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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]
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 ...
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 ...
The word derives from the Medieval Latin empyreus, an adaptation of the Ancient Greek empyros (ἔμπυρος), meaning "in or on the fire (pyr)". [ 1 ] In Christian religious cosmologies, the Empyrean was "the source of light" and where God and saved souls resided, [ 1 ] and in medieval Christianity, the Empyrean was the third heaven and ...
The word in Sanskrit is derived from a root kāś meaning "to be". It appears as a masculine noun in Vedic Sanskrit with a generic meaning of "aether". In Classical Sanskrit, the noun acquires the neuter gender and may express the concept of "aether" (Manusmriti, Shatapatha Brahmana).
Alchemical authors used similes to describe the universal nature of the prima materia. Arthur Edward Waite states that all alchemical writers concealed its "true name". Since the prima materia has all the qualities and properties of elementary things, the names of all kinds of things were assigned to it. [5]
The first example of this scenario was proposed by Ratra and Peebles (1988) [1] and Wetterich (1988). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The concept was expanded to more general types of time-varying dark energy, and the term "quintessence" was first introduced in a 1998 paper by Robert R. Caldwell , Rahul Dave and Paul Steinhardt . [ 4 ]