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Re:New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery by RedComet on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:23PM (#27310332)
Ether very much exists. Its just now referred to as emptiness or "the vacuum of space".
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Re:New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery by 1_player on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:13AM (#27312266)
It doesn't. Aether was supposed to be an element, substance that filled the emptiness of space, not the emptiness itself.
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Re:New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery by RedComet on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:42PM (#27319019)
You seem to be mistakenly conflating the modern conception of chemical elements with classical philosophical notions of elements.
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Re:New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery by Ono-Sendai on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:32PM (#27310403)
Also known as fields (as in fields from quantum field theory)
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