They called it the luminiferous aether, and once again space was A THING.

他们称为发光的，空间再次成为现实。

Was there something else in the aether that forced Liz Truss his hand?

是否还有其他东西迫使莉兹·特拉斯伸出手？

[INTRO] Ancient Greeks gave us the word " aether, " which has been used for centuries to describe space as a thing.

这个词，几个世纪来， 这个词一直被用来描述空间。

Einstein said " forget the aether." He said that light, different from any other kind of wave, could travel through empty space.

爱因斯坦说“忘记”。 他说光不同于任何其他类型的波，可在真空传播。

That which has the wave-motion is either aether or 'gross matter', but in either case is what the philosopher would call matter.

具有波动的东西要么是， 要么是“总物质” ，但无论哪种情况都是哲学家所说的物质。

In full disclosure, the scientific community has bet on the wrong horse before: alchemy, the geocentric model, spontaneous generation, and the interstellar aether are just a few of many theories discarded in favor of better ones.

总而言之，科学家们不是没有做出过错误的判断：，地心说，无生源说，还有星际这些只是被正确理论抛弃的 众多理论的一小部分。

Conceived by Descartes, embraced by Newton, and venerated by nearly everyone ever since, the aether held a position of absolute centrality in nineteenth-century physics as a way of explaining how light travelled across the emptiness of space.

由笛卡尔构思， 被牛顿接受，从那时起几乎受到所有人的崇敬，在 19 世纪的物理学占据绝对心地位， 解释光如何穿过虚空的空。

The idea that we're all swimming through an omnipresent invisible something, a master framework of space and time, may sound a bit like Einstein invented a new " aether, " but that's just like, your perspective man.

我们都游过一个无处不在的无形事物，一个空间和时间的主框架，这听起来有点像爱因斯坦发明了一种新的“”，但这就像，你的观点。

Two years later, by now a professor at the Case School in Cleveland, Michelson became interested in trying to measure something called the aether drift, a kind of head-wind produced by moving objects as they ploughed through space.

两年后， 迈克尔逊现在是克利夫兰凯斯学院（Case School）的教授，他对尝试测量一种叫做漂移的东西产生了兴趣，这是一种由移动物体在空犁地时产生的逆风。