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THE NUCLEAR FAMILY 1969
NUCLEAR FAMILY 19769
THE MAGICALALPHABET
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THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) THE FLORENTINE CANTICA I HELL (L'INFERNO) INTRODUCTION Page 9 "Midway this way of life we're bound upon I woke to find myself in a dark wood, Where the right road was wholly lost and gone."
THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) THE FLORENTINE CANTICA I HELL (L'INFERNO) INTRODUCTION Page 9 "Power failed high fantasy here; yet, swift to move Even as a wheel moves equal, free from jars, Already my heart and will were wheeled by love, The Love that moves the sun and other stars."
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Signaling theory is useful for describing behavior when two parties (individuals or organizations) have access to different information. Typically, one party, the sender, must choose whether and how to communicate (or signal) that information, and the other party, the receiver, must choose how to interpret the signal. In contract theory, signalling (or signaling; see spelling differences) is the idea that one party (termed the agent) credibly conveys some information about itself to another party (the principal
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Signalling - definition of signalling by The Free Dictionary Define signalling. signalling synonyms, signalling pronunciation, signalling translation, English dictionary definition of signalling.
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JUST SIX NUMBERS Martin Rees 1999 OUR COSMIC HABITAT I PLANETS STARS AND LIFE Page 24
Page 24 /25 ' "A proton is 1,836 times heavier than an electron, and the number 1,836 would have the same connotations to any 'intelligence' "
AS ABOVE SO BELOW THIS IS THE SEEN OF THE SCENE UNSEEN THE UNSEEN SCENE OF THE SCENE UNSEEN THIS IS THE SEEN AS BELOW SO ABOVE Martin Rees 1999 A proton is 1,836 times heavier than an electron, and the number 1,836 would have the same connotations to any 'intelligence' "
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THE JOURNEYMAN 1977
THE JOURNEYWOMAN 1978
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LIGHT AND LIFE Lars Olof Bjorn 1976 Page 197 "By writing the 26 letters of the alphabet in a certain order one may put down almost any message (this book 'is written with the same letters' as the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Winnie the Pooh, only the order of the letters differs). In the same way Nature is able to convey with her language how a cell and a whole organism is to be constructed and how it is to function. Nature has succeeded better than we humans; for the genetic code there is only one universal language which is the same in a man, a bean plant and a bacterium." "BY WRITING THE 26 LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET IN A CERTAIN ORDER ONE MAY PUT DOWN ALMOST ANY MESSAGE"
"BY WRITING THE 26 LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET IN A CERTAIN ORDER ONE MAY PUT DOWN ALMOST ANY MESSAGE"
A HISTORY OF GOD Karen Armstrong 1993 The God of the Mystics Page 250 "Perhaps the most famous of the early Jewish mystical texts is the fifth century Sefer Yezirah (The Book of Creation). There is no attempt to describe the creative process realistically; the account is unashamedly symbolic and shows God creating the world by means of language as though he were writing a book. But language has been entirely transformed and the message of creation is no longer clear. Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is given a numerical value; by combining the letters with the sacred numbers, rearranging them in endless configurations, the mystic weaned his mind away from the normal connotations of words."
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THE FAR YONDER SCRIBE AND OFT TIMES SHADOWED SUBSTANCES WATCHED IN FINE AMAZE THE ZED ALIZ ZED IN SWIFT REPEAT SCATTER STAR DUST AMONGST THE LETTERS OF THEIR PROGRESS
THERE IS NO ATTEMPT MADE TO DESCRIBE THE CREATIVE PROCESS REALISTICALLY THE ACCOUNT IS SYMBOLIC AND SHOWS GOD CREATING THE WORLD BY MEANS OF LANGUAGE AS THOUGH WRITING A BOOK BUT LANGUAGE ENTIRELY TRANSFORMED THE MESSAGE OF CREATION IS CLEAR EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET IS GIVEN A NUMERICAL VALUE BY COMBINING THE LETTERS WITH THE SACRED NUMBERS REARRANGING THEM IN ENDLESS CONFIGURATIONS THE MYSTIC WEANED THE MIND AWAY FROM THE NORMAL CONNOTATIONS OF WORDS
NUMBER 9 THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE Cecil Balmond 1998 Cycles and Patterns Page 165 Patterns "The essence of mathematics is to look for patterns. Our minds seem to be organised to search for relationships and sequences. We look for hidden orders. These intuitions seem to be more important than the facts themselves, for there is always the thrill at finding something, a pattern, it is a discovery - what was unknown is now revealed. Imagine looking up at the stars and finding the zodiac! Searching out patterns is a pure delight. Suddenly the counters fall into place and a connection is found, not necessarily a geometric one, but a relationship between numbers, pictures of the mind, that were not obvious before. There is that excitement of finding order in something that was otherwise hidden. And there is the knowledge that a huge unseen world lurks behind the facades we see of the numbers themselves."
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS A QUEST FOR THE BEGINNING AND THE END Graham Hancock 1995 Chapter 32 Speaking to the Unborn Page 285 "It is understandable that a huge range of myths from all over the ancient world should describe geological catastrophes in graphic detail. Mankind survived the horror of the last Ice Age, and the most plausible source for our enduring traditions of flooding and freezing, massive volcanism and devastating earthquakes is in the tumultuous upheavals unleashed during the great meltdown of 15,000 to 8000 BC. The final retreat of the ice sheets, and the consequent 300-400 foot rise in global sea levels, took place only a few thousand years before the beginning of the historical period. It is therefore not surprising that all our early civilizations should have retained vivid memories of the vast cataclysms that had terrified their forefathers. A message in the bottle of time" 'Of all the other stupendous inventions,' Galileo once remarked, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of men.3 If the 'precessional message' identified by scholars like Santillana, von Dechend and Jane Sellers is indeed a deliberate attempt at communication by some lost civilization of antiquity, how come it wasn't just written down and left for us to find? Wouldn't that have been easier than encoding it in myths? Perhaps. "What one would look for, therefore, would be a universal language, the kind of language that would be comprehensible to any technologically advanced society in any epoch, even a thousand or ten thousand years into the future. Such languages are few and far between, but mathematics is one of them" "WRITTEN IN THE ETERNAL LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS"
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THE DEATH OF GODS IN ANCIENT EGYPT Jane B. Sellars 1992 Page 204 "The overwhelming awe that accompanies the realization, of the measurable orderliness of the universe strikes modern man as well. Admiral Weiland E. Byrd, alone In the Antarctic for five months of polar darkness, wrote these phrases of intense feeling: Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! I could feel no doubt of oneness with the universe. The conviction came that the rhythm was too orderly. too harmonious, too perfect to be a product of blind chance - that, therefore there must be purpose in the whole and that man was part of that whole and not an accidental offshoot. It was a feeling that transcended reason; that went to the heart of man's despair and found it groundless. The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos; man was as rightfully a part of that cosmos as were the day and night.10 Returning to the account of the story of Osiris, son of Cronos god of' Measurable Time, Plutarch takes, pains to remind the reader of the original Egyptian year consisting of 360 days. Phrases are used that prompt simple mental. calculations and an attention to numbers, for example, the 360-day year is described as being '12 months of 30 days each'. Then we are told that, Osiris leaves on a long journey, during which Seth, his evil brother, plots with 72 companions to slay Osiris: He also secretly obtained the measure of Osiris and made ready a chest in which to entrap him. The, interesting thing about this part of the-account is that nowhere in the original texts of the Egyptians are we told that Seth, has 72 companions. We have already been encouraged to equate Osiris with the concept of measured time; his father being Cronos. It is also an observable fact that Cronos-Saturn has the longest sidereal period of the known planets at that time, an orbit. of 30 years. Saturn is absent from a specific constellation for that length of time. A simple mathematical fact has been revealed to any that are even remotely sensitive to numbers: if you multiply 72 by 30, the years of Saturn's absence (and the mention of Osiris's absence prompts one to recall this other), the resulting product is 2,160: the number of years required, for one 30° shift, or a shift: through one complete sign of the zodiac. This number multplied by the /Page205 / 12 signs also gives 25,920. (And Plutarch has reminded us of 12) If you multiply the unusual number 72 by 360, a number that Plutarch mentions several times, the product will be 25,920, again the number of years symbolizing the ultimate rebirth. This 'Eternal Return' is the return of, say, Taurus to the position of marking the vernal equinox by 'riding in the solar bark with. Re' after having relinquished this honoured position to Aries, and subsequently to the to other zodiacal constellations. Such a return after 25,920 years is indeed a revisit to a Golden Age, golden not only because of a remarkable symmetry In the heavens, but golden because it existed before the Egyptians experienced heaven's changeability. But now to inform the reader of a fact he or she may already know. Hipparaus did: not really have the exact figures: he was a trifle off in his observations and calculations. In his published work, On the Displacement of the Solstitial and Equinoctial Signs, he gave figures of 45" to 46" a year, while the truer precessional lag along the ecliptic is about 50 seconds. The exact measurement for the lag, based on the correct annual lag of 50'274" is 1° in 71.6 years, or 360° in 25,776 years, only 144 years less than the figure of 25,920. With Hipparchus's incorrect figures a 'Great Year' takes from 28,173.9 to 28,800 years, Incorrect by a difference of from 2,397.9 years to 3,024. Since Nicholas Copernicus (AD 1473-1543) has always been credited with giving the correct numbers (although Arabic astronomer Nasir al-Din Tusi,11 born AD 1201, is known to have fixed the Precession at 50°), we may correctly ask, and with justifiable astonishment 'Just whose information was Plutarch transmitting' AN IMPORTANT POSTSCRIPT Of course, using our own notational system, all the important numbers have digits that reduce to that amazing number 9 a number that has always delighted budding mathematician. Page 206 Somewhere along the way, according to Robert Graves, 9 became the number of lunar wisdom.12 This number is found often in the mythologies of the world. the Viking god Odin hung for nine days and nights on the World Tree in order to acquire the secret of the runes, those magic symbols out of which writing and numbers grew. Only a terrible sacrifice would give away this secret, which conveyed upon its owner power and dominion over all, so Odin hung from his neck those long 9 days and nights over the 'bottomless abyss'. In the tree were 9 worlds, and another god was said to have been born of 9 mothers. Robert Graves, in his White Goddess, Is intrigued by the seemingly recurring quality of the number 72 in early myth and ritual. Graves tells his reader that 72 is always connected with the number 5, which reflects, among other things, the five Celtic dialects that he was investigating. Of course, 5 x 72= 360, 360 x 72= 25,920. Five is also the number of the planets known to the ancient world, that is, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus Mercury. Graves suggests a religious mystery bound up with two ancient Celtic 'Tree Alphabets' or cipher alphabets, which as genuine articles of Druidism were orally preserved and transmitted for centuries. He argues convincingly that the ancient poetry of Europe was ultimately based on what its composers believed to be magical principles, the rudiments of which formed a close religious secret for centuries. In time these were-garbled, discredited and forgotten. Among the many signs of the transmission of special numbers he points out that the aggregate number of letter strokes for the complete 22-letter Ogham alphabet that he is studying is 72 and that this number is the multiple of 9, 'the number of lunar wisdom'. . . . he then mentions something about 'the seventy day season during which Venus moves successively from. maximum eastern elongation 'to inferior conjunction and maximum western elongation'.13 Page 207 "...Feniusa Farsa, Graves equates this hero with Dionysus Farsa has 72 assistants who helped him master the 72 languages created at the confusion of Babel, the tower of which is said to be built of 9 different materials We are also reminded of the miraculous translation into Greek of the Five Books of Moses that was done by 72 scholars working for 72 days, Although the symbol for the Septuagint is LXX, legend, according to the fictional letter of Aristeas, records 72. The translation was done for Ptolemy Philadelphus (c.250 BC), by Hellenistic Jews, possibly from Alexandra.14 Graves did not know why this number was necessary, but he points out that he understands Frazer's Golden Bough to be a a book hinting that 'the secret involves the truth that the Christian dogma, and rituals, are the refinement of a great body of primitive beliefs, and that the only original element in Christianity- is the personality of Christ.15 Frances A. Yates, historian of Renaissance hermetisma tells, us the cabala had 72 angels through which the sephiroth (the powers of God) are believed to be approached, and further, she supplies the information that although the Cabala supplied a set of 48 conclusions purporting to confirm the Christian religion from the foundation of ancient wisdom, Pico Della Mirandola, a Renaissance magus, introduced instead 72, which were his 'own opinion' of the correct number. Yates writes, 'It is no accident there are seventy-two of Pico's Cabalist conclusions, for the conclusion shows that he knew something of the mystery of the Name of God with seventy-two letters.'16 In Hamlet's Mill de Santillarta adds the facts that 432,000 is the number of syllables in the Rig-Veda, which when multiplied by the soss (60) gives 25,920" (The reader is forgiven for a bit of laughter at this point) Thee Bible has not escaped his pursuit. A prominent Assyriologist of the last century insisted that the total of the years recounted Joseph Campbell discerns the secret in the date set for the coming of Patrick to Ireland. Myth-gives this date-as.- the interest- Whatever one may think-of some of these number coincidences, it becomes. difficult to escape the suspicion that many signs (number and otherwise) -indicate that early man observed the results.. of the movement of Precession . and that the-.transmission of this information was .considered of prime importance. 'With the awareness of the phenomenon, observers would certainly have tried for its measure, and such an endeavour would But one last word about mankind's romance with number coincidences.The antagonist in John Updike's novel, Roger's Version, is a computer hacker, who, convinced.,that scientific evidence of God's existence is accumulating, endeavours to prove it by feeding -all the available scientific information. into a comuter. In his search for God 'breaking, through', he has become fascinated by certain numbers that have continually been cropping up. He explains them excitedly as 'the terms of Creation': "...after a while I noticed that all over the sheet there seemed to hit these twenty-fours Jumping out at me. Two four; two,four.Planck time, for instance, divided by the radiation constant yields a figure near eight times ten again to the negative twenty-fourth, and the permittivity of free space, or electric constant, into the Bohr radiusekla almost exactly six times ten to the negative twenty-fourth. On positive side, the electromagnetic line-structure constant times Hubble radius - that is, the size of the universe as we now perceive it gives us something quite close to ten to the twenty-fourth, and the
strong-force constant times the charge on the proton produces two point four times ten to the negative eighteenth, for another I began to circle twenty-four wherever it appeared on the Printout here' - he held it up. his piece of striped and striped wallpaper, decorated / Page 209 /
with a number of scarlet circles - 'you can see it's more than random.'19 So much for any scorn directed to ancient man's fascination with number coincidences. That fascination is alive and well, Just a bit more incomprehensible"
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 Page 81 'If I forget thee, Oh Earth . . .' "He stared into the west, away from the blinding splendour of the sun - and there were the stars, as he had been told but never quite believed. He gazed at them for a long time, marvelling that anything could be so bright and yet so tiny. They were intense unscintillating, and suddenly he remembered a rhyme he had once read in one of his father's books: Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Well, he knew what the stars were. Whoever asked that question must have been very stupid. And what did they mean by 'twinkle'? You could see at a glance that all the stars shone with the same steady, unwavering light."
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR HOW I WONDER WHAT YOU ARE
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 FOREWORD "'Into the Comet' and 'The Nine Billion Names of God' both involve computers and the troubles they may cause us. While writing this preface, I had occasion to call upon my own HP 9100A computer, Hal Junior, to answer an interesting question. Looking at my records, I find that I have now written just about one hundred short stories. This volume contains eighteen of them: therefore, how many possible 18-story collections will I be able to put together? The answer as I am sure will be instantly obvious to you - is 100 x 99. . . x 84 x 83 divided by 18 x 17 x 16 ... x .2 x 1. This is an impressive number - Hal Junior tells me that it is approximately 20,772,733,124,605,000,000. Page 15 The Nine Billion Names of God
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 The Nine Billion Names of God Page 15 (number missing) Page16 'We have reason to believe,' continued the lama imperturbably, 'that all such names can be written with not more than nine letters in an alphabet we have devised.'
I = 9 9 = I R = 9 9 = R
OF T9ME AND STA9S A9thu9 C. Cla9ke,1972 Page 15 'Th9s 9s a sl9ghtly unusual 9equest,'sa9d D9 Wagne9, w9th what he hoped was commendable 9est9a9nt.' As fa9 as 9 know, 9t's the f99st t9me anyone's been asked to supply a T9betan monaste9y with an Automat9c Sequence Compute9. 9 don't w9sh to be 9nqu9s9t9ve, but 9 should ha9dly have thought that you9- ah - establ9shment had much use for such a mach9ne.Could you expla9n just what you 9ntend to do w9th 9t?' 'Gladly,' 9epl9ed the lama, 9eadjust9ng h9s s9lk 9obes and ca9efully putting away the sl9de 9ule he had been us9ng fo9 cu99ency conve9s9ons. 'You9 Ma9k V Compute9 can ca99y out any 9out9ne mathemat9cal ope9at9on 9nvolv9ng up to ten d9g9ts. Howeve9, for ou9 work we are 9nte9ested 9n lette9s, not numbe9s. As we w9sh you to mod9fy the output c9rcu9ts,the mach9ne w9ll be p99nt9ng wo9ds not columns of f9gu9es.' '9 dont qu9te unde9stand…' 'Th9s 9s a p9oject on wh9ch we have been work9ng fo9 the last th9ee centu99es - s9nce the lamase9y was founded, 9n fact.9t 9s somewhat al9en to you9 way of thought, so9 hope you w9ll l9sten with an open m9nd wh9le 9 expla9n 9t 'Natu9ally.' '9t 9s 9eally qu9te s9mple.We have been comp9l9ng a l9st wh9ch shall conta9n all the poss9ble names of God' '9 beg you9 pa9don?' / Page16 / 'We have 9eason to bel9eve' cont9nued the lama 9mpe9tu9bably, ' that all such names can be w99tten with not mo9e than n9ne lette9s 9n an alphabet we have dev9sed,' 'And you have been do9ng th9s for three centu99es? 'Yes: we expected9t would take us about f9fteen thousand years to complete the task.' 'Oh, Dr Wagne9 looked a l9ttle dazed. 'Now9 see why you wanted to h99e one of ou9 mach9nes. But what exactly9s the pu9pose of th9s p9oject ? 'The lama hes9tated fo9 a f9act9on of a second, and Wagne9 wonde9ed9f he had offended h9m.9f so the9e was no t9ace of annoyance9n the 9eply. 'Call9t 99tual, 9f you l9ke, but 9t's a fundamental pa9t of ou9 bel9ef. All the many names of the Sup9eme Be9ng - God , Jehova , Allah , and so on - they a9e only man made labels. The9e 9s a ph9losoph9cal p9oblem of some d9ff9culty he9e, wh9ch9 do not p9opose to d9scuss, but somewhe9e among all the poss9ble comb9nat9ons of lette9s that can occu9 a9e what one may call the 9eal names of God. By systemat9c pe9mutat9on of lette9s, we have been t9y9ng to l9st them all' 9 see. You've been sta9t9ng at AAAAAAA… and wo9k-9ng up to ZZZZZZZZ …' 'Exactly - though we use a spec9al alphabet of ou9 own. Mod9fy9ng the elect9omat9c typew99te9s to deal w9th th9s 9s of cou9se t99v9al. A 9athe9 mo9e 9nte9est9ng p9oblem 9s that of dev9s9ng su9table c99cu9ts to el9m9nate 9 9d9culous comb9nat9ons. Fo9 example, no lette9 must occu9 mo9e than th9ee t9mes 9n sucess9on.' 'Th9ee? Su9ely you mean two.' 'Th9ee 9s co99ect; 9 am af9a9d 9t would take too long to expla9n why , even 9f you unde9stood ou9 language.'/ Page 17 / '9'm su9e 9t would,' sa9d Wagne9 hast9ly. 'Go on.' 'Luck9ly, 9t w9ll be a s9mple matte9 to adapt you9 Automat9c Sequence Compute9 fo9 th9s wo9k, s9nce once 9t has been p9og9ammed p9ope9ly 9t w9ll pe9mute each lette9 9n tu9n and p99nt the 9esult. What would have taken us f9fteen thousand years 9t w9ll be able to do 9n a hund9ed days.' 'Dr Wagne9 was sca9cely consc9ous of the fa9nt sounds f9om the Manhatten st9eets fa9 below. He was 9n a d9ffe9ent wo9ld, a wo9ld of natu9al, not man-made mounta9ns. H9gh up 9n the99 9emote ae99es these monks had been pat9ently at wo9k gene9at9on afte9 gene9at9on, comp9l9ng the99 l9sts of mean9ngless wo9ds. Was the9e any l9m9ts to the foll9es of mank9nd ? St9ll, he must g9ve no h9nt of h9s 9nne9 thoughts. The custome9 was always 99ght…" Page 68 Into the Comet
Abacus - Wikipedia The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use in Europe, China and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system. The exact origin of the abacus is still unknown. The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use in Europe, China and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system. The exact origin of the abacus is still unknown. Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.
