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[citation needed] The symbol for aether in the works of Torbern Bergman (ca. 1775) Quintessence (𝓠) is the Latinate name of the fifth element used by medieval alchemists for a medium similar or identical to that thought to make up the heavenly bodies. It was noted that there was very little presence of quintessence within the terrestrial sphere.
Aether also played a role in Roman genealogies of the gods. Cicero says that Aether and Dies (Day) were the parents of Caelus (Sky), [10] and reports that according to the "so called theologians" Aether was the father of one of the "three Jupiters". [11]
Aether, a fictional planet in 2004 video game Metroid Prime 2: Echoes; Aether, an element in 2012 video game Phantasy Star Online 2; Ether, the building block of life in the Xenoblade Chronicles universe; Aether, a dimension added in a mod for the video game Minecraft; Aether, an ancient variety of entities present in Brandon Sanderson’s ...
Later scholars identified this element with aether. Similarly, modern quintessence would be the fifth known "dynamical, time-dependent, and spatially inhomogeneous" contribution to the overall mass–energy content of the universe.
The classical element Aether of Platonic and Aristotlean physics continued in Victorian scientific proposals of a Luminiferous ether as well as the cognate chemical substance ether. According to Theosophists and Alice Bailey the etheric body inhabits an etheric plane which corresponds to the four higher subplanes of the physical plane .
Aether represents mbûngi, the circular void that begot the universe. Air (South) represents musoni , the period of conception that takes place during spring. Fire (East) represent kala , the period of birth that takes place during summer.
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 ...
In the 17th century, Robert Boyle was a proponent of an aether hypothesis. According to Boyle, the aether consists of subtle particles, one sort of which explains the absence of vacuum and the mechanical interactions between bodies, and the other sort of which explains phenomena such as magnetism (and possibly gravity) that are, otherwise, inexplicable on the basis of purely mechanical ...