enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Aether theories - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories

    In the 19th century, luminiferous aether (or ether), meaning light-bearing aether, was a theorized medium for the propagation of light. James Clerk Maxwell developed a model to explain electric and magnetic phenomena using the aether, a model that led to what are now called Maxwell's equations and the understanding that light is an ...

  3. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_elements...

    Aether (previously spelled Æther) is the main type of energy filling the blind eternities in the Magic: The Gathering multiverse, though it can also appear in variable quantities within the planes. Inextricably associated with magic in Magic's shared fictional universe and the use of the word in several Magic cards implies that casting magic ...

  4. Lists of Greek mythological figures - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Greek...

    This page was last edited on 13 February 2025, at 04:11 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. Aether (classical element) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(classical_element)

    According to ancient and medieval science, aether (/ ˈ iː θ ər /, alternative spellings include æther, aither, and ether), also known as the fifth element or quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere. [1]

  6. Orgone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone

    Orgone (/ ˈ ɔːr ɡ oʊ n / OR-gohn) [1] is a pseudoscientific [2] concept variously described as an esoteric energy or hypothetical universal life force.Originally proposed in the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich, [3] [4] [5] and developed by Reich's student Charles Kelley after Reich's death in 1957, orgone was conceived as the anti-entropic principle of the universe, a creative substratum in all of ...

  7. Glossary of physics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_physics

    The electrical intensity or "pressure" developed by a source of electrical energy such as a battery or generator and measured in volts. Any device that converts other forms of energy into electrical energy provides electromotive force as its output. electron A subatomic particle with a negative elementary electric charge. electron capture ...

  8. List of energy abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_energy_abbreviations

    GFSE—Global Forum on Sustainable Energy (organization) GIC—Gross Inland (energy) Consumption (EU) (energy) GHG—Greenhouse gas (climate) GIA—Generator Interconnection Agreement (electricity) GIC—Gas Inventory Charge (natural gas) GISB—Gas Industry Standards Board (now NAESB) (US) (natural gas) GLDF—Generator to Load Distribution ...

  9. Lorentz ether theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory

    And referring to the Fizeau experiment, he even wrote: "The aether is all but in our grasp." He also said the aether is necessary to harmonize Lorentz's theory with Newton's third law. Even in 1912 in a paper called "The Quantum Theory", Poincaré ten times used the word "aether", and described light as "luminous vibrations of the aether". [A 19]