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

所你问题是，他们能从虚无中找到什积极因素？

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.

当他们忙于担心一个叫做“” 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。

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，在随后法律诉讼中未能被认定为麻醉发现者。

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

具有波动东西要是， 要是“总物质” ，但无论哪种情况都是哲学家所说物质。

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，在 19 世纪物理学中占据绝对中心地位， 解释光如何穿过虚空空。

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.

我们都在一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一种新“” ，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学院（Case School）教授，他对尝试测量一种叫做漂移东西产生了兴趣，这是一种由移动物体在空中犁地时产生逆风。

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

他们称之为光，又一次，空间成了一个实体。

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“忘记吧”。 他认为光与其他任何类型波不同，可在真空空间中传播。

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

几个世纪来， 它被用来描述空间作为一种实体。