6.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.
7.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.
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8.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.
9.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.