Question

I’m a liberal arts major so science, while interesting, is not something I claim expertise in. Still, there are questions that occur to me. Among them is one prompted by this:

My question is this: having disposed of a universe-permeating field known as “ether” in the 19th Century, what exactly is the difference between that and another universe-permeating field called a “Higgs field” in the 21st Century? I’m wondering what Mike Flynn makes of all this.