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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: ether upon a square inch of surface must be about
17,000,000,000,000, or seventeen billions of pounds."[4] Yet at
the same time the resistance offered by the ether to the
planetary motions is too minute to be appreciable. "All our
ordinary notions," says Professor Jevons, "must be laid aside in
contemplating such an hypothesis; yet [it is] no more than the
observed phenomena of light and heat force us to accept. We
cannot deny even the strange suggestion of Dr. Young, that there
may be independent worlds, some possibly existing in different
parts of space, but others perhaps pervading each other, unseen
and unknown, in the same space. For if we are bound to admit the
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