FromLiterature They call this a quintessence field, after the fifth element, or aether—the name that ancient Greek philosophers gave to an invisible material thought to fill all the empty space in the Universe. FromScientific American In its place, Lunenfeld overworks a flimsy metaphor, tenuous...
: "Aer (Air) [here meaning Aither (Aether)], the son of Erebos (Erebus), in which the clouds (nephelai) float."Orphica, Theogonies Fragment 54 (from Damascius) (trans. West) (Greek hymns C3rd - C2nd B.C.) : "The great Khronos (Chronos, Unaging Time) that we found in it ...