What was the composition of ether according to the ancients?

[jeane300]

https://cds.cern.ch/record/539311/files/ext-2002-016.pdf

What was the composition of ether according to the ancients?

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[Vanadium 50]

Isn't the ether made of...ether?

 

[Mondayman]

“There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge,”

 

[phinds]

What was the composition of ether according to the ancients?

Define "ancients". In the U.S. that generally means the ancient Greeks or earlier. Is that what you have in mind?

 

[Hornbein]

It wasn't composed of anything, ether just was. To 19th century scientists it had zero density and infinite rigidity, properties like that.

 

[pinball1970]

Aether was like 'air' in their eyes I suppose. Space? It's really hard to describe what it could be like without using the word aether!

The speed of light experiments Michelson Morley dispensed with the notion from memory.

Ether is a volatile liquid that we used euthanise a lot of insects at university.
It smells nice.

 

[jrmichler]

From Elements of Natural Philosophy, by Elroy M. Avery, Ph.D., Sheldon and Company, 1878 and 1885:

I knew there was a reason I kept that book. Important knowledge such as this must not be lost.

 

[phinds]

We still don't know what question we're answering since @jeane300 has not bothered to define what "ancients" she's talking about. To me 1878 is NOT "ancient", it's just slightly elderly. Like me, only more so.

 

[jeane300]

I knew there was a reason I kept that book. Important knowledge such as this must not be lost.

Fantastic connections , thanku very much.

 

[jeane300]

Define "ancients". In the U.S. that generally means the ancient Greeks or earlier. Is that what you have in mind?

Yes, I am talking about ancient Greeks and medieval science,

 

[jeane300]

Aether was like 'air' in their eyes I suppose. Space? It's really hard to describe what it could be like without using the word aether!

The speed of light experiments Michelson Morley dispensed with the notion from memory.

Ether is a volatile liquid that we used euthanise a lot of insects at university.
It smells nice.

It's funny because when we talk about 'ether' the reference is always the smell heheheh

 

[jeane300]

We still don't know what question we're answering since @jeane300 has not bothered to define what "ancients" she's talking about. To me 1878 is NOT "ancient", it's just slightly elderly. Like me, only more so.

I put, Greeks, and medieval science

 

[berkeman]

https://cds.cern.ch/record/539311/files/ext-2002-016.pdf

What was the composition of ether according to the ancients?

I put, Greeks, and medieval science

No, your OP had a link to more modern "ether/aether" topics, not ancient Greece.

This thread is a mess, and is now closed. Please PM me again to see if we can salvage a new thread start for whatever the heck you are really asking. Lordy.