The Ether of Space

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Author：Oliver Lodge
Update：08-15-2023
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Chapter 1
Chapter VIII that technical action at a distance is impossible. A body can only act immediately on what it is in contact with; it must be by the action of contiguous particles,--that is, practically, through a continuous medium, that force can be transmitted across s.p.a.ce. Radiation is not the only thing the earth feels from the sun; there is in addition its gigantic gravitative pull, _a force or tension more than what a million million steel rods_, _each seventeen feet in diameter_, _could stand_ (_see_ Chap. IX). What mechanism transmits this gigantic force? Again, take a steel bar itself: when violently stretched, with how great tenacity its parts cling together! Yet its particles are not in absolute contact, they are only virtually attached to each other by means of the universal connecting medium--the ether,--a medium that must be competent to transmit the greatest stresses which our knowledge of gravitation and of cohesion shows us to exist.
Chapter IV.]
Chapter X and Appendix 3.)
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter XVII of _Modern Views of Electricity_. But without repeating arguments here, it will suffice to say that although the estimates may be made in various ways, differing entirely from each other, yet the resulting differences are only slight; the calculated densities come out all of the same order of magnitude, namely, something comparable to 10 C.G.S.
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter III the subject of Aberration was treated in a simple and geometrical manner, but it is now time to deal with it more generally.
Chapter V.
Chapter V, shows that close to rapidly-moving opaque matter there is no disturbance either.
Chapter 14
Chapter X, thus:--