Reply #72: That is a red herring argument...

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It is not about saying that "Images and sound will travel through the ether in the future..." A real scientist will laugh out of town for many reasons, the simplest one of them: there is no ether. Hand waving and conjectures are no science...

If you were to say: there is this thing called electromagnetism (even though Maxwell had done a terrifict job about explaining it a couple centuries ago, but I digress), and how you can encode image and audio by encoding using wave frequency or amplitude modulation, and how you can transmit and receive these waves... which once decoded can be used to excite some electrons through a vacuum tube as well as using them waves to carry current through a magnet to pulsate a membrane that generates the sound you just encoded back to you.

You could have said that, and scientist 200 years ago would not only not laugh you out of town, they would be damn interested in hearing more about what you just said.


Those least acquitted with science are the first ones to attack it...