It does not seek to persuade its audience of anything or educate them into the way things are or, indeed, how they might be on some alternative view of matters.

它不试图说服其听众接受任何事物或教育他们了解事物的本来面目，或者实际上， 他们可能如何看待事物的另一种观点。

This billiard-ball view of matter dominated the imagination of physicists until quite modern times, until, in fact, it was replaced by the electromagnetic theory, which in its turn is developing into a new atomism.

这种对物质的台球观点一直主导着物理学家的想象力，直到相当近代，直到事实上，它被电磁理论所取代，而电磁理论又发展成为一种新的原子论。