Funnily enough I was thinking of you as I wrote this, in particular when I wrote 'the laws of physics are universal'. I thought to myself, good old @builderofcastles will have something to say about that :-)
But, the problem with all the above logic is that everything in our science books are wrong.
Yet the very technology we are communicating with right now is based on that 'wrong' science. Pretty nuts huh?
:-)
Yep, it comes down to a difference between science and engineering.
Yes, there was a repeatable phenomena, and it has been utilized and developed into the modern binary computer and internets.
However, our explanations of those repeatable phenomena are incorrect, and so engineers are finding road blocks in scaling both larger and smaller of microchips. If they had correct science, they could be making circuits 100 times faster and less energy intensive, today. But now, we have to wait until someone just stumbles blindly upon something that works.
And maybe this time, they will say, "oooooh, maybe we should take into account the lumineferous aether, all of these anomalies simply work out if we use that."