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Those were not batteries.
by Fatnino 3y ago
Those were not batteries.
- culi 3y agoI didn't say they were! Since those, and many similar artifacts, were destroyed when the US invaded Iraq we'll likely never know what they really were. Regardless of whether or not they're "batteries", it's well acknowledged that they produce voltage. It's not outside the realm of possibility that the highly experimental people of the area found some correlation between those devices they made and their agricultural yield. You don't need modern physics to simply observe. Before penicillin was "discovered" it was well known on battlefields that you should apply a moldy piece of bread to wounds (the most common bread mold is Penicillium). Another example could be mycorrhizal fungi. Many indigenous people had complex cosmological theories that included trees being able to "talk" to each other. Westerners who had no concept of this might have translated it as "forest spirits" and other woo-hoo. Even if the underlying conceptualization is "wrong" it can still be useful to model out experiments and take observations. We can just as easily imagine an alien species come to learn about our concept of a "photon". There's no such "thing" as a photon. It's just a metaphor we use to talk about the fact that light has properties of both particles and waves. Maybe those aliens would listen to our ramblings and translate it as us believing in some sort of "light spirit".
- Fatnino 3y agoMy opinion is that your are making wild congectural leaps to get to agriculture from these jars. https://youtu.be/cRZR_TeVi5Y?si=YBGIkWTkeNwwCXR6 https://youtu.be/cRZR_TeVi5Y?si=YBGIkWTkeNwwCXR6