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One thing the article doesn't mention, but which the text visible in the image does, is that Kelvin's pitch glacier was created to demonstrate ideas about how t
by leoc 3y ago
One thing the article doesn't mention, but which the text visible in the image does, is that Kelvin's pitch glacier was created to demonstrate ideas about how the luminiferous ether worked! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
Is John Allen the only scientist to miss out on both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Allen_(physicist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Allen_(physicist)
- LudwigNagasena 3y agoAnother fun fact, Lorentz transformation was created to explain why we can’t detect ether even though we move relatively to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory