History and Philosophy of Physics

    

A New Perspective on the Fabric of Space-Time

Authors: A. M. Khadjibaev

Space and time hold the main and leading positions among these fundamental categories, since all forms of matter, existing as physical reality (PR), lie and exist in space and in time. Before the end of the nineteenth century, for more than three millennia, science had dominated by the view of a kind of continuous medium referred to as "ether", which fills all space and penetrates all objects, but remains intangible for a human being.However, by the early twentieth century, the situation in science had dramatically changed. Following the famous Michelson and Morley's experiments, and according to A. Einstein's "special theory of relativity" (STR), the concept of "ether" was completely expunged from science because it was "unprovable" and later "unnecessary".

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