Word: infeld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unnecessary. In the relativistic view there is no such thing as absolute motion, therefore no need of a fixed frame of reference, such as the ether. It became fashionable for scientific popularizers to make fun of the ether as a ridiculous, shivering jelly. When Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld wrote their book for laymen on the evolution of physics (TIME, April 4, 1938), they whimsically treated the ether as an unprintable vulgarism...