Scientist will soon stumble upon the "Galactic Internet".
And this will stick a fork in the Theory of Relativity. It is done.
Ivory tower physicists have been ignoring all of the disproofs of the Theory of Relativity, but this discovery, will so easily make it apparent that Relativity is completely wrong.
This "Galactic Internet" is an aether phenomena. Where, alien races communicate across the universe in real time. Almost instantaneous from one side of the universe to the other.
This will do two things. Humans will develop a wireless internet that everyone on the planet can use just by having a special antenna. The other thing is that EVERYONE will know that the speed of light is not a limit as Einstein posited.
The Aether
The Luminiferous Aether is a field that permeats all matter. It may be the space, before space exists. The structure that puts atoms in a location.
Tesla said that the Aether shares the properties of gases, liquids and solids.
You know how sound travels in the air? You can see the lightning flash, and then a few seconds and you hear the thunder. The speed of sound, through the air) is quite slow. Now, if you compare that to the speed of sound through a liquid, the speed through a liquid is much faster, and goes much further (see whale songs) And sound is even faster in a solid. In a solid, the speed is so quick that it gets tricky to measure.
In the aether, it appears that light travelling is akin to sound travelling through the air. The speed of light is the slowest method of travel in the aether.
What these scientists will do is figure out how to "knock" on the aether. Like you would hit a piece of metal with a hammer.
They won't be able to measure the speed of propagation.
There are people already talking on the line
Imagine getting a new phone, just invented, and finding people are already talking on it. And in some language you don't know.
This is what we are going to see.
Aliens are already communicating this way. And after we discover this, we will wonder why we never though of this before. (It has to do with throwing out Tesla, and propping up Einstein)
Once we get the receiver worked out, we will start getting all kinds of data. It will take us years, probably decades to decode any of it. And then more time for linguists to work out the language.
Of course, we will be being visited by aliens, and they may give us hints on translation.
They may in fact come here very soon to tell us how to be polite while using the phone. Like, hang up the *@#$ phone, when you are not using it.
Einstein's Speed of Light Is Toast
One of the first things that will be apparent is that this is A LOT faster than the speed of light.
We currently do not have silicon chips that are fast enough to work as a timer for the speed of a transmission. Across the earth, it will seem to be instantaneous. And it will not be until we start talking to alien races clear across the universe that we will start to see that it is not instantaneous, and that it is just very fast. We are talking trillionths of a second.
What Einstein hated, despised, about Quantum Mechanics is that it was "Spooky action at a distance." And here, we will see that laid bare. Things happening far faster than the speed of light.
And since Einstein's theories start with the premise that the speed of light is constant, and that nothing can accelerate past that speed, than the discovery of knocking on the aether will show that Einstein's theories are complete bunk.
Of course, my favorite part of this discovery is that it will bring internet to everyone on earth, no matter where they are. No more wires. No more worrying about "bad" nations cutting fiber-optic cables. No more worrying about your internet provider dropping you because you said bad things on the internet. The govern-cements will no longer be able to control/censor the ethernet.
Thanks Musk, it was nice of you to make Starlink, but it will be no longer needed in a short while.
Of course, this discovery will quickly destroy what is left of Modern Materialistic Physics. Instead of seeing everything as grit; a bunch of balls bouncing around, we will move to aether theories, and an ontological view of how the universe works.
Say so long to the idea that the universe is slowly winding down in an entropic crash. The universe is much bigger, and much more important, than to be just a clock winding down.