ether: References & Edit History
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| Deleted Web site: None. | Sep 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: None. | Aug 18, 2023 | ||
| Added sentence about ether theories of gravity. |
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Jan 12, 2016 | |
| Changed date of Michelson-Morley experiment from 1881 to 1887. |
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Nov 03, 2015 | |
| Article revised. | Dec 31, 1998 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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