I guess it would probably be similar to stuff like Dark Matter or whatever, right? Here’s a kludge; the professor doesn’t like it either but somebody is working

I guess it would probably be similar to stuff like Dark Matter or whatever, right? Here’s a kludge; the professor doesn’t like it either but somebody is working on it… I often wonder about the “luminiferous aether”— it sounds a bit silly. If there were message boards form physicists back then, would there be a bunch of writing: “well, we think this is a bit dumb, we’re just using it to make the math work out” for us to read? I’m sure somebody’s checked their personal letters…