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aether

/ˈi.θɚ/

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What does aether mean?

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of ether.

proper noun

  1. One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of light, brother-husband of Hemera and grandson of Chaos.

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/ˈeɪ.θɚ/
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That which has the wave-motion is either aether or 'gross matter', but in either case is what the philosopher would call matter.
Bertrand RussellThe Problems of PhilosophyProject Gutenberg ebook #5827
The breath of man is within him, but the air or aether of heaven is the element which surrounds him and all things.
PlatoTimaeusTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1572
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Like Rontgen rays, it is probable that gamma-rays are wave-pulses in the luminiferous aether, though the possibility of explaining them as flights of non-electrified particles is before the minds of some physicists.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909
Let any one, with Polemo, take the world; or with the Stoics, the aether, or the sun; or with Anaximenes, the air, to be God; and what a divinity, religion, and worship must we needs have!
John LockeAn Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4Project Gutenberg ebook #10616
And, finally, the mystery of the seven vials and the seven stars of Saint John are written therein; for the Tablets are the hieroglyphic keys which unlock the realities of truth involved within the unrealities of external life, and open up, to the aspiring soul, inconceivable vistas of knowledge yet possible of realization, within the Divine womb of the uncreated Aether.
Thomas H. Burgoyne; Belle M. WagnerThe Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #1650