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What would you expect from a seahorse though, am I right?

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just realized how odd that name is.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The idea was first documented in a memo that Metcalfe wrote on May 22, 1973, where he named it after the luminiferous aether once postulated to exist as an "omnipresent, completely passive medium for the propagation of electromagnetic waves."

Hmm, I really thought there would be some clever name I didn't understand, but it really is that aether.