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It’s always kind of wonderful to read older texts. For one, the style is often much more approachably clear; for another, sometimes you find hidden gems of history. One of my favorite bits of science history is the first edition of a text on metallurgy, that was meant for sales reps for a carnegie steel affiliate company. The purpose of the book was to give sales reps enough clue to not embarrass themselves; it’s evo…
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I think you mean luminiferous aether , unless there’s a pun in there I’m not getting.
Ether is a perfectly valid spelling in British English. See meaning 3 at https://www.lexico.com/definition/ether .
We take the name ethernet for granted now, but it really is quite a clever name.
nowadays it is practically just a point-to-point network, but the original implementation was a bunch of clients connected to their private "aether" all shouting out to each other.
“Why does it get hot? Because when the electrons stream through it they bump and jostle their way along like rude boys on a crowded sidewalk. The atoms have to step a bit more lively to keep out of the way.”