So your question is what positivity can they find out of the aether?

所以你是，他们能从虚无中找到什么样积极因素？

They called it the luminiferous aether, and once again space was A THING.

他们称之为光以太，又次，空间成了个实体。

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“忘记以太吧”。 他认为光与其他任何类型波不同，可以在真空空间中传播。

[INTRO] Ancient Greeks gave us the word " aether, " which has been used for centuries to describe space as a thing.

几个世纪以来， 它被用来描述空间作为种实体。

That which has the wave-motion is either aether or 'gross matter', but in either case is what the philosopher would call matter.

具有波动东西要么是以太， 要么是“总物质” ，但无论哪种情况都是哲家所说物质。

By this time, others had introduced the effects of the new anaesthetics to a wider audience, and Long lost a subsequent legal bid to be declared the discoverer of aether anaesthesia.

到那时， 其他人已经将这些新麻醉剂效果介绍给了更广泛受众，朗在随后法律诉讼中未能被认定为以太麻醉发现者。

While they were busy worrying about something called " aether" , those ideas were lost to history just so Earth could maintain its place on a pedestal above the rest of the universe.

他们忙于担心个叫做“以太” 东西时，那些想法就失去了历史意义， 只是为了保持地球在宇宙中特殊地位。

Conceived by Descartes, embraced by Newton, and venerated by nearly everyone ever since, the aether held a position of absolute centrality in nineteenth-century physics as a way of explaining how light travelled across the emptiness of space.

由笛卡尔构思， 被牛顿接受，从那时起几乎受到所有人崇敬，以太在 19 世纪物理中占据绝对中心地位， 以解释光如何穿过虚空太空。

The idea that we're all swimming through an omnipresent invisible something, a master framework of space and time, may sound a bit like Einstein invented a new " aether, " but that's just like, your perspective man.

我们都在个无所不在无形东西中游动，这个东西是时空大框架，这听起来有点像爱因斯坦发明了种新“以太” ，但这就像， 你看法而已伙计。

Two years later, by now a professor at the Case School in Cleveland, Michelson became interested in trying to measure something called the aether drift, a kind of head-wind produced by moving objects as they ploughed through space.

两年后， 迈克尔逊现在是克利夫兰凯斯院（Case School）教授，他对尝试测量种叫做以太漂移东西产生了兴趣，这是种由移动物体在太空中犁地时产生逆风。