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Aether (or ether) relates to the material which supposedly fills the entire universe. It is a concept used to understand action at a distance. Aether was described by Huygens as an "omnipresent, perfectly elastic medium having zero density", to support his wave theory of light.
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How does the existence of aether allow for the Galilean transformation?
I was reading this and it said that the aether was proposed as a fix to accommodate the Galilean transform because the Laws of Electromagnetism did not remain constant under the Galilean transform. … How would the existence of aether have resolved this discrepancy? If aether exists, why would Laws of Electromagnetism suddenly become invariant under the Galilean transform? …
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