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From: grl@charm.UUCP (George Lake)
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Subject: ether
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 08:49:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 19 08:49:05 1985
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Space and the vacuum do have certain properties.  We can
detect an absolute motion by looking at the microwave background
radiation.  It is a 2.7 degree blackbody that is known to
have only one anisotropy-- the motion of our galaxy at 
a velocity of 600 km/s in the direction of HERCULES.

But-- ether is the stuff that light needed to propogate in--
       the material that the wave was moving through.

Higgs fields, 2.7degree background, etc-- None of that is ether.