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 ...
Faraday to Einstein: Constructing Meaning in Scientific Theories Nancy J. Nersessian Part of the book series:Science and Philosophy((SCPH,volume 1)) 172Accesses Abstract In moving straight from Maxwell to Lorentz and then on to Einstein, we are obviously passing over a long list of aether theori...
In the context of the present invention, a binder composition is understood as meaning a mixture which contains at least one block copolymer which can be prepared by free radical polymerization and comprises at least two blocks of different monomer compositions, and additionally at least 2% by weig...