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13 November, 15:25

Explain why astronomers long ago believed that space must be filled with some kind of substance (the "aether") instead of the vacuum we know it is today.

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  1. 13 November, 15:37
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    Explanation:

    The scientist of that time could not believe that the electromagnetic waves do not require a medium to travel through so they made a space filling substance necessary to travel of electromagnetic waves called aether.

    But after the special 0 theory of relativity this idea is discarded and fell out.
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