AnnaSalamon comments on Were atoms real? - Less Wrong

61 Post author: AnnaSalamon 08 December 2010 05:30PM

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Comment author: AnnaSalamon 08 December 2010 07:01:53PM *  0 points [-]

Well, I specified "luminiferous" (light-bearing) aether in the title, although I abbreviated this as simply "aether" in the rest of the section.

Comment author: byrnema 08 December 2010 07:14:12PM 0 points [-]

In the above, please consider "aether" replaced by "luminiferous aether". I suppose 'aether' could be vague enough to mean anything, and in that sense may be real, but I am curious about what aether needed to be in that particular theory in the 1800s.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 08 December 2010 07:20:01PM 1 point [-]

Done.