Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-128.151.150.18-20161013025548/@comment-25316824-20161016052108

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

Yes, the Classical elements are Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, and Aether (divine air/space). ..........................wait.

.....What if, Gravity Dust, and possibly Barrier Dust, what we have called Kinetic Dust so far......is actually Aether? That explains how it's an "element of nature". That is thin. Aether was supposed to be a divine wind (Kamikaze connection?) that was breathed by the gods. The word αἰθήρ  (aither) in Homeric Greek means "pure, fresh air" or "clear sky". Already it seems to correlate more to wind than anything else.

Furthermore, when Aether is personified as a god in mythology, he represents the upper air, not energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(mythology)

While aether was largely used to describe what we now call gravity before the Principia was published it certianly has no connection to "Barrier".

The theory might work with a little "tweeking". Gravity is always a attractive force. It pulls things together and never repells. Barrier appears to react but never be proactive, like a force field. If these two dust types were opposites of each other (perhaps reacting violenty if they came in contact) then we might assume that Aether covers both of these.

Let me reinterate. This is VERY thin. Both Aristotle's interpretation, the mythology of Aether and the ancient greek translate suggest ties to wind/air.