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===== 🧠 Great Minds Who Spoke of the Ether: =====

These weren’t fools—these were the minds who cracked open the skull of nature and peered into its brain.

====== ⚡ Nikola Tesla ======

: “All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space—the Akasha or luminiferous ether—which is acted upon by the life-giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles, all things and phenomena.”
* Tesla rejected Einstein’s relativity, believing instead in an all-pervading medium.
* He claimed his wireless energy transmission and scalar technologies were dependent on etheric resonance.

====== 🧲 James Clerk Maxwell ======
* While remembered for Maxwell’s equations, few are taught that his original electromagnetic equations were deeply rooted in ether theory.
* His concept of displacement current only made sense in a medium—without ether, it loses its intuitive physical interpretation.

: “The vast interplanetary and interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe... they will be recognized as the laboratories of the universe.”

====== ⚛️ Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) ======
* Advocated that ether had elastic properties and could support wave propagation.
* Worked on vortex atom theory, which required ether as a fluidic substrate.

: “The aether is as real as the air we breathe.”

====== 🧠 Albert Michelson (of Michelson–Morley fame) ======
* His experiment is wrongly taught as disproving the ether.
* Michelson himself never believed it disproved the ether’s existence, only the idea of Earth’s motion relative to it.

: “...this result cannot be interpreted as excluding the existence of an ether.”

====== ☀️ Sir Oliver Lodge ======
* A forgotten pioneer who explored the ether’s relationship with consciousness and spiritualism.

: “Ether is not matter, nor force, nor mind, but a medium for all three.”