Andy Latto writes:
There is a sense in which phlogiston exists, because the theory that things are flammable because they contain phlogiston, which is released by burning, exists.
Fred Lunnon writes:
The aether exists because Newtonian mechanics exists, ditto.
We hear a lot about the aether, but how come we never hear about what surely should be called the "naether"? This is the medium that darkness travels through. When a dark-sucker (sometimes called a light-source) sucks dark from a room, the dark has to travel through the naether to get there. See e.g. https://www.msu.edu/user/dynicrai/physics/dark.htm or http://members.dslextreme.com/users/rogermw/darksucker.html (If any of you know of more definitive web-sources for dark- sucker theory, or the original attribution, please send me this information --- or should I say, please extract this ignorance from me!) Jim