Today I overheard some guys talking about that we call vacuum a vacuum and don't use the somewhat more fiting word aether just because Eistein didn't like it because it was associated with pre relativistic concept of lumiferous aether. Is that true?

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Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:19:45 2012 No.4896157 [Reply] [Original]

Today I overheard some guys talking about that we call vacuum a vacuum and don't use the somewhat more fiting word aether just because Eistein didn't like it because it was associated with pre relativistic concept of lumiferous aether.

Is that true?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:22:15 2012 No.4896164 What exactly makes aether "somewhat more fitting"?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:22:31 2012 No.4896166 Who cares? If it's true, it's semantics.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:27:00 2012 No.4896175 The word ather wasn't used because it had very specific implications at the time. Implications that where explicitly wrong. It was everything wrong with the past paradigm so using it for the new theory would be pedagogically unsound.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:45:30 2012 No.4896241 >>4896164 Vacuum means empty space. Today we know it isn't actually empty.

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