Concepts Quote by Robert B. Laughlin

The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein…

— Charles Lane Poor

“Time has come to reconsider the existence of aether in space due to recent developments in science on existence of dark energy in space.”

— Devinder Kumar Dhiman

They say much about the Einstein's theory now. According to Einstein the ether does not exist and many people agree with him. But it…

— Nikola Tesla

The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe.…

— Leon M. Lederman

“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the movement of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.

— Alan Guth

“The Lorentz transformations, with their absolute condition c (the speed of light, with light being massless, maximally length-contracted and time-dilated) show that the “physical”…

— Dr. Thomas Stark

Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could…

— Adam Riess

I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with…

— Hendrik Lorentz

“One thing about space: it might be a big radiation-filled vacuum that’d kill you in a heartbeat if you weren’t paying attention, but at…

— James S.A. Corey

“Light — i.e. space — is the structure of time, the essence of existence. The stuff of physics does not involve time. Orthodox contemporary…

— Eric Bredesen

It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his…

— Robert B. Laughlin