What’s an alphon? Nothing whatsoever. But at one time, they might have been the thing that provide the basic building block of all chemistry. Let’s look at the science that might have been. It’s the ...

PROF. EDDINGTON (NATURE, April 14, p. 201) expresses well the properties that a substratum of matter, light, and electric force should have, and the reasons for combining space and æther, the two ...