#luminiferous aether

[smokingbomber]

nephrite and mercury in a voyage through the luminiferous aether

[noosphe-re]

Luminiferous aether or ether ("luminiferous", meaning "light-bearing") was the postulated medium for the propagation of light. It was invoked to explain the ability of the apparently wave-based light to propagate through empty space (a vacuum), something that waves should not be able to do. The assumption of a spatial plenum (space completely filled with matter) of luminiferous aether, rather than a spatial vacuum, provided the theoretical medium that was required by wave theories of light.

Wikipedia

[rastronomicals]

7:44 AM EDT May 16, 2024:

Mare Cognitum - "Heliacal Rising" From the album Luminiferous Aether (September 16, 2016)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: (Extra-)Atmospheric Black Metal

[nanbeidou]

- Aether and Lumine & Luminiferous Aether -

(before we begin, I wanna point out that this works for their names in CN and JP as well since they have very similar meanings like light and void)

So, in ancient Greece, AETHER was the air breathed by the Gods and was embodied as an ancient deity of light. A fifth indestructible element, along with the four physical elements of the world fire, air, earth and water.

This element, aether, in its crystalline state can form celestial bodies, which can mean planets, stars, nebulas, etc.. And alchemists used to believe that this spiritually pure element had miraculous capabilities! (Albedo's object of research, right?)

(( side note, as I was trying to get those screenshots, I discovered that when the twins try to attack the unknown God, they don't use their swords anymore, they use a power that looks like light.. kind of opposite to Dainsleif's ))

for a time, a physicist named Huygens, theorized that light was a wave and -since all waves are basically energy patterns that move through a medium- Aether was basically the medium through which light travelled. (keep in mind lumine means to light up or illuminate)

He called this Luminiferous Aether, or light-bearing Aether. some time later Newton said 'that's bllshit, light is not a wave it's particles', and later another guy came and made an experiment and said 'no no, it IS actually waves' and so on and so on until a lot of physicists n failed experiments later Einstein dropped his latest hit - the Theory of Relativity. Basically, the conclusion was that Luminiferous Aether didn't exist, but Einstein came up wth the "new Aether" which was what we now know as the fabric of spacetime.

So yeah, I'm straying from the main point, which is that I don't actually have a point, but I found it very interesting that the choice of the twins' names (with similar equivalents in other languages) was after what was believed to basically be the fabric of space and time...

So could this mean that the twins cannot travel or fully function if not together? a sort of one entity that cannot use all their power when separated?

another very interesting bit that was discovered in the Enkanomiya books, is that the people there used these words to archive and categorize: Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, ETHER, and VOID. these could also be a hint as to the actual nature of the twins, what do you all think?

[just-flowerchild]

Behold the light weaving between worlds. Binding together the imiscible fragments of creation.

[startswithabang]

Ask Ethan: Does The Aether Exist?

“Back in the late 1800s, an "aether" was proposed as the medium that light travels through. We now don't believe that is the case. What is the evidence and/or proof that no aether exists?”

In the earliest days of science, it was assumed that everything needed a medium to travel through. The planets and celestial objects, which appeared to live in space, should need one too, and so one was conjectured: the aether. Starlight and gravitation must propagate through space, too, and so the aether must be the medium that they traveled through. But as the years and centuries unfolded, cleverer and more precise ways to test and measure the properties of that aether were devised, and none of them ever yielded a positive result. Today, in the aftermath of all of those experiments, measurements, and observations, we have no evidence for the aether’s existence.

But that doesn’t mean, necessarily, that the aether doesn’t exist. Absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence. Come learn what we know about the aether today!

[bizarrobrain]

"The First Point of Ares" by Mare Cognitum - From "Luminiferous Aether" (2016)

[child-of-leviathan]

Luminiferous Aether - Mare Cognitum (USA)

Album cover by Moonroot Art

https://marecognitum.bandcamp.com/album/luminiferous-aether

This band deserves so much more recognition.