| Thus, with a swiftness approaching the speed of light itself, the luminiferous ether entered the graveyard of discredited scientific ideas. |
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| Called the ether, or the luminiferous ether, this medium was thought to permeate all of space. |
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| And I have been able to do so because I have become increasingly convinced that culture, like the luminiferous ether of nineteenth-century physics, doesn't do much work. |
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| So may one therefore conclude that the luminiferous ether doesn't exist? |
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| At that time, Maxwell believed that the propagation of light required a medium for the waves, dubbed the luminiferous aether. |
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| In 1851 he carried out a series of experiments in an attempt to detect the luminiferous ether a hypothetical material that was thought to occupy all of space and to be necessary for carrying the vibrations of light waves. |
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| Michelson-Morley experiment, an attempt to detect the velocity of the Earth with respect to the hypothetical luminiferous ether, a medium in space proposed to carry light waves. |
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| In the late 19th century, for example, there was a Susy-like hunt for the luminiferous aether, which almost all physicists then believed pervaded space and propagated light in the way that air propagates sound. |
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