would contravert the results of all experience. Aether and Gravitation If the sand could bear such traces, and tell such tales, who shall say that the plastic aether was destitute of the story of the fight and the butchery? The Blue Lagoon: a romance As in the case of the aether, beyond the 'as if' you cannot go. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 But the aether at a great distance must in any case be at rest; while the facts of astronomical aberration require that the motion of that medium must be irrotational. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Well, it seems he had been working for years at the ultimate problem of matter, and especially of that rarefied matter we call aether or space. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies It will be shown that Clerk Maxwell also definitely affirms the atomicity of the aether, while Tyndall and Huyghens also use the term “particles of aether” over and over again. Aether and Gravitation Some plant that ceases thus to share, A daily friend's auspicious care, Relaxes in its feeble grasp, The flow'ry tendrils soon unclasp, Loose in the heedless aether play, And every idle breeze obey! Poems Nay, I should not wonder if a close comparison of the data on which both inferences rest, caused many respectable persons to conclude that the aether had the best of it. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The only aether which has survived is that which was invented by Huygens to explain the propagation of light. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 I told him No. I mean just empty, void, nothing but blank aether. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies With an atomic and gravitative aether it is shown in Chapter IV. how the elasticity, density, and inertia of the medium are brought into harmony with all observation and experiments. Aether and Gravitation I feel the flow of Death's youth-giving flood; To balsam and aether, it Changes my blood! Rampolli Like you and me they one and all believe in an aether and its light-producing waves. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Now this doctrine of material atoms is an almost necessary corollary to the doctrine of a universal aether. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 He found our friend all covered with soot, like a chimney-sweeper, in a little room, with an intolerable heat and strange smell, as if he had been acting Lungs in the Alchymist, making aether. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 The Electro-Magnetic Theory of Light also receives fresh light from the new theory of an atomic and gravitating aether. Aether and Gravitation A cold north wind blew unkindly over the torpid plain, and the wonderland first froze, then evaporated into aether. Rampolli The cloud takes no note of size on the part of the waves of aether, but reflects them all alike. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The question of whether the aether is carried along by the earth's motion has been considered from the early days of the undulatory theory of light. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 There was enchantment, mystery, and a living motion in its depths, the presence of all-pervading Zeus enfolding his starry children with the dark radiance of aether. Imaginations and Reveries It is suggested that aether and electricity are one and the same medium, both being a form of matter, and both possessing exactly the same properties, viz. atomicity, weight, density, elasticity, inertia, and compressibility. Aether and Gravitation Some poets are on the earth; some are in the air; some, like Shelley, are in the aether. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Now the cause of this may be that the cloud particles are so large, in comparison with the waves of aether, as to reflect them all indifferently. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 If the aether were itself constituted of discrete molecules, on the model of material bodies, such transparency would not be conceivable. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 This latter kind of fire, which was known as aether, was the substance of the heavenly bodies, as it was also of the soul of animals and of the 'nature' of plants. Guide to Stoicism It becomes perfectly clear, therefore, why air, aether, oxygen, and hydrogen are termed Matter. Aether and Gravitation The mother bird, meanwhile, sailed restlessly about the aether watching every movement, as I could see by my glasses; at times she drifted quite near, then swerved again and hovered, with vibrating pinions, directly overhead. Old Calabria Follow in the same manner a train of aether-waves to their source; remembering at the same time that your aether is matter, dense, elastic, and capable of motions subject to, and determined by, mechanical laws. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 These conditions cannot be consistent with sensible convection of the aether near the earth without involving discontinuity in its motion at some intermediate distance, so that we are thrown back on the previous theory. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Now the active principle was not air, but it was something which bore an analogy to it—namely aether. Guide to Stoicism Is it due, as Newton himself suggested, to the properties and qualities of the universal aether, or is it due to some still unknown and undiscovered medium? Aether and Gravitation One grows weary, none the less, of the deluge of implacable light that descends, day after day, from the aether. Old Calabria The waves generated in the aether by the swinging atoms of luminous bodies are of different lengths and amplitudes. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 It has further been verified by Sir Oliver Lodge that even in very narrow spaces the aether is not entrained by its surroundings when they are put into rapid motion. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 In the efflagration the two would be fused into one in the single substance of aether. Guide to Stoicism And the aether of the world to be full of the trouble of the Peoples, as the Man past me; and afterward there to be a stirring of glad thankfulness. The Night Land For if the pressure of the aether be the adequate cause of cohesion, wherever that cause operates not, there can be no cohesion. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 There will be on the part of those particular rays a transference of motion from the agitated aether to the atoms of the volatilised metal, which, as already defined, is absorption. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 These results constitute a far-reaching development of the modern or electrodynamic theory of the aether, of which the issue can hardly yet be foreseen. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Truly, children of the aether,—and so, children of fire. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 And at the sixteenth hour, I did seem as that I knew the aether to be stirred about me, and the beat of the Master-Word very faint upon mine inward ear. The Night Land Newton had first believed in the Cartesian system of celestial vortices of aether than swirled the planets and comets around their orbits. