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Indeed, nowadays everyone knows that radio waves propagate through quantum fields which pervade the entire universe including vacuums.

Definitely not ether, those foolish old scientists got the name wrong :D




I don’t think anyone thinks fields exist, physically at least. They’re mathematical constructs that model certain operations but there’s no EM field or G field by itself, independently of a physical particle expressing these forces




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