JezA;618222 Wrote: > Simon Marius' claims to have seen the moons of Jupiter were dismissed by > his critics as syphilitic hallucinations. Everyone knew the sun went > round the earth. He must have imagined them, mustn't he.
What if all we ever had for 4 centuries were anecdotal sightings of the moons of Jupiter? And only some "Golden Eyed" people could see them? It's a bad example, because Marius didn't just claim to have seen the moons, he worked out their periods of revolution, so that anyone with a telescope at the time could have observed the moons and verified whether he had the periods right. He made predictions that others could verify, and which were very shortly verified over and over again. We have photos of the moons of Jupiter from probes and telescopes, and any amateur astrophotographer can take pictures of them. We've also discovered dozens of other satellites in the solar system, we understand their motion very well, understand a lot of other things about them. We're awash with data about the moons of Jupiter, not just anecdotes. Does anyone think that we'll ever be in a similar situation with the supposedly audible qualities of exotic cables? More appropriate examples would be the canals of Mars or 'N-Rays' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_ray). There are 'many other such examples' (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir/langmuir.htm) of observed phenomena which just didn't pan out. They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan The properties of wire have been very well understood for a very long time, and have been probed with measuring equipment much, much more sensitive than our hearing. They've had to be because wire is used in applications requiring much, much higher sensitivities and tolerances than audio. To speculate that "golden ears" are hearing some phenomena so far missed by electrical engineers and materials scientists is a really reaching IMO. > > Don't hear what you don't want to hear. I find this rather petulant. Do you have anything to suggest that skepticism isn't warranted? -- Daverz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daverz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86298
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