Cribbing shamelessly for Wiki "The phrase was coined in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, referring to supposed alignments of numerous places of geographical and historical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths, natural ridge-tops and water-fords. In his books Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track, he sought to identify ancient trackways in the British landscape. Watkins later developed theories that these alignments were created for ease of overland trekking by line-of-sight navigation during neolithic times, and had persisted in the landscape over millennia."
Well ... Nobody is ASKING you to believe in them - it costs nothing to test for yourself - get a set of dowsing rods (a couple of wire coat hangers will do) and try it out. I've proved to myself (and I was the biggest sceptic of all) that it works for me and my bees ...
There's not much I agree with Roger Patterson about in beekeeping terms and he is about as traditional as they come ... but read his piece on dowsing here ..
http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/leylines.html
I find it pretty extraordinary that so many people (who clearly have never tried dowsing for anything - let alone leylines) are so vehement about the fact that there is no force beneath our feet that affects the way things work in nature above ... if you object to the term Leylines - call it something else !
There's a lot of things that cannot be explained in nature - why is the Golden Ratio so prevalent in nature ?
As recently as 2010 Golden Ratio Discovered in the Quantum World:
"The golden ratio, which is equal to approximately 1.618, can be found in various aspects of our life, including biology, architecture, and the arts. But only recently was it discovered that this special ratio is also reflected in nanoscale, thanks to researchers from the U.K.'s Oxford University. Their research, published in the journal Science on Jan. 8, examined chains of linked magnetic cobalt niobate (CoNb2O6) particles only one particle wide to investigate the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. They applied a magnetic field at right angles to an aligned spin of the magnetic chains to introduce more quantum uncertainty. Following the changes in field direction, these small magnets started to magnetically resonate."
Epoch Times - January 20, 2010
What is it about the Fibonacci Sequence that it occurs so often in nature ?
Even Bees have a foot in the Fibonacci camp -
"Fibonacci numbers also appear in the pedigrees of idealized honeybees, according to the following rules:
If an egg is laid by an unmated female, it hatches a male or drone bee.
If, however, an egg was fertilized by a male, it hatches a female.
Thus, a male bee always has one parent, and a female bee has two.
If one traces the pedigree of any male bee (1 bee), he has 1 parent (1 bee), 2 grandparents, 3 great-grandparents, 5 great-great-grandparents, and so on. This sequence of numbers of parents is the Fibonacci sequence. The number of ancestors at each level, Fn, is the number of female ancestors, which is Fn−1, plus the number of male ancestors, which is Fn−2.[65] This is under the unrealistic assumption that the ancestors at each level are otherwise unrelated."
We do know that designs that conform to the Golden Ratio are sub-consciously preferred by people - but why ?
There are some things that, as yet, cannot be explained - it does not mean that there is nothing in our observations - just that, as yet, we don't have a logical explanation.
Our ancestors knew that planting crops by the phases of the moon could mean the difference between a good crop and a mediocre crop - presumably, as they did not understand the science they relied upon observation and trial and error. They saw and they believed - it is only in modern times that we understand the effect the moon has on our planet and we can ascribe scientific explanations to something that was being done almost since agriculture as we know it was in evidence.
Believe what you want, belittle what you cannot logically explain - the only person missing out is you.
at the moment some of my hives have three (or more) supers on - none of which contain ripe honey
