 The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe.... The study of this all-pervading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty of the physicist.  The Observatory - Page 3461909Full view - About this book
 | Gerald James Holton - 1986 - 372 pages
...as light, was a subject of great research interest. As JJ Thomson said as late as 1909, "The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe. . . . The study of this all-pervading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty... | |
 | Ernest J. Stevens - 1996 - 274 pages
...CORPUSCLES, SYSTEMS AND WORLDS. Prof. J. Thompson, the man who isolated the electron, has said: "The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe. . . . The study of this all-prevading substance is perhaps the most fascinating and important duty... | |
 | Bill Bryson - 2003 - 562 pages
...devotion to, an ether. As late as 1909, the great British physicist JJ Thomson was insisting: "The ether is not a fantastic creation of the speculative philosopher; it is as essential to us as the air we breathe"-this more than four years after it was pretty incontestably established that it didn't exist.... | |
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