"Ether theories after the middle of the nineteenth century tended to posit that matter was not, in fact, material at all. ...matter was no longer understood as Lucretius had formulated it: as made up of strong and rigid atoms moving through empty space. Instead, physicists now believed that space was filled with the luminiferous ether, and matter, physicists hypothesized, was simply movement within the ether. Matter was thus etherealized."
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Sarah C. Alexander, Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable (2015)
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