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From: ertas@athena.mit.edu (Mehmet D Ertas)
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Subject: Re: Forgotten Entities: Do You Remember Any?
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Date: 29 Oct 90 04:13:50 GMT
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In article <1990Oct25.232546.12357@portia.Stanford.EDU> zimm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles) writes:
>I'm interested in looking at the "forgotten entities" of science--entities
>which were once considered somehow "real" by some or most scientists but
>which were later recognized not to exist.

 How about 'Ether'? (I'm not sure whether I spelled it correctly, but I mean
the medium that, in the 19th century, was believed to exist everywhere in
the universe, the medium that caused the transmission of "light waves" in space.

Deniz Ertas