“All potential energy exists in the ether. It may vibrate, and it may rotate, but as regards locomotion it is stationary—the most stationary body we know: absolutely stationary, so to speak; our standard of rest.”

—  Oliver Lodge

The Ether of Space https://books.google.com/books?id=ycgEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA118, p. 118
The Ether of Space (1909)

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