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SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and the Consequences:. Futurological Reflections on the Confrontation of Mankind with an. Extraterrestrial ... [This draft of a revised article is made available courtesy of Dr. Michael Schetsche for the
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setiathome.berkeley.edu Join the Search for Alien Life Message boards: SETI @ home Science: If someone found a signal would the public know ? Message Message 765818 Posted 10 Jun 2008 20:59:38 UTC I am just woundering if there was a signal found. how long wound it take for the public to be informed.
Message 765821 Posted 10 Jun 2008 21:06:26 UTC - in response to Message ID 765818. I am just woundering if there was a signal found. how long wound it take for the public to be informed. I hate to think that this information would be kept to a choosen few. I also think it is possable, that we have already found a signal and the general public will not be told for a very very long time. One more thing, If ET says hello... What are we going to say back? Despite the denials, we\'d not get to know for a few years I\'d guess. There\'s too many vested interests ranging from the church to governments, the military and big business. SETI has the Wow signal and at least one other signal that have ALL the hallmarks of being extra terrestial. But, there\'s always something that stops them saying so ie not confirmed by another source or, there\'s \'nothing in that particular part of the sky\' etc. Yes, Im a cynic now. Just returned to SETI but I know, as I suspect we all do, that we\'ll never get to find \'that\' signal.
Message 765857 Posted 10 Jun 2008 22:14:54 UTC To answer the main question: yes, the public will know once a signal is confirmed, and yes, they will know as soon as possible (days not years).
Message 765952 - Posted 11 Jun 2008 7:12:47 UTC - in response to Message ID 765912 btw - is your response to this based upom what you just (recently) Posted re: sys admin ;)) Actually.. no - though I see where you might have drawn a hopeful conclusion. I just always feel it\'s important to snuff out wrongful conspiracy theories concerning my day job. Things are never are as complicated/secretive/conspiratorial as people think (or hope in some cases) Matt BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude
Message 766101 - Posted 11 Jun 2008 7:12:47 UTC - in response to Message ID 765857 To answer the main question: yes, the public will know once a signal is confirmed, and yes, they will know as soon as possible (days not years). Matt How many unconfirmed signals found? Other than the WOW! one
Message 766204 - Posted 11 Jun 2008 15:07:35 UTC A couple of days ago I watched as the graphics catched or stumbled upon a big gaussian (not the same one as mentioned some place else). It did not come up in the numbers thereafter and I did unfortunately not take the number of the WU, sorry to say. Possibly (but very uncertainly) it may have been WU 06mr08ah.13828.82132.6.8.73._2_0 . In any case, that WU had a spike of 1.70, a gaussian of -8.01 (which is low and not the opposite as some other like to tell) and a pulse of 100996 (Yes!). No triplet. If it was that one, it could be interesting...ID: 766204
Message 766238 Posted 11 Jun 2008 16:41:52 UTC It would be nice if somewhere in the seti program when it knows positive that it has a signal that is states across the screen... \"CANDIDATE SIGNAL FOUND!\" like it did in the movie Contact. ;)
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Message 766299Posted 11 Jun 2008 18:49:23 UTC - in response to Message ID 766238. Last modified: 11 Jun 2008 18:58:49 UTC It would be nice if somewhere in the seti program when it knows positive that it has a signal that is states across the screen... \"CANDIDATE SIGNAL FOUND!\" like it did in the movie Contact. ;) The problem is, it doesn't know. Only humans can make that determination, and only after revisiting what they determine are *possible* candidates and scanning their locations again and again. How many unconfirmed signals found? Other than the WOW! one Zero No signal has ever been found which had the characteristics of the WOW! signal (ie; unconfirmed origin and not a natural source, either a glitch, interference, or the real thing) The closest that the SETI@Home team ever came was this one- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_source_SHGb02%2B14a Unlike WOW!, this is not something that appeared for an instant and could never be found again; this was found again, and presumably can still be detected by any radio telescope with sufficient capability. This is not an "unconfirmed signal" because it was determined not to be a signal at all. I'll admit, I'm not satisfied with the explanations as to why it was eventually determined not to be a candidate signal, and to my knowledge, no thorough public explanation has ever been given. It's not that I personally think it's a signal (I don't), I'd just like to know exactly why scientists are so sure it's not.
Message 767007- Posted 12 Jun 2008 19:44:03 UTC - in response to Message ID 766299. This is not an "unconfirmed signal" because it was determined not to be a signal at all. Thats my point! People argue over the very basic question whether a signal is a candidate. It doesnt fit the bill so lets dismiss it therefore we havent got an 'unconfirmed \ potential signal' to talk about. I'll admit, I'm not satisfied with the explanations as to why it was eventually determined not to be a candidate signal, and to my knowledge, no thorough public explanation has ever been given. It's not that I personally think it's a signal (I don't), I'd just like to know exactly why scientists are so sure it's not. Im not satisfied either but I think its highly unlikely you'll get scientists to agree. The signal appears to meet all the criteria for a 'candidate' but is dismissed because 'there's nothing in that part of the sky' and something to do with rotational period or something I mean were either of those two conditions in SETI's original conditions for a candidate? I dont think so.Im not satisfied either but I think its highly unlikely you'll get scientists to agree. The signal appears to meet all the criteria for a 'candidate' but is dismissed because 'there's nothing in that part of the sky' and something to do with rotational period or something. I mean were either of those two conditions in SETI's original conditions for a candidate? I dont think so. Message 767082- Posted 12 Jun 2008 22:12:21 UTC - in response to Message ID 76007. Last modified: 12 Jun 2008 22:18:08 UTC The signal appears to meet all the criteria for a 'candidate' but is dismissed because 'there's nothing in that part of the sky' and something to do with rotational period or something. The WOW! signal did apparently fit the criteria for artificial origin, but an Earthbound source or glitch in the system couldn't be ruled out since it could never be detected again or independently verified by any other telescope. As for the SETI@Home signal, while I think they know the criteria better than we do, I admit that I don't fully understand the explanation. Just because I don't understand it doesn't mean I don't agree with it. If the signal were as compelling as you seem to think it is, it wouldn't have been dismissed, certainly not by the SETI@Home team which has put years' worth of effort and investment into this project, and certainly not by other SETI teams, like the SETI Institute. I may not be happy that it turned out not be a signal from ET, and I may not be personally satisfied with the explanations, but I have to concede that they know more about the signal than I do and they know more about why it's not a good candidate than I do.
