John - Additional thoughts
I have learned that sometimes solutions or insights to things require one to entertain "odd" ideas which may go against conventional wisdom. Once you get a taste of this, you seek more, and are surprised where it leads. --- This is how I found your site.
For your amusement --
The Rime of the Ancient Water Bridge
Confounded the theories, confounded the texts,
Professors were in dismay;
We did speak of phenomena
Anomalous and fey:
All in two electrified cups
With voltage high between,
Floating right across the gap
A water bridge was seen.
Day after day, day after day,
For a hundred years and more,
Respected theorists denied the sight:
‘Twas heresy, they swore.
Water, water, floating there,
What mystery doth it veil?
Water, water, floating there,
And all the theories fail.
Our settled knowledge overthrown!
That ever should this be!
Unorthodox the thoughts that rose,
From peer review set free.
About, about; in reel and rout
Did speculations dance;
And voices shrill argue still
The bridge’s significance/
And some in dreams assuréd were
To utter oaths uncouth:
Nine fathoms deep in certitude
Of orthodoxy’s truth!
But every observation that
Was spurned with scorn and mock
Revealed accepted theory
To be a bloody crock!
Ah! well-a-day! The thing to watch
Is the phenomenon:
The water goes its merry way;
Our thoughts must follow on.
Mel Acheson
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/06 ... er-bridge/