That Thing with the Luminiferous Aether

Way back in the day when I was still deep in the Steampunk scene, my friend Alex and I wrote a book about the subculture, its roots, background etc.

One of the background infos I provided concerned the aether, or as I usually spell it æther. You can find it on page 58 of that book. In it, I point out that the discovery of the nonexistence of the aether led to the development of the Theory of Relativity.

And now Matthew John O’Dowd of PBS Space Time published a video in which he explains the whole thing in more detail and more scientifically astute than I ever could. Enjoy!

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