The physics of the ether

✍ Scribed by William B. Taylor

• Book ID: 103085291
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1876
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 848 KB
• Volume: 102
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(76)90448-8

✦ Synopsis

The Phyeim of the Ether. * Prof. Faraday seemed at one t,ime disposed to accept the idea of pure " force" being capable of exciting vibretion, as well as motion.

In 1346, he said : *I The view which I am so bold as to put forth, considers, therefore, radiation as a high species of vibration iu the lines of force Jvhich are knonn to connect particles, and also masses of matter together.

It endeavors to dismiss the ether, but not the vibrations." (L.

E, I)., I'hiln.

Jfq., 1845, xxviii, 318.) Light has a known rate of progression, how- ever, so that a ray starting from the Sun, reaches the planet Mercury in 3 minutes, Venus in 6 minutes, our Earth in 8 minutes, Mars in 12 minutes, Jupiter in 41 minutes, Saturn in 1 hour and f, Uranus in 2 hours a.nd d-, and lVeptune in 4 hours.

Ko such propagation exists in the case of gravity.