Message 767267- Posted 13 Jun 2008 4:53:21 UTC - in response to Message ID 765952. btw - is your response to this based upom what you just (recently) Posted re: sys admin ;)) Actually.. no - though I see where you might have drawn a hopeful conclusion. I just always feel it\'s important to snuff out wrongful conspiracy theories concerning my day job. Things are never are as complicated/secretive/conspiratorial as people think (or hope in some cases). - Matt Yeah, but everyone likes a god conspiracy theory :) Message 767919- Posted 14 Jun 2008 9:43:52 UTC - in response to Message ID 767082. The signal appears to meet all the criteria for a 'candidate' but is dismissed because 'there's nothing in that part of the sky' and something to do with rotational period or something. The WOW! signal did apparently fit the criteria for artificial origin, but an Earthbound source or glitch in the system couldn't be ruled out since it could never be detected again or independently verified by any other telescope. As for the SETI@Home signal, while I think they know the criteria better than we do, I admit that I don't fully understand the explanation. Just because I don't understand it doesn't mean I don't agree with it. If the signal were as compelling as you seem to think it is, it wouldn't have been dismissed, certainly not by the SETI@Home team which has put years' worth of effort and investment into this project, and certainly not by other SETI teams, like the SETI Institute. I may not be happy that it turned out not be a signal from ET, and I may not be personally satisfied with the explanations, but I have to concede that they know more about the signal than I do and they know more about why it's not a good candidate than I do. The "fear" is --I think--that the SETI results (all of them) are being stockpiled and may not be looked at until some very long time in the future and can only be verified by a steerable antenna some months or years later where the beamed signal (if there were an actual one) may well be beaming some other part of the universe--fanciful thoughts but probably needs some elucidation.
Message 768345- Posted 14 Jun 2008 23:30:03 UTC The government is flattered by those that think that they can pull off elaborate conspiracy theories, but the fact is that the government can hardly pull off delivering the mail and issuing passports. The only way for a conspiracy to survive is for there to be only two people that know about it -- and one of them is dead. ID: 768345
Message 770925- Posted 20 Jun 2008 20:37:40 UTC can anyone say where the Wow signal came from? IE where in the sky? ID: 770925 Message 772609 - Posted 23 Jun 2008 22:14:32 UTC - in response to Message ID770925. can anyone say where the Wow signal came from? IE where in the sky? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal "Gentlemen, there are only two types of naval vessels..........Submarines, and Targets" -- U.S. Navy Submarine SONAR Instructor.
Message 774487 - Posted 27 Jun 2008 22:56:00 UTC I've read a lot of that material regarding the WOW! signal. As far as I recall, all potential terrestial 'interference' can be discounted. There were no satellites in the way, there were no probes on their way to Mars of any of the other planets crossing the path, there were no planes in the way etc. The reason WOW! is discounted by the scientific community is mainly because it hasnt been detected since. I mean come on! If we can claim we may be the only intelligence in a galaxy of some 400 billion stars, meaning we're the result of a 400 billion to 1 shot, then, I dont see how the probabilty that Big Ear 'just got lucky' and picked up WOW! the one time. WOW! ticks more boxes than it doesnt. The only box it doesnt really tick is repeated attempts to find it again. The fact it was a 'one off' is just the same thing. ID: 774487
Message 774490 - Posted 27 Jun 2008 23:10:46 UTC - in response to Message ID 774487 Last modified: 27 Jun 2008 23:36:48 UTC I dont see how the probabilty that Big Ear 'just got lucky' and picked up WOW! the one time. That's exactly the point. The problem with WOW is that it only ticks one box, it fails every other. If WOW! is a real signal from ET, then it means ET knew the exact moment that beam 1 of the Big Ear would be pointing at that exact spot in the sky and would ONLY be signaling Earth for the exact 72 seconds it took for Beam 1 to account for Earth's rotation and then immediately turn the signal off as soon as Beam 1 stopped listening and switched to Beam 2. You have to realize; WOW wasn't picked up for an arbitrary length of time... It's not like the Big Ear *just so happened* to pick up the tail end of an ET transmission. It was picked up *only* for the exact the amount of time it takes for the first beam to pass through and scan one area of space as the Earth rotates. When the second beam passed through the same area 3 minutes later, it detected nothing. That's not a coincidence. The chances of it being a genuine detection are more than "400 billion to 1" because the first beam could've been scanning any other single location in the sky or the Big Ear's side of the Earth could've been facing the opposite direction. ET must have been clairvoyant and known exactly when the first beam was going to be scanning the patch of sky where their signal was, and turned it on and then shut it off again *just* so the first beam alone could detect it. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan The first test in science is verifiability; results have to be independently reproduced. You apparently don't put much stock in Occam's Razor... ;) ID: 774490
Message 774499- Posted 27 Jun 2008 23:31:50 UTC - in response to Message ID 774490. [quote]I dont see how the probabilty that Big Ear 'just got lucky' and picked up WOW! the one time. That's exactly the point. The probability that the Big Ear "just got lucky" and just so happened to hear ET for 72 seconds in only one of two synchronous beams and couldn't even detect it 3 minutes later with the second beam, and no other scan has ever picked it up again in 30 years is.....frankly, ridiculous. The problem with WOW is that it only ticks one box, it fails every other. No it ticks more than one box. If you read the reports, Big Ear wasnt pointed in the direction it received WOW! for most of the time before it was received. If WOW! is a real signal from ET, then it means ET knew the exact moment that beam 1 of the Big Ear would be pointing at that exact spot in the sky and would ONLY be signaling Earth for the exact 72 seconds it took for Beam 1 to account for Earth's rotation and then immediately turn the signal off as soon as Beam 1 stopped listening and switched to Beam 2. You state ET just switched the signal off at the right moment. This is a massive asumption. For all we know, they could just have pointed their transmitter in a general direction moved position, transmitted again, moved direction etc. The point overlooked is the transmission was very close to the 1420mhz frequency. All informed scientists tell us this is a great frequency to listen to for the 'marker transmission,' the indication that someone is saying 'hello, we're here!' and not in itself a 'message.'
Message 774504 - Posted 27 Jun 2008 23:44:57 UTC - in response to Message ID 774499. Last modified: 27 Jun 2008 23:47:20 UTC No it ticks more than one box. If you read the reports, Big Ear wasnt pointed in the direction it received WOW! for most of the time before it was received. It only detected WOW when beam 1 scanned the area of the sky it passed through for 72 seconds; the second beam was pointed in the same direction 3 minutes later and detected nothing. You state ET just switched the signal off at the right moment. This is a massive asumption. For all we know, they could just have pointed their transmitter in a general direction moved position, transmitted again, moved direction etc. The point overlooked is the transmission was very close to the 1420mhz frequency. All informed scientists tell us this is a great frequency to listen to for the 'marker transmission,' the indication that someone is saying 'hello, we're here!' and not in itself a 'message.' Hehehe...that's a massive assumption on your part. - I said ET must have switched the signal off after Beam 1 passed through the patch of sky where WOW was detected. - You say ET might have pointed their transmitter in a different direction after Beam 1 passed through. Ummmmm....if WOW is really a signal from ET, then aren't both of those assumptions just as equally likely to be true, and aren't they both equally "massive"? :P
Message 774892 - Posted 28 Jun 2008 20:29:35 UTC - in response to Message ID 774515 i believe that iT was said - a long time ago - that the ANSWER to that particular question is NO - in other words - 'THEY would NOT be told'. Well, whoever said that was WRONG Matt Lebofsky just GAVE THE ANSWER in this thread. There's no reason not to take him or anyone else working on SETI at their word.
Message 776020 - Posted 30 Jun 2008 20:52:30 UTC - in response to Message ID 775008. Last modified: 30 Jun 2008 20:53:48 UTC . . . ever heard of Majestic 12 ? Oh lordy.... Yeah, I heard of Majestic 12....in the video game Deus Ex... LOL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex How in the heck would the government even KNOW about it before the entire SETI and astronomy community do ?? Or before the press, for that matter ??? And how could they silence all of these people, threaten with death?? Kidnap them??
Message 776095 - Posted 1 Jul 2008 0:03:10 UTC There is no conspiracy--but them paranoids is after us !! DADDIO ID: 776095
Message 776457 - Posted 1 Jul 2008 14:04:39 UTC - in response to Message 776095. There is no conspiracy--but them paranoids is after us !! DADDIO ID
Message 776627 - Posted 1 Jul 2008 21:44:31 UTC - in response to Message ID 774504. No it ticks more than one box. If you read the reports, Big Ear wasnt pointed in the direction it received WOW! for most of the time before it was received. It only detected WOW when beam 1 scanned the area of the sky it passed through for 72 seconds; the second beam was pointed in the same direction 3 minutes later and detected nothing. You state ET just switched the signal off at the right moment. This is a massive asumption. For all we know, they could just have pointed their transmitter in a general direction moved position, transmitted again, moved direction etc. The point overlooked is the transmission was very close to the 1420mhz frequency. All informed scientists tell us this is a great frequency to listen to for the 'marker transmission,' the indication that someone is saying 'hello, we're here!' and not in itself a 'message.' Hehehe...that's a massive assumption on your part. If WOW is genuine, then one of those possibilities has to be the case, and both of them seem to require a clairvoyant knowledge of how long it would take for the first beam to pass through a patch of sky and account for the Earth's rotation. Message 777228 - Posted 2 Jul 2008 17:05:34 UTC - in response to Message ID 776627. You originally said, WOW! only ticked one box. Let's review how many boxes WOW! actually does tick Nearly all of the scientific community states that the ideal frequency to look for a signal would be 1420mhz. This is where WOW! was found. First tick in the box. You're right, this *IS* a tick in the box; a parameter invented by the humans who assigned it as a box to tick in the first place (though not without good reason). That in itself doesn't necessarily make it more likely to be an ETI signal than not, however. ...and "nearly all in the scientific community" is an extreme exaggeration. Even among SETI scientists, there is wide disagreement over whether radio is "ideal" to listen to for ETI in the first place. 1420mhz is universally banned for terrestrial transmission ergo, WOW! could not have been terrestial in origin. Second tick in the box. Not unless the "transmission" was in fact a glitch in the Big Ear in the first place; in that case it would have very much been terrestrial in origin. The direction of WOW! was not that of one of the planets in the solar system. Third tick in the box. None of those are really "ticks in the box" if the WOW! Signal since none of those objects were in the direction of the second beam three minutes later either, and a glitch could also be described as an unnatural source for the narrow band detection. WOW! signal intensity and duration matched that expected due to the Earth's rotation. Six ticks in the box. ...but failed the expected confirmation by the second beam, suggesting that there was really nothing extraterrestrial being detected in the first place. I could go on but I think my point is proven. Only to those who persist in the blind faith notion that WOW! was a significant extraterrestrial detection or disavow alternative explanations. It is correct Big Ear only picked up ONE instance of the signal however, its wrong to assume the sender 'switched off' the signal at just the right time. It could be purely co incidental if the signal beam was transmitted for a specific duration then transmitted in a totally different direction. Again, why is it "wrong" to assume that the sender switched off the signal after it was detected by the first beam but right for you to assume that the sender switched the signal's direction after it was detected by the first beam???
The possibility that a genuine ETI signal signal being beamed from light years away would be picked up by the first beam for 72 seconds and not by the second 3 minutes later is so vastly remote, that statistically speaking, Occam's Razor would dictate that the sender knew when the first beam was no longer detecting it. ...then again, Occam's Razor also suggests it wasn't an ETI signal. I cannot seriously take your statement that searching at 1420mhz is a massive assumption on our part.
Message 777474 - Posted 2 Jul 2008 21:30:52 UTC - in response to Message ID 777228. You originally said, WOW! only ticked one box. Let's review how many boxes WOW! actually does tick You're right, this *IS* a tick in the box; a parameter invented by the humans who assigned it as a box to tick in the first place (though not without good reason). That in itself doesn't necessarily make it more likely to be an ETI signal than not, however. ...and "nearly all in the scientific community" is an extreme exaggeration. Even among SETI scientists, there is wide disagreement over whether radio is "ideal" to listen to for ETI in the first place. 1420mhz is universally banned for terrestrial transmission ergo, WOW! could not have been terrestial in origin. Second tick in the box.Not unless the "transmission" was in fact a glitch in the Big Ear in the first place; in that case it would have very much been terrestrial in origin. The direction of WOW! was not that of one of the planets in the solar system. Third tick in the box. None of those are really "ticks in the box" if the WOW! Signal since none of those objects were in the direction of the second beam three minutes later either, and a glitch could also be described as an unnatural source for the narrow band detection. WOW! signal intensity and duration matched that expected due to the Earth's rotation. Six ticks in the box. ...but failed the expected confirmation by the second beam, suggesting that there was really nothing extraterrestrial being detected in the first place. I could go on but I think my point is proven. Only to those who persist in the blind faith notion that WOW! was a significant extraterrestrial detection or disavow alternative explanations. It is correct Big Ear only picked up ONE instance of the signal however, its wrong to assume the sender 'switched off' the signal at just the right time. It could be purely co incidental if the signal beam was transmitted for a specific duration then transmitted in a totally different direction. Again, why is it "wrong" to assume that the sender switched off the signal after it was detected by the first beam but right for you to assume that the sender switched the signal's direction after it was detected by the first beam??? I'm not understanding that. Either Maybe I'm stupid, but if you believe that it was a genuine ETI signal, then aren't both possibilities equally likely and equally as much of a coincidence? The sender doesnt even need to know (or indeed care) about the rotational speed of Earth. The possibility that a genuine ETI signal signal being beamed from light years away would be picked up by the first beam for 72 seconds and not by the second 3 minutes later is so vastly remote, that statistically speaking, Occam's Razor would dictate that the sender knew when the first beam was no longer detecting it. ...then again, Occam's Razor also suggests it wasn't an ETI signal. I cannot seriously take your statement that searching at 1420mhz is a massive assumption on our part. My premise is not that WOW! was indisputably a signal from another civilisation beyond our solar system but, one that a probably signal has been debunked when it satisfies many of the criteria SETI and the scientific community have set out for determining a signal IS from an extra terrestial civilisation. From all the papers I've read, even Erhman now seems to suggest WOW! was not a glitch and ticked more boxes than it didnt. What Im saying is, definitely discounting WOW! is wrong. It should be classed as unproven but potentially a viable signal.
Message 777961 - Posted 3 Jul 2008 14:31:49 UTC - in response Message ID 77474 Last modified: 3 Jul 2008 14:32:31 UTC You quoted Sagan previously regarding extraordinary claims needing extraordinary evidence yet, you mention the spectre of life so alien we possibly could not comprehend it as such. We may as well argue that rock on the beach nearby is life but 'not as we know it.' Not sure I follow you there... What Im saying is, definitely discounting WOW! is wrong. It should be classed as unproven but potentially a viable signal. Here's the thing:
Message 780281- Posted 7 Jul 2008 15:54:28 UTC Hello all This post is a very very good read. I see now how people have different ideas on the known universe. Is the WOW signal truely a WOW or not? We may never know...ID: 780281
Message 780340 - Posted 7 Jul 2008 19:23:37 UTC - in response to Message ID 780281. Last modified: 7 Jul 2008 19:24:34 UTC the earth has been here for millions of years. (this is very short time) The Earth has been here for about ~ 4.6 billion years. When the WOW signal was found, how long was it before the public was informed? I don't think the public was ever officially "informed" since the scientists at the Big Ear felt there was nothing to "inform" them about; there was no confirmation, hence, nothing to announce. So there were never any public press conferences on "WOW!" Next question is that, every signal that comes from earth has some kind of data in it. It is very hard for me to take in that the WOW signal cant be traced back to some kind of transmition. If the signal came from earth, it would be very easy to know what it was and where it came from. Nope. http://www.bigear.org/6equj5.htm The wow signal must have came from deep space. Many SETI scientists disagree with you. Also, "must" is a strong word. Like I said, it's possible. Also there would be some kind of data in the WOW signal. Since Big Ear only recorded the intensity of the radio waves, it did not record any data that might have been encoded on the signal. Of course, *IF* any data was encoded on the signal in the first place; there's no evidence of that. I know there is alot of back ground noise that could make a signal Just to be clear and fair, to my knowledge there is no known natural background noise in interstellar space capable of producing an emission similar to WOW! But most signals that have came from humans has some kind of data. It is safe to say that any ET that can produce a signal that would be dected from earth would be far more advance than us, and would put some kind of data in the signal also. I agree that ET would likely encode data in any emission we detected. Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing if any data was encoded in WOW!
Message 780360- Posted 7 Jul 2008 20:48:46 UTC I disagree with a number of Taurus' points.
Message 780376 - Posted 7 Jul 2008 21:34:25 UTC Last modified: 7 Jul 2008 21:35:33 UTC Centenary writes: "Good against remotes is one thing. Good against the living, that's something else." (Han Solo) ID: 780376
Message 780384 - Posted 7 Jul 2008 21:55:39 UTC Thank you for your views centenary , Taurus. I did not know that there was not a recording of the actual signal. It seems to me that there would be some kind of recording of this signal somewhere. ( i know if i was working there that would be the first thing I would do is record it )
Message 780431 - Posted 7 Jul 2008 23:04:33 UTC - in response to Message ID 780360. I disagree with a number of Taurus' points. The WOW! signal was not immediately 'detected' by the Big Ear team. Such was the state of SETI signal searching at the time, Ehman didnt even get around to reading the data output from Big Ear until sometime afterwards. In fact, he states it was a couple of days later that he found the signal data. First of all, for your information, the Big Ear's detection of the WOW! Signal was discovered by Jerry Ehman the same night it was detected. He circled the detected emission and wrote "WOW!" that very night. The Big Ear's project director saw the detection report the next morning. Second of all, I absolutely never said it was "immediately detected" by the Big Ear team anyway: My posts are above for all to see. ...and I'm VERY well aware of how SETI signal searching currently works. You say "at the time" which implies that it works differently today; it doesn't. Ironically, unlike the radio detection work being done at the Big Ear, whether it's the work of the SETI@Home team or the SETI Institute, any potential signal that is detected won't be "seen" by the team until well after the detection has actually occurred. Even the work units being processed on the distributed computing network here represent "old" data, not detections in real-time. Its true other scientists attempted to re find WOW! but the EXACT position that the signal came from is not certain. Therefore, trying to find the signal again is like searching for the proverbial needle. That's a gross exaggeration and a misunderstanding on your part. Its also interesting to note that WOW! is mainly talked about to debunk it coming from a non terrestial source. If the signal had of been re detected, it would be interesting to know IF as much effort would have been put into letting the public know it WAS a signal rather than it not being. We've already been over this. If you think radio astronomers and SETI scientists would conspire to keep a confirmed signal like WOW! from the public, then you might as well be wearing a tin-foil hat. Next point is Taurus states many SETI scientist disagree WOW! came from deep space. Really! Let's hear their arguments then because I havent seen any. ALL the indications are the signal came from outside our solar system (assuming it wasnt a glitch, of course and if it was a glitch, statistically, that 'glitch should have been repeated but it never did!) You're stating patent falsehoods without even doing some basic online searching yourself. With all due respect, that's lazy and sloppy on your part. "Something suggests it was an Earth-bound signal that simply got reflected off a piece of space debris." - Jerry Ehman, 1994 "I can speculate, too, but there's nothing to back it up," "Yeah, the wow signal. Well, it's pretty wow-y. But it doesn't seem to have been ET. Lots of people have gone back and they even, they immediately had a following beam on the sky that swept through that same patch of the heavens, just shortly after they got that signal, and didn't see it. And people have gone back there looking, you know, with more sensitivity, more frequencies, and nobody's ever found it again. So it's not good enough. It's like seeing a ghost in your basement once. It's not enough to believe in ghosts. If you see them every time you look, now that's okay, you might believe then. So it was undoubtedly some sort of interference." http://www.bigear.org/Wow30th/wow30th.htm#speculations He now personally places low probability in every alternative explanation for WOW! other than ETI. As I said, the reasons for his change of heart are difficult to ascertain. Whilst I conceed there is no definite proof that WOW! was from an ET civilisation, there is sufficient evidence to suggest it possibly was. The problem is, scientific proof doesn't work that way. For example, the SETI Institute's multi-million dollar Allen Telescope Array is the most expensive and powerful devoted SETI tool in the world. SETI astronomers have devised targeted lists of locations which the ATA will scan....
Message 780506 - Posted 8 Jul 2008 1:25:55 UTC Cyrax wrote: "Also, I feel the earth is like a becon. We are sending out lots more data into deep space then there are people looking for ET's signal." Actually, in terms of radio emissions, earth is more like a kerosene lamp in thick fog than a beacon. Many of the radio signals we generate never make it out of our atmosphere. They're reflected back by the ionosphere. Most of those that do are very weak, and fade very quickly into the cosmic noise. Nothing we transmit could probably be detected by anyone, no matter how advanced, at a distance of more than a few lightyears. To make things more difficult, there are at least two other more powerful radio sources here, the sun and Jupiter. If a civilization with radio habits just like ours existed in the Tau Ceti system, 12 light years away, or the Epsilon Erandi system at 10 lightyears, we probably wouldn't ever be able to hear them unless they decided to send a very powerful signal directly at us, and kept sending for a long time. We'd never be able to watch their TV programs or listen to their Top 40 radio. Those signals would simply be lost in the cosmic noise. "Good against remotes is one thing. Good against the living, that's something else." (Han Solo) ID: 780506
Message 780755 - Posted 8 Jul 2008 15:25:29 UTC Hello Sparrow, I agree with everything you stated. The only problem is that, your statment may have been true in the 1950s , 1960s , 1970s. Our level of technology has increased 1000 times sence then. The power of most transmitters are powerful enough to go very very far into space. Even alot of earth's satellites are powerful enough to transmit very very deep into space and they are already beyond our atmosphere. You are very correct that TV and Raido may not go far into space. This is true if the broadcast is from ground level. But we do have other broadcast that are very strong that go into space every day that are not ground base. Also it is true that our brodcast would get weaker the further it went into deep space and the background noise may over come any brodcast we send, but there is data in all our brodcast. If ET is smart, they would be looking for very very weak signals that may have data or structure. And we should be doing the same. thankyou for the wounderful information, I love to here all view points and consider all. ID: 780755
Message781005 - Posted 9 Jul 2008 2:16:55 UTC - in response to Message ID 780755. You are very correct that TV and Raido may not go far into space. This is true if the broadcast is from ground level. But we do have other broadcast that are very strong that go into space every day that are not ground base. The problem with those satellites is that they're not broadcasting into deep space, their signals are aimed directly down below towards Earth; this is different than what the transmitting towers of the 20th century did when they broadcast omnidirectional radio signals around the globe.
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27 Aug 2007 ... Frank Drake sat down with Astrobiology Magazine’s Leslie Mullen to .... The price of SETI is not a lot, only a few million dollars a year. . 27 Aug 2007 ... at Cornell University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. ... Frank Drake sat down with Astrobiology Magazine’s Leslie Mullen ...
The Man to Contact
"In the field of astrobiology, few people have had a bigger influence than Frank Drake. In 1960, he conducted the first radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He formulated the “Drake Equation,” which set the standard for the search for alien life in our galaxy, providing scientific rigor to a field of inquiry that previously had been derided as pure science fiction.
Drake, along with Carl Sagan, designed plaques that were carried on the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft. The Pioneer plaques depicted symbolic messages for any aliens the spacecraft might encounter as they travel outside our solar system. Drake also worked with Sagan on theVoyager Golden Record. Containing sounds and images of life on Earth, the record was sent on both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft." "AM: Listening at the right time, at the right star that has a planet with life at the same point of evolution as us – the chance of that seems so small. Extracts posted 27/8/08
DAILY MAIL Thursday, September 11, 2008 Pages 12/13 "BANG! Day the/world didn't end" Page 12 'Secrets of the universe' machine is turned on. . . but we're till here Michael Hanlon Science Editor Page 12/13 "Suffering superlatives/or how Marr got his particles all shook up" Page 13 "A few of them said 'wow! from time to time but there was nothing much to see or hear" Quentin Letts
THE CITIZEN WAKEFIELD City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council Issue 26 July/August 2006 THE PAPER FOR THE DISTRICT'S RESIDENTS Page 11 "WOW What's On in Wakefield District" "DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS"
FIRST CONTACT THE SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE Edited by Ben Nova and Byron Preiss 1990 Page 256 "Two types of unexplained signals were detected during this search. The first kind is quite rare, with the best example being the 'Wow' signal found in 1977. This /Page 257/ name was unintenionally applied from Jerry Ehman's comments in the margin of the computer printout when he noticed the signal. The signal was unmistakably strong and had all the characteristics of an extra-terrestrial signal." "We searched in the direction of the 'Wow!' signal hundreds of times after its discovery and over a wide frequency range. We never found the signal again. "...the 'Wow signal was received only once..." "What was the wow signal? Probably we will never know."
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OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 The Sentinel "I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long."
I AM HERE HERE AM I
E-mail 09 September 2008 21:00 THE LIGHT IS RISING RISING IS THE LIGHT
9/9/2008 CITIZENS OF PLANET EARTH HURRAH FOR RAH FOR RAH HURRAH PEACE LOVE AND LIGHT UNTO ALL SENTIENT BEINGS
LIFE OUT THERE Michael White1998 SIGNALS FROM BEYOND 5 Page 99/100 Page 102 "So far the most important find was a signal detected at the Ohio University 'Big Ear' radio telescope in August 1977. Known by SETI researchers and enthusiasts as the 'Wow' signal, after the monoyllabic exclamation written on the computer print-out by an astonished astronomer at the station, it lasted exactly thirty-seven seconds and appears to have come from the direction of Sagittarius. Although, most strikingly, the signal was a narrow-band signal precisely at the hydrogen frequency of 1420 MHz, it has not been detected even a second time, in Sagittarius or anywhere else. So, what of the future? Is the continuing search for intelligent life in the Universe a total waste of money, as its opponents insist, or are we perhaps on the threshold of a great discovery?
"LIFE OUT THERE"
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LIFE OUT THERE Michael White 1998 THE TRUTH OF AND SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL LIFE SIGNALS FROM BEYOND Page 196 INDEPENDENCE DAY
LIFE OUT THERE Michael White1998 SIGNALS FROM BEYOND 5 Page 99/100 Page 102 "So far the most important find was a signal detected at the Ohio University 'Big Ear' radio telescope in August 1977. Known by SETI researchers and enthusiasts as the 'Wow' signal, after the monoyllabic exclamation written on the computer print-out by an astonished astronomer at the station, it lasted exactly thirty-seven seconds and appears to have come from the direction of Sagittarius. Although, most strikingly, the signal was a narrow-band signal precisely at the hydrogen frequency of 1420 MHz, it has not been detected even a second time, in Sagittarius or anywhere else."
MAN AND THE STARS CONTACT AND COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER INTELLIGENCE Duncan Lunan 1974 THE MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS FROM OUTER SPACE Page 323 DID ANYONE FOLLOW IT UP 13 "Oh whistle and i'll come tae you my lad . . ." Page 835 IS ANYONE HERE NOW 14
"Arthur Clarke said we must learn to live with our/ Page 836 / selves, to meet others properly.14 Chris Boyce said here, in Chapter 8, that we should set our own house:" in order, in our relations with one another and with other life on Earth. Robert Burns said: "Oh wad some po'er the giftie gie us, to see oorsels as ithers see us. . . ." It's time we took some action on that basis; indeed, it always has been." "Oh wad some po'er the giftie gie us, to see oorsels as ithers see us. . . ."
DAILY MAIL Friday, August 15, 2008 Ephraim Hardcastle Page 19 "Oh, wad some power the gift to gie us/ To see oursels as others see us"
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QUO VADIS (WHITHER GOEST THOU?) By Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 Page 9 "QUO VADIS ?" Page 90 "QUO VADIS ?" Page 99 "QUO VADIS ?" "GOD" "GOD" "GOD" "GOD" "GOD" Page 108 "QUO VADIS ?"
QUO VADIS Ristorante Italiano Smythe Street WAKEFIELDYORKSHIRE
SIGNALS WHAT SIGNALS SEARCH ME I HAVE SEARCHED ALWAYS SEARCHED HAVE I
SIGNALS OF THAT THAT THAT HOLY ISISISIS
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THAT I THAT ME THAT EGO THAT CONSCIENCE THAT YOU THAT ISISIS HOLY ISISIS THAT ISISIS DIVINE THOUGHT THOUGHT DIVINE ISISIS YOU ARE DIVINE CREATORS CREATORS DIVINE ARE YOU ISISIS EVERYTHING EVERYTHING ISISIS ISISIS LIFE EVERLASTING EVERLASTING LIFE ISISIS THEREFORE THOU ART EVERLASTING LIFE LIFE EVERLASTING ART THOU THEREFORE
EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take Ill be watching you Ill be watching you Ill be watching you I look around but its you I cant replace I feel so cold and I long for your embrace I keep crying baby, baby, please... Ill be watching you Ill be watching you Ill be watching you Ill be watching you Ill be watching you Ill be watching you
Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take Ill be watching you Every single day Every word you say ... www.lyricsfreak.com/p/police/every+breath+you+take
THE THOUGHT AZIN OUGHT OF THE OUGHT AZIN THOUGHT
DOES GOD PLAY DICE THE NEW MATHEMATICS OF CHAOS Ian Stewart 1989 Page 1 PROLOGUE CLOCKWORK OR CHAOS? "YOU BELIEVE IN A GOD WHO PLAYS DICE, AND I IN COMPLETE LAW AND ORDER." Albert Einstein, Letter to Max Born
I THAT AM HERE HAVE HERE A MESSAGE HEARKEN O NAMUH THE HE AZIN SHE THAT IS THEE THAT IS ME I AM THE OPPOSITE OF THE OPPOSITE I AM THE OPPOSITE OF OPPOSITE IS THE AM I ALWAYS AM BEYOND THE VEIL ANOTHER VEIL AND THEN A VEIL BEYOND
HAVE I A SENSE OF HUMOUR I HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR
I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU Jim Reeves 1923 - 1964 I can't stop loving you www.lyricmusic.us/index.php?search=songid&id
ONE LOVE One Love appears on the album One Love Peace Concert (Bob Marley) One Love, One Heart Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One Love) One Love, One Heart Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One Love) Sayin' One Love, One Heart Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
"One Love/People Get Ready" is a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers from their 1977 album Exodus and it has also been released on many of his compilation albums. It has become one of the most influential and known reggae songs ever. The song expressed Bob's beliefs of global unity. Marley was born in the small village of Nine Mile in the Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica.
I THAT AM I DIVINE LOVE LOVE DIVINE I I DEFINE LOVE LOVE DEFINE I I EVOLVE LOVE LOVE EVOLVE I
I ME YOU AND GOD DONT YOU JUST LOVE GOD THAT GOD THAT HAS THE CREATORS SENSITIVITY AND WIT TO CALL ITSELF GODSDOG BACKWARD
THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS
Hair Soundtrack Lyrics, Lyrics - Aquarius Lyrics. ... The age of Aquarius Aquarius!Aquarius! Harmony and understanding
When the moon is in the Seventh House
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 Page 81 If I forget Thee, Oh Earth "He stared into the west, away from the blinding splendour of the sun - and there were the stars, as he had been told but had never quite believed. He gazed at them for a long time marvelling that anything could be so bright and yet so tiny. They were intense unscintillating points, and suddenly he remembered a rhyme he had once read in one of his father's books: Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday October 7, 2008 Page 23 ".........nursery rhymes and songs such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, December 2,008 Rocking the cradle Fay Schlesinger "...It seems the sound of the bedtime lullaby is changing fast. Traditional songs such as Rock A Bye Baby and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star are no longer soothing babies to sleep."
Good Morning Starshine Singing a song Sing the song song the sing Let the sunshine
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in Let the sunshine
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The sunshine in Let the sunshine
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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical 1967 is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot
DAILY MAIL Monday, October 6, 2008 Jonathan Cainer Page 42 "FIRST CONTACT" "THE ALIENS COULD HARDLY HAVE CHOSEN A MORE AUSPICIOUS TIME TO HAVE TURNED UP"
ISISIS THE PATH OF PTAH EVOLVE LOVE LOVE EVOLVE ISISIS DIVINE LOVE GODS LOVE DIVINE ISISIS DIVINE LOVE GODS LOVE DIVINE ISISIS REAL REALITY REVEALED REVEALED REAL REALITY
A MYSTERIOUS VOICE IN THE NIGHT LOVE EVOLVE EVOLVE LOVE
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Signaling theory is useful for describing behavior when two parties (individuals or organizations) have access to different information. Typically, one party, the sender, must choose whether and how to communicate (or signal) that information, and the other party, the receiver, must choose how to interpret the signal. In contract theory, signalling (or signaling; see spelling differences) is the idea that one party (termed the agent) credibly conveys some information about itself to another party (the principal
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AS ABOVE SO BELOW THIS IS THE SEEN OF THE SCENE UNSEEN THE UNSEEN SCENE OF THE SCENE UNSEEN THIS IS THE SEEN AS BELOW SO ABOVE Martin Rees 1999 A proton is 1,836 times heavier than an electron, and the number 1,836 would have the same connotations to any 'intelligence' "
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THE GREAT PYRAMID ITS DIVINE MESSAGE AN ORIGINAL CO-ORDINATION OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES D. Davidson and H. Aldersmith 1925 Page 279 "The resulting length for the Grand Gallery roof is 1836 P an important Pyramid dimension dealt with later."
HARMONIC 288 Bruce Cathie 1977 EIGHT THE MEASURE OF LIGHT : I Page 95 Page 95/97
THE TUTANKHAMUN PROPHECIES Maurice Cotterell 1999 Page194 Anderson's Constitutions of the Freemasons (In3) comments: Page 190 "The holy number of sun-worshippers is 9, the highest number that can be reached before becoming one (10) with the creator. This is why Tutankhamun was entombed in nine layers of coffin. This is why the pyramid skirts of the two statues, guarding the entrance to the Burial Chamber, were triangular (base 3), when the all-seeing eye-skirt of Mereruka contained a pyramid skirt with a base of four sides. The message concealed here is that the 3 should be squared, which equals 9. Freemasons" for reasons we shall see, are said to be 'on the square'."
THE BIOLOGY OF DEATH Lyall Watson 1974 Page 49 "AS long ago as 1836, in a Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, this was said: Individuals who are apparently destroyed in a sudden manner, by certain wounds, diseases , or even decapitation are not really dead, but are only in conditions incompatible with the persistence life."
THE JUPITER EFFECT John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann 1977 Page 122 : "Seventeen 'major historical earthquakes' are referred to in the report all of which occurred since
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI Paramahansa Yogananda 1946 Book cover comments "I am grateful to you for granting me some insight into this fascinating world." - Thomas Mann" "As an eye witness recountal of the extraordinary lives and powers of modern Hindu saints, the book has importance both timely and timeless." - W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Orientalist Page 275 "In the gigantic concepts of Einstein, the velocity of light - 1863 miles per second - dominates the whole theory of relativity" 1863 - 1836
GODS OF THE DAWN THE MESSAGE OF THE PYRAMIDS AND THE TRUE STARGATE MYSTERY Peter Lemesurier 1997 Page 118 "With the entry into the Grand Gallery, all kinds of extraordinary things now start to happen"
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FRATERNAL GREETINGS OF PEACE LOVE AND LIGHT UNTO ALL SENTIENT BEINGS
On Nature (Peri Physeos) On Nature (Peri Physeos) by Parmenides of Elea (c. 475 B.C.)
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PREHISTORIC GERM WARFARE Is Mankind an Alien Experiment? Robyn Collins 1980 CHAPTER 6 The Egyptian Connection Page 79 In F. H. Brooksbank's fascinating 1924 book Legends of Ancient Egypt: Stories of Egyptian Gods and Heroes, the author outlines an extraordinary legend relating to the arrival of the ancient Egyptian deities Isis and Osiris. Brooksbank remarked that the first to greet Isis and Osiris was an Egyptian astronemer and Holy Man who said 'Long have I known of your coming, but never did I think that I should be the first to greet you here on Earth'. Thereupon in reply, Osiris said:' ...I charge thee straightly to tell no man what thou knowest, whence we came or why'.
LONG HAVE I KNOWN OF YOUR COMING, BUT NEVER DID I THINK THAT I SHOULD BE THE FIRST TO GREET YOU HERE ON EARTH'. Thereupon in reply, Osiris said: I CHARGE THEE STRAIGHTLY TO TELL NO MAN WHAT THOU KNOWEST, WHENCE WE CAME OR WHY'.
PREHISTORIC GERM WARFARE Is Mankind an Alien Experiment? Robyn Collins 1980 CHAPTER 6 The Egyptian Connection Page 79 In F. H. Brooksbank's fascinating 1924 book Legends of Ancient Egypt: Stories of Egyptian Gods and Heroes, the author outlines an extraordinary legend relating to the arrival of the ancient Egyptian deities Isis and Osiris. Brooksbank remarked that the first to greet Isis and Osiris was an Egyptian astronemer and Holy Man who said 'Long have I known of your coming, but never did I think that I should be the first to greet you here on Earth'. Thereupon in reply, Osiris said:' ...I charge thee straightly to tell no man what thou knowest, whence we came or why' LONG HAVE I KNOWN OF YOUR COMING, BUT NEVER DID I THINK THAT I SHOULD BE THE FIRST TO GREET YOU HERE ON EARTH'.
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PREHISTORIC GERM WARFARE Is Mankind an Alien Experiment? Robyn Collins 1980 CHAPTER 6 The Egyptian Connection Page 79 In F. H. Brooksbank's fascinating 1924 book Legends of Ancient Egypt: Stories of Egyptian Gods and Heroes, the author outlines an extraordinary legend relating to the arrival of the ancient Egyptian deities Isis and Osiris. Brooksbank remarked that the first to greet Isis and Osiris was an Egyptian astronemer and Holy Man who said 'Long have I known of your coming, but never did I think that I should be the first to greet you here on Earth'. Thereupon in reply, Osiris said:' ...I charge thee straightly to tell no man what thou knowest, whence we came or why'. Thereupon in reply, Osiris said: I CHARGE THEE STRAIGHTLY TO TELL NO MAN WHAT THOU KNOWEST, WHENCE WE CAME OR WHY'.
