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This question was at the center of an experiment performed by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1851. He studied the propagation of light in flowing water in order to determine the variation of the speed of light in dependence on the speed of the moving medium. His experiment yielded a relation between the speed of light in water and the speed of the flowing water, which indicated a slight drag of the aether by the water, thus roughly confirming Fresnel’s aether-drag hypothesis. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the assumption of an immobile aether became generally accepted as the most plausible assumption about its state of motion, in particular after optics was included in Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory, a development to which we shall return.
But a theory based on the assumption of an immobile aether faced much more serious problems. An immobile aether had to be conceived as providing itself a universal frame of reference for the motion of all other bodies, an embodiment of Newton’s absolute space as it were. In short, it turned out that electromagnetism, as was the case for mechanics, also had unavoidable “cosmological” consequences. As the aether is a medium with concrete physical properties, the motion of a body with respect to this aether frame should somehow have noticeable effects.
15 The fact that Newtonian physics is removed from intuitive physics not only makes it difficult to understand for laymen but also represented, in the course of its history, a potential challenge even for professional science. Newton’s concept of gravitational force as “action at a distance,” for instance, was criticized by his contemporaries as well as by later scientists because it does not provide a mechanism of interaction compatible with what was to be expected from intuitive physics, that is, an interaction mediated by the contact of a material agent.