"Welche Schwierigkeiten wir auch haben, um eine konsistente Vorstellung der Beschaffenheit des Äthers zu entwickeln: Es kann keinen Zweifel geben, dass der interplanetarische und interstellare Raum nicht leer ist, sondern dass beide von einer materiellen Substanz erfüllt sind, die gewiss die umfangreichste und vermutlich einheitlichste Materie ist, von der wir wissen."
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Zitiert in Leonard Mlodinow: "Das Fenster zum Universum. Eine kleine Geschichte der Geometrie", Campus Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-593-36931-1, Seite 176.
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James Clerk Maxwell
1831 – 1879
schottischer Physiker
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