Suppose that you read that astronomers list the age of the universe as about 14 billion years. This value is based on?

From the EM waves that permeate all the space of Space. An EM wave is both, varying Electrical field (E) & Magnetic field (H) propagating in planes perpendicular to each other & the line of propagation as well (that accounts for the 3 dimensionality & its adequacy for the phenomena), stated as Power (P), in the Poynting theorem P = E X H. Read JC Maxwell's treatise on the subject.

Further, inverse square law for both the fields, hints at "Action at a distance", irrespective of medium (of propagation). Well before a century ago, a medium called "Aether" was hypothesised to support the propagation . Michelson-Morley experiment disproved comprehensively it that set Einstein thinking & who came out with the Special Theory (of Relativity).

Its all another big story.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.