Eine geniale Beschreibung des Äthers ist
hier (Frank Very 1919) zu finden (die Grundideen stammen von
Emanuel Swedenborg). Es ist natürlich nicht alles 100%-ig richtig, aber für damalige Zeit sehr gut.
Wer weiß was es noch alles gibt.
Zitat:
THERE has arisen at the present time a new doctrine which declares that there is no ether, or universal atmosphere consecrated to the propagation of luminous waves, but that light consists of discrete "quanta" of luminous energy, thrown off from vibrating electrons and originating in their disturbed motion. This proposition appears to be well founded; but it does not therefore do away with the necessity for a universal medium, though this medium should no longer be called "the luminiferous ether." I have adopted for the universal interstellar atmosphere the name of "aura," a term which I have borrowed from Swedenborg, who uses it sometimes to designate a universal atmosphere, a "purer ether," assigning to it in the end a gravitational function, and placing it as an antecedent to the light-bearing ether.
While the universal aura, or "ether of space," as Sir Oliver Lodge calls it, has no mass, the case is different with the electrically organized "ether," of which Sir J. J. Thomson in his "Electricity and Matter" has said: "All mass is mass of the ether, all momentum, momentum of the ether, and all kinetic energy, kinetic energy of the ether." Here, however, he points out that "the concentration of the lines of force on the small negative bodies the 'corpuscles' [or electrons] is so great that practically the whole of the bound ether is localized around these bodies"
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He also assigned both a vibratory and a corpuscular nature to his luminous "ethereal particle," thus combining the Newtonian and Huyghenian hypotheses a view to which we are in a fair way to return.* After several speculations of this sort, he restrains himself with the words: "Much more might be said, but which I omit, as I have no experiments to prove my statements."
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Let us assume that there is around an electron a condensation of the aura in which its electric properties reside; that the electron both rotates on an axis and also pulsates with a radial, regular, and uniform motion at all points of
its surface, being urged to this motion by an internal resilience; and that its shape is that of an approximate sphere with a central core, for which a reason will be given later. The electron is incapable of further compression, but is surrounded by its own ethereal "atmosphere" in which the pressure diminishes outwardly at a very rapid rate. During steady motion, this atmosphere moves with the electron and virtually forms a part of it; but the adhesion is so slight that under sudden shock the envelope is stript off and becomes a spherical ethereal particle which pulsates and oscillates within limits, but does not rotate. The naked electron immediately takes to itself a new atmosphere formed out of the illimitable aura, and may almost immediately lose its garment again at the next shock.
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The ether-particle thus formed is a sphere of the same size as the electron. Its pulsation gives it mass which, together with its onward motion, causes it to have momentum. Its oscillation gives it alternating positive and negative electric sign and a reciprocating magnetic field, the whole constituting a least quantum of electro-magnetic energy. Because the electrons everywhere repel each other, and because radiation is an affair of surfaces, the emission of radiant ether by any portion of matter, from its origin, takes the form of a spherical wave.
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