(August 3, 2011 at 4:58 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Not what I asked, how can you prove light exists to someone who cannot see at all?
By carefully explaining it to them. Just because someone cannot perceive something does not mean they can't understand that it exists. I am colorblind and cannot see as many colors as you can, yet I am fully aware that colors exist outside of my perception.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell