This eventually led to the concussion theory of rain-making -- the idea that by setting off explosions (artillery fire would do nicely) the atmosphere's tenuous equilibrium would be disturbed and rain would fall.
Lavinia, the lovelorn girl in "Theories of Rain," turns out to be the long-lost sister of Caleb, the teacher in "Two Rivers," who helps establish a school for the deaf.
In the very beautiful story entitled "Theories of Rain," Lavinia, the narrator, addressing in her mind this same Caleb, the brother who was lost to her in childhood and whom she is destined never to find again, says, "Through that channel of longing, the world enters me".
In theory, a few extra weeks of rain and chill should not derail a $4.4 trillion economy.
According to theory, this liquid helium forms droplets of "rain" that fall farther towards Saturn's core, unleashing gravitational potential energy that makes Saturn more luminous.
"One of our theories was that when there is a lot of rain, birds and mosquitoes can feed separately," Mark said.
The results reveal that the entropy theory based multi-criteria strategy provides an optimal design of rain gauge network which is of vital importance in regional hydrological study and water resources management.
Many theories focus on clustering of droplets, but those theories face some fundamental problems in explaining the sudden onset of rain, says Bernhard Mehlig, a physicist at the Göteborg University in Sweden.
Of course false beliefs may play a role, which the theory of magic-as-bad-science seizes upon; the rain dancer may think he increases the probability of rain.
Points of rain appeared….
