From his office window, Glenn Starkman can see the site where Albert Michelson and Edward Morley carried out their famous 1887 experiment that ruled out the presence of an all-pervading "aether" in ...

The term “ether” is unique in the history of physics not only because of the so many different meanings in which it has been used but also because it is the only term that has been eliminated and ...

The old scientific concept of the ether —an all-pervading medium which transmits light and gravitational force—is a nine-lived cat. Supposedly killed off several times, it still keeps pattering around ...

The Higgs boson has been found! The Higgs boson has not been found! What the heck is the Higgs boson, has it really been found, and why should we care? The Higgs boson is a key particle in the ...

The Higgs boson has been found! The Higgs boson has not been found! What the heck is the Higgs boson? Has it really been found? And why should we care? The Higgs boson is a key particle in the ...