Time and Time Again ...

I enjoyed reading The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, 2018.  A fine summary of what physicists and philosophers of the past and present have thought about time, cogent examples, poetic analogies, good explanations of the issues involved, clear and readable.  

"The entire evolution of science would suggest that the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not permanence.  Not of being, but of becoming.
We can think of the world as made up of things.  Of substances.  Of entities.  Of something that is. 
Or we can think of it as made up of events. Of happenings.  Of processes.  Of something that occurs."
-  Order of Time, p. 97  

I now have two other books to read by Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist and popular science author.  I borrowed the two books from the Cascade Library Branch of the Vancouver Regional Library District.    

Seven Brief Lesson on Physics, 2016

Reality is Not Wat It Seems: The Journey into Quantum Gravity, 2017.  

One book I am now studying each day is Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JAVSCRIPT, and Web Graphics by Jennifer Niederst Robbins, 2018.  I am designing my first CSS page for a cellphone display.  

Process Philosophy: Bibliography, History, Links, Information, Quotes.  By Michael P. Garofalo    

My own recent poetic reflections on Time, from my Slices of Time After Time:

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"The arrow of Time never rests,
moving forward unrelenting
irreversible
from hot towards cold
from organized to disorganized
from past to future
from moving towards stillness
from life towards death.

Or, so it seems,
      to us,
      with our little particulars in view,
      and our social survival habits a must.

The spiderwebs of Time are legion,
multitudes of nows of heres;
Uncountable heres and theres
      unhitched
from any eternal present everywhere."  .....

the surf swallowed

all in its way─

night and day

the sea
smashed on the shore─
drifting thoughts

Reading about Washington State

I use the Fort Vancouver Regional Library System (FVRL) [Three Creeks and Vancouver Mall libraries], and the Washington State University at Vancouver Library to borrow books about Washington State and the Northwest.  I also have purchased numerous books on these subjects since April of 2017 when we moved to Vancouver, Washington.  We have also traveled extensively in Washington  State.

Since childhood, I have always enjoyed reading books about travel, geography, science, technology, nature, and history.  Since 1998, I have done much more reading about Northern California, Oregon, and Washington. 

My next trip will be to explore the Klickitat River from Goldendale to White Salmon. 

Recently, I have read four books related to rivers or cities in Washington State.

Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West.  By John M. Findlay and Bruce W. Hevly.  Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography.  University of Washington Press, 2011.  Index, bibliography, notes, 384 pages.  ISBN: 978-0295990972.  FVRL.  The story of the Hanford nuclear products production plants (1942-1990) and toxic nuclear waster storage (1950-) along the Columbia River; and the development of the nearby cities of Richmond, Kennewick, and Pasco, Washington. 

The Spokane River.  Edited by Paul Lindholdt.  University of Washington Press, 2018.  Index, biographies, reading list, 282 pages.  FVRL. 

Oregon River Maps and Fishing Guide.  Edited By Doug Rose.  Frank Amato Publications, 2014.  88 pages.  ISBN: 978-1571885142.  VSCL.  Many rivers flow north from the Oregon Cascades into the Columbia River: Willamette, Sandy, Hood, John Day, Deschutes.  Excellent resource for river trips and fishing. 


Washington River Maps and Fishing Guide.  Edited By Doug Rose.  Frank Amato Publications, 2013.  87 pages.  ISBN: 978-1571885135.  VSCL.  Excellent resource for river trips and fishing.  

Nuclear Disaster

I am interested in solar power.  

I just finished reading:

Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster.  By David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.  New York, the New Press, copyright 2014 by the Union of Concerned Scientists.  Notes and references, index, 309 pages.  ISBN: 9781595589088.  

"On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to shift the Earth's axis by several inches sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors.  The world watched in horror as the reactor's safety systems failed and explosions turned concrete and steel buildings into rubble.  In just a few hours a terrible natural disaster triggered a technological catastrophe - a triple meltdown that became the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl."

This book rigorously documents the tragic and unrecoverable losses from nuclear power plant failures due to flooding and electrical power disruption.  

Over 20,000 people died from the tsunami.  The earthquake was 9 level jolting for over 3 minutes.  

This book also covers the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania.  It draws out insider information about the nuclear power industry, regulatory controls, safety, vulnerability, planning, consumer demand, geography, technology, governmental management and oversight, scientific concerns and experts.  

Explosive!!!