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Category Archives: Science
Occult Movement, 19th C.
ccult Movement phenomena of the 19th century might be passed off as so much psycho-socio-cultural snake-oil and patent-medicine, or worse as simply a weakness to which our ancestors in their more-limited state of develop would have been prone, but to which modern-day people have of course evolved & grown beyond.
Aether as perspective on science
ether turned out not to exist, and the scientific challenges that prompted its developement were addressed, nominally solved & pragmatically retired, by other means. The ‘dual nature’ of light (particle-wave), and all electromagnetic radiation is the accepted answer. The problem is, we can no more directly demonstrate the existence of these light ‘particles’, than we …
Dark Matter repeating an old failed-strategy?
ark Matter is not being proposed because any new evidence has been found for a new phenomenon. Instead, it is proposed because an existing package of theory, a formula for how things work, appears to be broken. ‘Uh, oh … Dark Matter, maybe’!
Parsimony in science & technology
arsimony in science & scholastics – aka Occam’s Razor – advises us not make a problem any tougher than it has to be. It’s an essential principle in technology, for troubleshooting & maintainance of our Stuff. It says the most likely answer or solution, is the most obvious or direct one. If you flip the …
Plate Tectonics
Atlantis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantis_map_1882_crop.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantis_map_1882.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_L._Donnelly Gordon Stein has noted that “most of what Donnelly said was highly questionable or downright wrong.”[11] [Like Lemuria?!] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Atlantis.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scott-Elliott
Phillip Sclater
scientist, Lemuria theory
Mineralized stream, West Lake Mills Trail, Olympic Nat’l Park
Mineralized stream, follows the former shoreline of the former Lake Mills, now drained as part of the . Well out along this 2 mile trail is a small stream, in which everything the water flows over and splashes on, is heavily encrusted with lime.
Mineralized stream, Michael’s Cabin, Elwha River, Olympic Nat’l Park
is a preserved historic log cabin about 1.8 mi from the beginning of the , a major trail in . Near this cabin a small brook crosses the trail, and everything the water touches or splashes on is coated with (what looks like) lime.