In physics the Einstein-aether theory, also called aetheory, is the name coined in 2004 for a modification of general relativity that has a preferred reference...

luminiferous aether, rather than a spatial vacuum, provided the theoretical medium that was required by wave theories of light. The aether hypothesis was...

In the history of physics, aether theories (or ether theories) proposed the existence of a medium, a space-filling substance or field as a transmission...

aether for the transmission of these forces. Einstein noted that his own model which replaced these theories could itself be thought of as an aether,...

ether theory (LET) has its roots in Hendrik Lorentz's "theory of electrons", which marked the end of the development of the classical aether theories at...

A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity is any of three books written by British mathematician Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE on the...

The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated physics theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity, proposed...

Henri Poincaré and others. It culminated in the theory of special relativity proposed by Albert Einstein and subsequent work of Max Planck, Hermann Minkowski...

century, the theory of the luminiferous aether as the hypothetical medium for the propagation of light waves was widely discussed. The aether hypothesis...

special relativity, which rules out motion against an aether. Of this experiment, Albert Einstein wrote, "If the Michelson–Morley experiment had not brought...

special theory of relativity, or special relativity for short, is a scientific theory of the relationship between space and time. In Albert Einstein's 1905...

Michelson–Morley experiment on Earth's drift through a luminiferous aether. Conversely, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric...

indistinguishable from the aether theory of Lorentz and Poincaré, since both theories satisfy the relativity principle of Poincaré and Einstein, and both employ...

History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. Vol. 1. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-26126-3. OCLC 20357018. "Did Einstein discover E =...

but he argues that this aether is perfectly undetectable. 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes an observationally equivalent theory, but complete with a derivation...

relativity. In theories that presume that light travels at a fixed speed relative to an unmodifiable and detectable luminiferous aether, a preferred frame...

Albert Einstein presented the theories of special relativity and general relativity in publications that either contained no formal references to previous...

equivalence principle. A number of alternative theories, such as Brans–Dicke theory and the Einstein-aether theory add additional fields. Some of the tests...

named after Albert Einstein. Bose–Einstein condensate Bose–Einstein correlations Bose–Einstein statistics Einstein aether theory Einstein's equivalence principle...

formulation of Newton's law of gravity. This was superseded by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in the early 20th century. Greek philosopher Aristotle...

thought experiment being at all incompatible with aether theories (which it is not), the youthful Einstein appears to have reacted to the scenario out of...

aberration and the Fizeau experiment, but was discarded when Albert Einstein introduced his theory of relativity. Despite this, the expression light-dragging has...

T. (1910). A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity (1 ed.). Dublin: Longman, Green and Co. p. 441. Einstein, Albert (2017), Relativity -...

Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also...

Electrodynamics and Classical Theory of Fields & Particles. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486640389. Einstein, Albert (2004) [1920]. Relativity...

the idea of a luminiferous aether—one of the leading theoretical entities in physics at the time—was superfluous. (Einstein 1905c) In his paper on mass–energy...

conductor problem, the negative aether drift experiments, as well as the Fizeau experiment, led Albert Einstein to develop the theory of special relativity in...

any action at a distance. These theories were developed from the 16th until the 19th century in connection with the aether. However, such models are no longer...

and Em. Keller presented a theory by using a Le Sage type mechanism in combination with longitudinal waves of the aether. They supposed that those waves...

in quantum field theory is filled with virtual particles. The quantum vacuum is often viewed as a modern version of an aether theory. Some would consider...