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Aether has several meanings.1 Physics and philosophy
In physics and philosophy, aether (also spelled ether) was once believed to be a substance which filled all of space. Aristotle included it as a fifth element on the principle that nature abhorred a vacuum. Aether was also called " Quintessence." James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and Nikola Tesla held a view of the aether more akin to it actually being the electromagnetic field.
See also luminiferous aether for the late 19th century invocation of this concept by physicists as an attempt to reconcile electromagnetic theory and Newtonian physics.
This meaning of a signal-carrying medium is the origin of the name EthernetEthernet is a packet-based computer networking technology for local area networks (LANs). It defines wiring and signaling for the physical layer, and packet formats and protocols for the media access control (MAC)/ data link layer of the OSI model. Ethern.
2 Greek mythology
Aether ("upper air"), in Greek mythologyGreek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. Our surviving sources of mythology are either transcriptions of this spoken word, o, was the personification of the "upper sky", space and heaven. He is the pure, upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to "aer", which mortals breathed. He was the son of ErebusIn Greek mythology, Erebus or rebos was a primordial god, personification of darkness, offspring of Chaos alone. He was brother of Nyx and father of Aether by himself and, with Nyx, Hemera, Moros, Charon, Eros and the Keres. According to some later legend and NyxIn Greek mythology, Nyx was the primordial goddess of the night. Nyx in Hesiod In Hesiod's Theogony, Night is born of Chaos; her offspring are many, and telling. With her brother Erebus, Night gives birth to Aether ("atmosphere") and Hemera ("day"). Later, and brother of HemeraIn Greek mythology, Hemera was a primordial goddess, born of Erebus. She was the goddess of the daytime. Hemera's sister, Nyx, was the goddess of the night. Hemera left Tartarus just as Nyx entered it; when Hemera returned, Nyx left. Thalassa, the primord. He is the soul of the world and all life emanates from him. The aether was also known as Zeus defensive wall; the bound that locked Tartaros from the cosmos.
