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The waves of light are not anything mechanical or material, but are something electrical and magnetic—they are, in fact, electrical disturbances periodic in space and time, and travelling with a known and tremendous speed through the ether of space. Their very existence depends upon the ether, and their speed of propagation is its best known and most certain quantitative property.

— Oliver Lodge The Ether of Space (1909)

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It is rather remarkable that the majority of learned men have closed their minds to what seemed bare and simple facts to many people.

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