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I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with a certain degree of substantiality, however different it may be from all ordinary matter.

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Let there be in every material particle several material points charged with electricity, of which, however, only one be movable, and have the charge e and the mass μ.

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I ndeed, one of the most important of our fundamental assumptions must be that the ether not only occupies all space between molecules, atoms, or electrons, but that it pervades all these particles. We shall add the hypothesis that, though the particles may move, the ether always remains at rest.

Hendrik Lorentz

Hendrik Lorentz

Hendrik Lorentz

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Born: July 18, 1853

Died: February 4, 1928 (aged 74)

Bio: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

Known for:

The Einstein Theory of Relativity (1919)
Collected Papers
Problems of modern physics (1927)

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