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The aether debate applies to waves, yes, but not to photons. I think Ed Witten had alot to do with the influential assumption of positing a membrane which conforms to Einstein's GR. In this way, any disturbances in the membrane require a medium, as all waves do, but in QM the energy transfers can be quantized according to probability effects that can jump any distance without propagation - no space, time, motion, mass or medium is required if the information is recreated - sort of like instantaneous teleportation.