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The Unexpected Hero of Light

Initial Conditions: A Physics History Podcast

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The Luminiferous Ether

The name for this medium is the luminiferous ether. It's a substance that we couldn't see, but somehow it permeated everywhere light needed to be. Thomas Young performed the famous double slit experiment in 1801 that demonstrated the wave-like behavior of light.

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