![]() ![]() The ether completely permeated matter, with the consequence that bodies moving through it were not impeded and did not drag the ether with them. Lorentz’ theory was founded on the concept of an absolutely stationary light ether. Early in 1903 he began an intensive study of the theory, especially H. The electron theory had not been taught at the Zurich Polytechnic, and Einstein had had to instruct himself in it. In 1901 he was absorbed in unpublished, independent investigations of the critical problem of the motion of matter through the light ether.Īt the turn of the century, the focus of discussion of the light ether was the electron theory. In 1901 he was motion in a quasi-rigid elastic ether. ![]() As a student, one of the extramechanical applications of mechanics that had most fascinated him was the theory of light as a wave motion in a quasi-rigid elastic ether. ![]() He had already long thought about the fundamental problems of radiation at age sixteen he had puzzled deeply over the question of what light would look like to an observer moving with it. Einstein first wrote on radiation in his statistical mechanical discussion of Wien’s law in 1904. ![]()
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