| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In essence, the first argument went like this: light is a wave, waves require a medium, the medium for light was called the luminiferous ether, it must be extremely rigid (since light travels so quickly), it must be extremely tenuous (since we can???t detect its drag), rigid and tenuous are adjectives that are incompatible (strong yet soft), Nineteenth Century physics cannot handle this, therefore
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