Daily Archives: 2020-06-01
Olympic Hot Springs-Boulder Creek Recreation Area, Olympic Nat’l Park
lympic Hot Springs-Boulder Creek Recreation Area is a rustic walk-in destination on the grounds of the long-gone former . The old automobile-campground is still here, with the old driveways running between campsites. It’s a 2.4 mile hike in, but it’s all on the section of . The natural hot springs are still there, and primitive …
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Happy Lake Ridge, Olympic Nat’l Park
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 …