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III As we introduce waves of shorter period the sulphuric aether augments most rapidly in opacity; that is to say, its accord with the shorter waves is greater than that of the formic. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Another powerful reason for taking the aether to be stationary is afforded by the character of the equations of electrodynamics; they are all of linear type, and superposition of effects is possible. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Jean Paul says that the roots of humankind are the lungs, and that, being rooted in air,—we are properly children of the aether. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 And oft I harked into the night of the Land; but there was nowhere any sound, or disturbing of the aether, to trouble me. The Night Land The fire, the air, the water, the earth, and the aether; you cannot have these outside of Him. Songs of Kabir Imagine our simple atoms swinging like single spheres in the aether; they cannot create the swell which a group of them united to form a system can produce. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Various types of elastic solid medium have thus been invented to represent the aether, without complete success in any case. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Plato keeps the two vases, one of aether and one of pigment, at his side, and invariably uses both. Representative Men And, immediately, I sent the Master-Word into the night; and all the aether was full of movement. The Night Land There was no talk then of psychic manifestations, or auras, or telepathy, or spiritual aether. Without Prejudice Such increased knowledge has radically changed our conceptions of the luminiferous aether, converting its vibrations from longitudinal into transverse. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 If this relation is true along all paths, the velocity of the aether must be of irrotational type, like that of frictionless fluid. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 In dream Cuchullain saw the earth- scorning warriors rise up and wage their battle in the bright aether, and the great Sun-Chieftain, shining like gold, lead his glittering hosts. AE in the Irish Theosophist But of them all, none had the Night-Hearing, to know a soul having speech in the aether half across the world. The Night Land Again I stood under the diaphanous skies, in air glorious as aether, whose every breath raises men's spirits like sparkling wine. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 The sensation of light is excited by waves of aether shorter and more quickly recurrent than the non-visual waves which fall beyond 'the extreme red. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The aether is taken to be at rest; and the strain-forms belonging to the atoms are the electric fields of the intrinsic charges, or electrones, involved in their constitution. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 With wondrous red and fairy gold The clouds were woven o'er the ocean; The stars in fiery aether swung And danced with gay and glittering motion. AE in the Irish Theosophist And sudden, I heard the thrilling of the aether all about me, and the voice of Naani in my soul, speaking. The Night Land As her eyes wandered along the boundless aether, her thoughts rose, as before, towards the sublimity of the Deity, and to the contemplation of futurity. The Mysteries of Udolpho But it cannot be doubted that the same effect would be produced by radiant heat of the same periods, provided the motion of the aether could be rendered sufficiently intense. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Convection of Optical Waves.—The nature of the motion, if any, that is produced in the surrounding regions of the aether by the translation of matter through it can be investigated by optical experiment. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Anaxagoras, that those styled shooting stars descend from the aether like sparks, and therefore are soon extinguished. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies And the counter-force was plain to my inward hearing, and beat all the aether of the world into a surge of supplication; so that it stunned my spirit with the great power of it. The Night Land The red glow of sun-set still touched the waves, and lingered in the west, where the melancholy gleam seemed slowly expiring, while the dark blue of the upper aether began to twinkle with stars. The Mysteries of Udolpho This result gives us a clear view of the relationship of the two substances to the luminiferous aether. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Lord Kelvin was thereby induced to identify magnetic force with rotation, involving, therefore, angular momentum in the aether. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Aristotle, that it is the inflammation of dry, copious, and coherent vapor, by which the fiery mane, whose seat is beneath the aether and the planets, is produced. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies And as I went downward through the miles, lo! all the aether of the world seemed to be surged with the silent prayers and speedings of those quiet multitudes. The Night Land In the days when the aether was less in doubt, we should have said that what was happening was a certain kind of transverse vibration in the aether. The Analysis of Mind Hence we may infer that the atoms of formic aether oscillate, on the whole, more slowly than those of sulphuric aether. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The body is simply a large hydraulic machine, controlled by "the aether" or "sensitive soul," and the chief centre of this soul lies in the medulla. A History of Science — Volume 4 Empedocles, that they are fiery bodies arising from that fire which the aether embraced within itself, and did shatter in pieces when the elements were first separated one from another. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies For as I did go among the bushes, there broke sudden all around me in the aether, the low and solemn beat of the Master-Word. The Night Land That it is invisible, and so are its reasons, since the aether itself is invisible. A History of Science — Volume 1 When the source of heat is a Leslie's cube coated with lampblack and filled with boiling water, the opacity of formic aether in comparison with sulphuric is very decided. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 But why should we not discuss another kind of Gods—the sun, moon, stars, earth, aether, air, fire, water, the seasons, and the year? Cratylus And there are varieties of air, as for example, the pure aether, the opaque mist, and other nameless forms. Timaeus There hung Hypnos fast, ere the vision of Zeus was observant, Mounted upon a tall pine-tree, tallest of pines that on Ida Lustily spring off soil for the shoot up aloft into aether. Poems — Volume 3 Moreover, that a ray from the sun penetrated both the cold aether and the dense aether; and they call the air the cold aether, and the sea and moisture they call the dense aether. A History of Science — Volume 1 The molecular vibration once set up is instantly shared with the aether, and diffused by it throughout space. