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Ether is to light as air is to sound, but far more efficient.
Light can go anywhere, so ether must be everywhere. Everything moves through it.
Ether particles knock together like dominoes as soon as they're disturbed, a the speed of light. If a human being could sense those disturbances, he would know about possibilities as they formed, not as they unfolded. He would know you were going to do something when you decided to do it, not when you did it. And he would know if you were considering it, because that would make a wave too.
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Trích: "The Watchmaker of Filigree Street", Natasha Pulley
1. Chemistry: a pleasant-smelling, colorless, volatile liquid that is highly flammable. It is used as an anesthetic and as a solvent or intermediate in industrial processes.
[Alternative names: diethyl ether, ethoxyethane; chemical formula: C 2H 5OC 2H 5.]
2. Physics, archaic: a very rarefied and highly elastic substance formerly believed to permeate all space, including the interstices between the particles of matter, and to be the medium whose vibrations constituted light and other electromagnetic radiation.
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