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From ether theory to ether theology: Oliver Lodge and the physics of immortality

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Book ID
102338103
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
250 KB
Volume
43
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5061

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Abstract

This article follows the development of physicist Oliver Lodge's religio‐scientific worldview, beginning with his reticent attraction to metaphysics in the early 1880s to the full formulation of his “ether theology” in the late 1890s. Lodge undertook the study of psychical phenomena such as telepathy, telekinesis, and “ectoplasm” to further his scientific investigations of the ether, speculating that electrical and psychical manifestations were linked phenomena that described the deeper underlying structures of the universe, beneath and beyond matter. For Lodge, to fully understand the ether was to force from the universe an ultimate Revelation, and psychical research—as the most modern and probatory science—was poised to replace religion as the means of that disclosure. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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