summerstay comments on Some concepts are like Newton's Gravity, others are like... Luminiferous Aether? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: summerstay 12 August 2015 03:27:16PM -1 points [-]

Under theories like loop quantum gravity, doesn't some "fabric of spacetime" exist? I would call that a refinement of the idea of the ether. It has odd properties in order to allow relativity, but it hasn't been ruled out.