| Left: the twin A and his witness A' whose distance is 10 light-seconds are both stationary with respect to the aether. |
| The taller inspector pulled a folder out of the same abditory aether that had secreted the tea, and handed it over to Lestrade. |
| Similarly, it was believed, light waves needed the aether through which to travel. |
| But, alas, quantum consciousness has about as much substance as the aether from which it is composed. |
| Nineteenth-century physicists postulated the existence of an elastic solid, the aether, to account for the propagation of light. |
| To explain some of his observations Newton had to argue that the corpuscles of light created waves in the aether. |
