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History of Science & Technology Q&A (March 23, 2022)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
The Evolution of the Ether
The Higgs mechanism in the standard model is essentially an ether. The cosmic microwave background defines a preferred reference frame for our universe, and we're moving at about a thousandths of the speed of light with respect to that. In our models of physics, in a sense, everything is ether.
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