Nine Rebel Astronomy Theories That Went Dark - Nautilus
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"luminiferous aether" would be a great screenname
And it'd be historcally accurate too - scientists were so convinced aether existed they kept designing increasingly complex experiments to detect it until Michelson-Morley finally killed the theory.