Spiritual Scientist

[songbird]

                                                                               For Nicholas

[♀♥Lady Urania♥♀]

[songbird]

These are great pictures!
This folder was created for Nicholas so he can tell us all about his Mad Spiritual Science experiments.     Hope he enjoys our depictions of him so far.  I found some crazy Mad Scientist pictures that I wanted to add, but thought maybe they were just a little too 'mad'. LOL

[♀♥Lady Urania♥♀]

Im gonna put this one here too:

[♀♥Lady Urania♥♀]

And this one:

[Nai]

LOL, thanks for holding down the fort for me.  Times are quite busy right now, so when I asked for this folder I underestimated when I would have time to pop in. Never the less I'm typing up the first post now, had it just about finished then it got deleted ( I never remembered to save it) when the computer power supply died and Windows was shut down the wrong way. It has been a pretty crazy past couple of weeks. First post will be shorter than originally intended, so it is.

I promised myself two or three theory posts and at least one experiment. lol, I'm doing all this in between reading to my daughter, so here goes.

As for mad scientist pictures being too mad, no worries, wouldn't have asked for this to be called Mad Spiritual Science if I didn't mean it!

I love the weird science song.

[songbird]

[Nai]

Yes, very important! Occam's Razor.

"Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness"): "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", roughly translated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity".

This is often paraphrased as "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood.

Originally a tenet of the reductionist philosophy of nominalism, it is more often taken today as a heuristic maxim (rule of thumb) that advises economy, parsimony, or simplicity, often or especially in scientific theories."

Or simply as Einstein said:

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

[Nai]

"For instance, classical physics is simpler than subsequent theories, but should not be preferred over them because it is demonstrably wrong in certain respects. It is the first requirement of a theory that it works, that its predictions are correct and it has not been falsified. Occam's razor is used to adjudicate between theories that have already passed these tests, and which are moreover equally well-supported by the evidence."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor#Variations

[songbird]

Yes, very important! Occam's Razor.

"Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness"): "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", roughly translated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity".

This is often paraphrased as "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood.

Originally a tenet of the reductionist philosophy of nominalism, it is more often taken today as a heuristic maxim (rule of thumb) that advises economy, parsimony, or simplicity, often or especially in scientific theories."

Or simply as Einstein said:

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Or what I tell my kids...Keep it Simple Silly?

I love how this sounds :lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony')

[Nai]

yeah, that too. Glad you changed it from the more traditional keep it simple stupid. I live by the keep it silly smartass principle.