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The cloud canopy above us may be thick enough to shut out the light of the stars; but this canopy is itself a warm body, which radiates its thermal motion through the aether. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The breath of man is within him, but the air or aether of heaven is the element which surrounds him and all things. Timaeus The aether at the focus, and not the air, is the substance in which the heat is embodied. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 And that the soul is a something tom off from the aether, both warm and cold, from its partaking of the cold aether. A History of Science — Volume 1 From the phenomena of sound, as displayed in the air, they ascended to the phenomena of light, as displayed in the aether; which is the name given to the interstellar medium. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 This was not the first conception of the aether, but it is that forced upon us by a more complete knowledge of its phenomena. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 He observed that earth, water, and air had settled down to their places, and he imagined fire or the exterior aether to have a place beyond air. Timaeus For, the loss of heat being simply the abstraction of molecular motion by the aether, where this medium is absent no cooling could occur. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Darkness might then be defined as aether at rest; light as aether in motion. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 A body thus constituted may have its boundaries; but, although the aether may not be co-extensive with space, it must at all events extend as far as the most distant visible stars. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 There is here no sensible transference of motion from the aether to the molecules; in other words, there is no sensible absorption of heat. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Beyond the aether dark suns might burn; there, under proper conditions, combustion might be carried on; fuel might consume unseen, and metals be fused in invisible fires. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Thus, like a pendulum, they oscillate, until their motion is imparted to the surrounding aether; or, in other words, until their heat becomes radiant heat. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 But in reality the aether is never at rest, for in the absence of light-waves we have heat-waves always speeding through it. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 If the aether have a boundary, masses of ponderable matter might be conceived to exist beyond it, but they could emit no light. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 I have proved that a shell of air two inches in thickness surrounding our planet, and saturated with the vapour of sulphuric aether, would intercept 35 per cent. of the earth's radiation. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 In all cases it was the transference of motion from the aether to the comparatively quiescent molecules of the gas or vapour that occupied our thoughts. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 That is to say, we must figure them vibrating, and generating in the surrounding aether undulations which speed through it with the velocity of light. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 By showing, that by the assumption of this wonderful intangible aether, all the phenomena of optics are accounted for, with a fulness, and clearness, and conclusiveness, which leave no desire of the intellect unsatisfied. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 As far as our knowledge of space extends, we are to conceive it as the holder of the luminiferous aether, through which are interspersed, at enormous distances apart, the ponderous nuclei of the stars. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 It is the motion of these atoms, and not that of any sensible parts of bodies, that the aether conveys. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 An atom, then, sending its pulses through the aether, resembles a tuning-fork sending its pulses through the air. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Every vibration of every atom of our platinum wire raises in this aether a wave, which speeds through it at the rate of 186,000 miles a second. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The aether, as far as we know, accepts vibrations of all periods with the same readiness. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 It is the ceaseless thrill caused by those distant orbs collectively in the aether, that constitutes what we call the 'temperature of space.' Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Thus, while the atoms of elementary gases proved themselves unable to emit any sensible amount of radiant heat, the molecules of compound gases were shown to be capable of powerfully disturbing the surrounding aether. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The atoms and molecules of every gas e certain definite rates of oscillation, and those waves aether are most copiously absorbed whose periods recurrence synchronise with those of the atomic ups amongst which they pass. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 An atom, vibrating in the aether, resembles a naked tuning-fork vibrating in the air. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 On similar, and, if possible, on stronger grounds, we found our belief in the existence of the universal aether. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Through air, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen, the waves of aether pass without absorption, and these gases are not sensibly changed in temperature by the most powerful calorific rays. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 If a single phenomenon could be pointed out which the aether is proved incompetent to explain, we should have to give it up; but no such phenomenon has ever been pointed out. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The aether which conveys the pulses of light and heat not only fills celestial space, swathing suns, and planets, and moons, but it also encircles the atoms of which these bodies are composed. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 It proves the aether at the focus to be practically detached from the air, — that the most violent aethereal motion may there exist, without the least aerial motion. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Given the nature of a disturbance in water, air, or aether — knowing the physical qualities of the medium we can infer how its particles will be affected. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Ages ago the elementary constituents of our rocks clashed together and produced the motion of heat, which was taken up by the aether and carried away through stellar space. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 |
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