John Smith wrote:

...
Did it/he/they have anything to say about visions of silvery and copper
colored fingers plucking the harp strings of the seemingly invisible ether?

Regards,
JS

This:

"The greatest change in the axiomatic basis of physics - in other words,
of our conception of the structure of reality - since Newton laid the
foundation of theoretical physics was brought about by Faraday's and
Maxwell's work on electromagnetic field phenomena.
Faraday must have grasped with unerring instinct the artificial nature
of all attempts to refer electromagnetic phenomena to
actions-at-a-distance between electric particles reacting on each other.
How was each single iron filing among a lot scattered on a piece of
paper to know of the single electric particles running round in a nearby
conductor? All these electric particles together seemed to create in the
surrounding space a condition which in turn produced a certain order in
the filings. These spatial states, today called fields, would, he was
convinced, furnish the clue to the mysterious electromagnetic
interactions. He conceived these fields as states of mechanical stress
in an elastically distended body (ether)."
(Albert Einstein, 1954)

From he

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Physic...trum-Waves.htm

Regards,
JS