In classical thought, the four elements Earth, Water, Air, and Fire frequently occur ; sometimes including a fifth element or quintessence ( after " quint " meaning " fifth ") called Aether in ancient Greece and India.

He wrote, " I do not know what this Aether is ", but that if it consists of particles then they must be " exceedingly smaller than those of Air, or even than those of Light: The exceeding smallness of its Particles may contribute to the greatness of the force by which those Particles may recede from one another, and thereby make that Medium exceedingly more rare and elastic than Air, and by consequence exceedingly less able to resist the motions of Projectiles, and exceedingly more able to press upon gross Bodies, by endeavoring to expand itself.

This too was shown to be incorrect by the Michelson – Gale – Pearson experiment, which detected the Sagnac effect due to Earth's rotation ( s. Aether drag hypothesis )

Aether theory was dealt another blow when the Galilean transformation and Newtonian dynamics were both modified by Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, giving the mathematics of Lorentzian electrodynamics a new, " non-aether " context.

And within the electromagnetic theory of Maxwell and Lorentz one can speak of the " Aether of Electrodynamics ", in which the aether possesses an absolute state of motion.

* 1976 – Music With Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television.

** The celestial region was made up of the fifth element, Aether, which was unchanging and moved naturally with uniform circular motion.

By contrast, in the Orphic cosmogony the unaging Chronos produced Aether and Chaos and made a silvery egg in divine Aether.

Hyginus emphasises the primordial nature of Atlas by making him the son of Aether and Gaia.

In an attempt at a chemical conception of the Aether, he put forward a hypothesis that there existed two inert chemical elements of lesser atomic weight than hydrogen.

In the Orphic cosmogony the unageing Chronos produced Aether and Chaos, and made a silvery egg in the divine Aether.

Erebus features little in Greek mythological tradition and literature, but is said to have fathered several other deities by Nyx ; depending on the source of the mythology, this union includes Aether, Hemera, the Hesperides, Hypnos, the Moirai, Geras, Styx, and Thanatos.

She was the female counterpart of her brother and consort, Aether ( Light ), but neither of them figured actively in myth or cult.

The video game Metroid Prime 2: Echoes involves a world, " Aether ", having an alternate self in the, " Dark " realm, universe, or dimension.

The protagonist, Samus, finds out that she just dropped in to a hopeless war for the Luminoth, the dominant species of Light Aether against the Ing, the dominant species of Dark Aether.

The basic concept of an Elemental refers to the ancient idea of the elements Earth, Water, Wind, Fire, and Aether as the fundamental building blocks of nature.

* Aether, Aristotelian element.

19th century physicists used the Aether as a hidden state to describe how light moved through a vacuum.

Maxwell's electromagnetic equations and Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity made the Aether model redundant from the viewpoint of 20th century physicists.

According to the accepted Aristotelian physics of the time, the heavens ( whose motions and cycles were continuous and unending ) were made of " Aether " or " Quintessence "; this substance, not found on Earth, was light, strong, and unchanging, and its natural state was circular motion.

* 1976-Music With Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television.

* Walther Feyzioglu ( Shear )-Could generate Razor Force energy waves from hands that could slice through objects on the molecular level with a range of one meter ; fell to his death in a fight with Scanner after Shear murdered their Strikeforce commander during a psychotic rage.

They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.

She got to her feet, staggered, and almost fell.

They neither gained nor fell back.

The three of them floundered through the door into the interior and fell in a heap.

the square head fell over.

It must have got there when you fell against me ''.

He side-stepped her blow and she fell, stumbling against the gelding.

In spite of her attempt to preserve her balance, she fell, bruising her arm on a naked stone.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg rumbled down the rough metal taxi strip, and one by one the seven members of his flight fell in behind him.

When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

Now, in that same cabin, Robinson fell to his knees beside a bunk.

Every slight sound that rose against that pressure fell away again, crushed beneath it.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

The blue-eyed Watson decided that he would dislike living in New York, and the deal fell through.

But in the confused atmosphere of frontier politics, alliances were as quickly broken as they were formed, and as Pike came to favor with the governor of the Territory, the governor fell out of favor with the President of the United States.

Loyal and unscrupulous, with a single-minded ambition to which he devoted all his energies, he outmatched the English diplomats time and time again until, by a kind of poetic justice, he fell at the battle of Courtrai, the victim of the equally nationalistic if less articulate Flemings.

A report of Sr. Edw Grevyles minaces to the Baileefe Aldermen & Burgesses of Stratforde '' tells how Quiney was injured by Greville's men: `` in the tyme Mr. Ryc' Quyney was bayleefe ther came some of them whoe beinge druncke fell to braweling in ther hosts howse wher thei druncke & drewe ther dagers uppon the hoste: att a faier tyme the Baileefe being late abroade to see the towne in order & comminge by in hurley burley came into the howse & commawnded the peace to be kept butt colde nott prevayle & in hys endevor to sticle the brawle had his heade grevouselye brooken by one of hys ( Greville's ) men whom nether hymselfe ( Greville ) punnished nor wolde suffer to be punnished but with a shewe to turne them awaye & enterteyned agayne ''.

Finally, at dawn, he fell asleep, and when he awoke and came into the living room, he found Lewis in his pajamas before the fire, smoking a cigarette.

Now the park is filled with marble busts and all the streets in the immediate area have the full and proper names of the men who fell.

Recently Treasury Secretary Dillon and Labor Secretary Goldberg fell into line with Mr. Hodges' appraisal, though there has been some reluctance to do so at the White House.

The figure leapt from the box, almost lost its balance, the flag draped there tore in the air, the figure landed on its left leg, fell on its hands, and pressed itself up.

It was nothing to him if rain fell and nobody came.