Author:
Price, Lew Paxton
Sub-Category:
Mechanics / Electrodynamics
Date Published:
April 13, 2014
Abstract:
From ancient times, we have the theory that space is not empty. During the early 20th century, those who chose to believe in photons which are particulate in nature began a campaign to discredit those who believed light to be a wave moving through a medium. During the late 20th century, the debate led to a belief that light sometimes acted as wave and other times as a particle. Today, there is a growing number of scientists who believe space is filled with something that allows light to move through it as a wave - and particle physicists are hard pressed to show how particles, especially photons, can act as waves. Those who say that space is filled with dark energy are merely putting a new name upon what was once called ether.
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