Lorentz\:
If we assume that bodies shrink in the direction of their movement in relationship to the aether, that would explain why we do not perceive this aether wind.
Boltzmann\:
Then wouldn\u2019t it be simpler to just do away with it?
Lorentz\:
In that case which medium would bear the electromagnetic waves? After all, waves of water are inconceivable without water\!
Planck\:
At any rate, colleague Lorentz\u2019s aether seems more trustworthy to me than your atoms, Mr. Boltzmann\! Admittedly, I can imagine that heat phenomena may be attributed to the movement of atoms. But it\u2019s a different question whether this image also corresponds with reality. In that case heat would merely be a statistical problem, a dance of atoms.
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