42:5.16 Primordial-[[force]] [[behavior]] does give rise to [[phenomena]] which are in many ways [[analogous]] to your postulated [[ether]]. [[Space]] is not empty; the [[spheres]] of all [[space]] whirl and plunge on through a vast [[ocean]] of outspread [[force]]-[[energy]]; neither is the [[space]] [[content]] of an [[atom]] empty. Nevertheless there is no [[ether]], and the very [[absence]] of this [[hypothetical]] ether enables the [[inhabited planet]] to escape falling into the [[sun]] and the encircling [[electron]] to resist falling into the [[nucleus]]. | 42:5.16 Primordial-[[force]] [[behavior]] does give rise to [[phenomena]] which are in many ways [[analogous]] to your postulated [[ether]]. [[Space]] is not empty; the [[spheres]] of all [[space]] whirl and plunge on through a vast [[ocean]] of outspread [[force]]-[[energy]]; neither is the [[space]] [[content]] of an [[atom]] empty. Nevertheless there is no [[ether]], and the very [[absence]] of this [[hypothetical]] ether enables the [[inhabited planet]] to escape falling into the [[sun]] and the encircling [[electron]] to resist falling into the [[nucleus]]. |