With big outstanding questions and little hints of new physics, physicists are now rethinking some of their most fundamental ...

They attempted to measure the luminiferous aether - the invisible, all-pervasive medium through which light was thought to propagate. Their experimental design was so ingenious it couldn’t ...

I refer to the nature and properties of the so-called luminiferous ether. This subject is, in one respect, specially fascinating, scientifically considered. It lies, we may say, in an especial ...

Discover how Einstein’s theory of special relativity reshaped physics by linking space, time, mass, and energy in a universe governed by the speed of light. Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of ...

the “luminiferous ether.” Science historian David Kaiser tells the story of how that idea rose and fell in this interview with Undiscovered’s Annie Minoff and Ira Flatow. Annie Minoff is a producer ...

David Werdegar asks whether the Higgs field is like the luminiferous ether (Letters, 30 July). The answer is no. According to quantum field theory, fields, like the Higgs field and the ...

This description is suspiciously similar to the earlier idea of an “ether” as the carrier of electromagnetic waves, which Albert Michelson and Edward Morley disproved in their classic 1887 ...