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  • It kind of is. It’s an extra variable introduced to account for a bunch of things that aren’t adding up.

    Aether was the same thing, until people discovered electromagnetic fields. People knew light was a wave. Waves travel faster through more solid mediums. Light is pretty damn fast. Space is pretty empty.

    Things didn’t add up. Light is simultaneously traveling through possibly the stiffest material in the known universe while also through nothing at all. People had to come up with Aether to try to explain that.

    It was wrong, but it was an obvious placeholder acknowledging that something huge is missing from our current theories.
















  • weew@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlDo you believe in Aliens?
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    Extraterrestrial life = yes. It’s a big universe and the chances of us being the only life in the entire universe is slim.

    Aliens visiting us = no. For the same reason as above. It’s a big ass universe.

    Governments being able to hide aliens from us = lol no. If aliens had the tech to travel a million light years to visit us, they’d have taken over the planet in an hour.