Note 2 — II THE ETHER AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
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Lodge, in arguing in favor of an ether, holds that its presence cannot be detected because it pervades all space and all matter. His favorite analogy is to point out the extreme unlikelihood of a deep-sea fish discovering the presence of the water with which it is surrounded on all sides;—all of which tells us nothing about the ether, but does try to tell us why we cannot detect it.2