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Luminiferous aether, an Uncommon card
Luminiferous aether or ether is the formerly postulated medium for the propagation of light.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 76
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 100,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was invoked to explain the ability of the apparently wave-based light to propagate through empty space, something that waves should not be able to do.
- The assumption of a spatial plenum of luminiferous aether, rather than a spatial vacuum, provided the theoretical medium that was required by wave theories of light.
- The aether hypothesis was the topic of considerable debate throughout its history, as it required the existence of an invisible and infinite material with no interaction with physical objects.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Luminiferous aether article was read about 100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 76: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Luminiferous aether
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Luminiferous aether (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : No machine-readable author provided. Cronholm144 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.


