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Getting rid of the Ether. Could Physics have achieved it sooner, with better assistance from Philosophy?
Theoria 22 (3):353-374 (2009)
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The history of the luminiferous ether is sketched with a view to ascertaining what factors may have kept this idea alive until 1905, when Einstein declared it superfluous.Links
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