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Space and Æther

Nature volume 109, page 75 (1922)Cite this article

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THE relation of space and æther has been a subject of controversy. Three-dimensional absolute space has been regarded, before Einstein, as filled with a substantial æther. It is unnecessary to conceive the four-dimensional space-time of the relativists as so filled. If space-time is empty, is space also empty?

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RAMAMURTY, S. Space and Æther. Nature 109, 75 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109075a0

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