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In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'.

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Arthur Eddington
Age: 61 †
Born: 1882
Born: December 28
Died: 1944
Died: November 22
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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Arthur Eddington
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