And those made the aether and its supposed properties more dubious.

这些使得以太及其假定的属性更加可疑。

Aether had to be fluid, yet super rigid, and also… massless.

以太必须是流动的，但又超级坚硬，而… 有质量。

By the late 19th century, our equipment was generally sensitive enough that scientists could try and detect the aether.

到 19 世纪末，我们的设备普遍足够灵敏，科学家可以尝试探测以太。

In Latin, aether was renamed quintessence, and was a big ingredient in alchemy-based medicines.

在拉丁语中，以太被重新命名为精髓，是炼金术药的重要成分。

So no interference pattern meant no aether wind.

所以有干扰模就意味着有以太风。

Like, he specified that aether moved in circles, and crystal spheres of the stuff held the celestial bodies.

比如，他具体阐释以太在圆圈中移动，质的水晶球容纳着天体。

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。

To differentiate this more sciencey aether from its classical predecessor, scientists at the time called it the Luminiferous, or light-bearing, aether.

为了将这种更具科学性的以太与其经典的前身区分开来，当时的科学家称之为发光以太。

According to him, the aether was more dense around objects, so particles of light would scatter differently.

据他说，以太在体周围密度更大，所以光粒子会以不同的方。

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？

Their goal was to detect the relative motion of the Earth as it moved through stationary aether, because that supposedly created a " aether wind."

他们的目标是探测地球在静止的以太中移动时的相对运动，因为这据说会产生“以太风”。

[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“总质” ，但无论哪种情况都是哲学家所说的质。

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。

Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens believed light was a wave, and proposed it traveled through an " omnipresent, perfectly elastic medium having zero density, called aether."

荷兰理学家克里斯蒂安·惠更斯认为光是一种波，并提出它穿过“无处不在、完全弹性的零密度介质，称为以太”。

But in the 17th and 18th centuries, the aether was reinvented to explain new scientific studies about light — specifically, how it was able to move through space.

但是在 17 世纪和 18 世纪，以太被重新搬出来解释关于光的新科学研究——特别是，它是如何在太空中移动的。

Einstein also put a nail into the coffin of the luminiferous aether, when he used special relativity to show that equations governing the electromagnetic force didn't need aether at all.

爱因斯坦还在发光以太的棺材上钉了一颗钉子，当时他用狭义相对论证明控制电磁力的方程根本不需要以太。

Meanwhile, Isaac Newton treated light only as a particle, and used the aether to explain how light could refract, or appear to change direction when it encounters a new medium.

与此同时，艾萨克·牛顿将光视为粒子，并用以太解释了光在遇到新介质时是如何折或改变方向的。

But there are still a few people who think the puzzle hasn't been solved, and assert that aether might be out there and have some connection to dark energy or quantum field theory.

但是仍然有一些人认为这个谜题还有解决，并断言以太可能就在那里，与暗能量或量子场论有某种联系。

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。