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Why was the hypothesis of Luminiferous Aether introduced? - The Hypothesis of Luminiferous Aether was introduced to answer the question; "when light moves through a vacuum what is it that oscillates"? Since it was known that when acoustic waves move through a medium the wave is really the propagating disturbance of the medium whose particles ossicles as the wave moves. Therefore since physicists could not conceive of light waves propagating without a physical medium to do so, it was ...