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PREHISTORIC GERM WARFARE Is Mankind an Alien Experiment? Robyn Collins 1980 CHAPTER 6 The Egyptian Connection Page 79 In F. H. Brooksbank's fascinating 1924 book Legends of Ancient Egypt: Stories of Egyptian Gods and Heroes, the author outlines an extraordinary legend relating to the arrival of the ancient Egyptian deities Isis and Osiris. Brooksbank remarked that the first to greet Isis and Osiris was an Egyptian astronemer and Holy Man who said 'Long have I known of your coming, but never did I think that I should be the first to greet you here on Earth'. Thereupon in reply, Osiris said:' ...I charge thee straightly to tell no man what thou knowest, whence we came or why'.
LONG HAVE I KNOWN OF YOUR COMING, BUT NEVER DID I THINK THAT I SHOULD BE THE FIRST TO GREET YOU HERE ON EARTH'. Thereupon in reply, Osiris said: I CHARGE THEE STRAIGHTLY TO TELL NO MAN WHAT THOU KNOWEST, WHENCE WE CAME OR WHY'.
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Higgs boson - Wikipedia The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics. First suspected to exist in the 1960s, it is the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, a fundamental field of crucial importance to particle physics theory. Unlike other known fields such as the electromagnetic field, it has a non-zero constant ... Higgs boson The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics. First suspected to exist in the 1960s, it is the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, a fundamental field of crucial importance to particle physics theory. Wikipedia Composition: Elementary particle Classification: Boson Symbol: H° Mass: 125.09±0.21 (stat.)±0.11 (syst.) GeV/c² (CMS+ATLAS) Electric charge: 0 e Discovered: Large Hadron Collider (2011–2013) Mean lifetime: 1.56×10-22 s (predicted)
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THE CITY OF REVELATION John Michell 1972 Gnostic Numbers Page 118 "Exactly how they came by their science of numbers is not certain, but they appear to have made the discovery that the numerical code of the Hebrew cabala and those of other mystical systems throughout the world were all degenerate versions of the same once universal system of knowledge that returns within the reach of human perception at certain intervals in time. As the revealed books of the Old Testament were written in a code to be interpreted by reference to number, so were the revelations of the gnostic prophets expressed in words and phrases formed on a system of proportion, which gave life and power to the Christian myth, while allowing initiates to gain a further understanding of the balance of forces that produce the world of phenomena." Page 121 / How it was ever supposed that the Hebrew alphabet of twenty- two letters, together with various geometrical symbols might serve to represent the entire moving pattern of the universe is not now easy to understand; but, since all ancient philosophy, religion, magic, the arts and sciences were based on the concept of a correspondence between numbers and cosmic law, it is impossible to appreciate the history of the past without some actual experience of the fundamental truth behind this approach to cosmology. Plato gives a remarkable account in Cratylos of the origin of language and letters. The philo-sopher is asked whether there is any particular significance in names, for surely they are simply a matter of convention and one is more or less as good as another. After all, foreigners call things by different names and appear to manage just as well as the Greeks in this respect. The answer given is that despite appearances the matter is by no means so simple. Words are the tools of expression, and the making of these, as of any other tools, is the task of a skilled craftsman, in this case the lawgiver. Language has grown corrupt over the ages, and names have deviated from their original perfect forms, which are those used by the gods. But all names were originally formed on certain principles, through knowledge of which it is possible to dis- cover the archetypal meaning of words in current use. 'So perhaps the man who knows about names considers their value and is not confused if some letter is added, transposed or subtracted, or even if the force of the name is expressed in quite different letters.' This is Plato's clearest reference to the mystical science of the cabala, in which letters, words and whole phrases may be substituted for others of the same numerical value. The force of a name is to be found in its number, and can be expressed through any combination of letters,. provided the sum of the letters amounts to the appropriate number by gematria.
INTO THE SPIRAL Charles Ashton 1992 Page 120 "What door?" Ormand demanded in a shaky voice. "Why, this door ," the voice grated. And they saw the plain wooden boards of a door where the tunnel wall had been. "Where does it go?" Lissie whispered. "Why, it says here on the door, child. Can't you read it?" "There's nothing there," said Lissie, staring at the door. "Look," the lantern bearer rasped, with a black, hollow grin. "It's written on the door. A - M - A-" the bony finger moved across the plain wood of the door as the dry mouth spelled out letters - " Z - E - M - E - N - T. What does that say?" "I don't know," Lissie replied. "It says Amazement!" the ancient mouth roared, as the door burst open in another shower of earth. "IT SAYS AMAZEMENT!" The empty doorway seemed to do a cartwheel towards them. "It says Amazement!" came a third time, muffled now and echoing and mixed with the slamming sound of wood on wood on the "maze" sound. Lissie and Ormand stood alone in a squared corridor of rock, beside a flickering torch fixed into a bracket on the wall." Page123 9 "INTO THE SPIRAL" EXTENDED SIMILIES Jenny Joseph 1997 Page 157 "There was the thread, the thread you see, and she followed it. Curdie, no that was a boy, Curdie and the thread, the good boy, he got her through. Or there was a fall of rock and it was buried, she had to scrabble with her hands and they never got them out those people trapped underneath when the earthquake collapsed the buildings. I can remember the man with his bare hands, they were bare, raw, that's it, skinned - but it must have been a pic-ture of course. But the thread was there, sometimes - he was losing it, losing his thought. Yes, that was the way the thread went, it came and went, elu-sive as thought - now it flashed into focus, now he had it, him sitting reading to his little girl - but he can't have had that book as a child, he hadn't had that sort of childhood. Thinking about the thread, the idea, myth of the thread was a good way to get you applying yourself, persisting, and he had, hadn't he, he'd gone on searching with his dog in the rubble long after the others had given up. So that thinking, which he'd thought he'd come to as a solid thing like chipping away shale and muck to get at a bit, of core, a thing like a lump of coal, usable, source of energy, so that it didn't matter what you thought, it was a rope ladder to get you across somewhere, get you through the mess, something you pretended, no, not pretended - made up? - to be doing to give a reason for going on. Made up. Ah perhaps something you made, engineered, he'd like it when they called him Monsieur l'lngenieur, ingenious. Not for a reason - you don't need a reason for going on, you need a road, a way, ah yes a means. A way of going. That was tautology. You could just say 'a way'. 'Tell Alice' (you think I don't know she's dead, he heard his crafty thought within his head and in the same flash behaved as if he didn't), 'keep her fingers on the golden thread.' If it's all a fancy, if there isn't something that's true, then there isn't untrue and you were back where you were. He was getting there, getting down that path and this time he would get there, he could still breathe he could still tell them even though they couldn't move the rock off him. If there isn't anything that's true, the opposite of true was false. But it couldn't be false because you can't have an opposite to some-thing that doesn't exist. Though what about negative numbers? Page168 Alice was cleverer than he was he should have asked her. But she could never explain things like he could but after all he'd been a teacher. So if no true, no false and nothing true means everything false. Yes, he'd got it. 'Useful,' he said. They bent low pretending they could hear to encourage him to speak some more. Useful. It was all useful. Alice's knitting had been useful. The thread and the rope ladder and the bridge were useful. Useful was much more useful than true. If he had realised that it was his son who was holding his hand he might have tried to speak in his type of hearty old reprobate he'd put on for years for young people and said something in character like 'Bugger the truth' because he knew they thought he thought truth was the pearl so he had it both ways. They would have been his next, last words but he kept his secret from them till the end because he had got beyond the division of time that living beings need in order to negotiate it, to a point where command question statement implying continuing into a future from the past were neither true, false or useful."
THE SIRIUS CONNECTION Murray Hope 1996 Origins and Anomalies Page 18 "With reference to the sun's different rising and setting points, this can now be substantiated in the works of such experts as Professor Charles Hapgood, John Ivimy, Jeffrey Goodman, Richard Mooney, and other scholars of repute. The fact that the / Page 19 / poles and equator have changed position in epochs past is common knowledge among those specialising in the disciplines concerned. There is also evidence to suggest that at some point during the Age of Cancer we acquired the extra five days known as epagomenal, the Earth having previously taken only 360 days to complete its annual cycle. Mooney offers the following information: The Reverend Bowles, a nineteenth-century archaeologist and authority on megalithic monuments in Britain, says that the circles of Avebury represent a calendar of 360 days, and that an extra five days were added later. In all the ancient classical writings of the Hindu Aryans, there is a year of 360 days. The Aryabhatiya, the ancient Indian mathematical and astronomical work, says: ' A year consists of 12 months. A month consists of 30 days. A day consists of 60 nadis. A nadi consists of 60 vinadikas.' The ancient Babylonian year was of 12 months of 30 days each. The Babylonian zodiac was divided into 36 decans, this being the space the sun covered in relation to the fixed stars during a 10-day period. Thus the 36 decans require a year of only 360 days. Ctesias wrote that the walls of Babylon were 360 furlongs in circumference, 'as many as there are days in the year.' The Egyptian year was originally 12 months of 30 days each, according to the Ebers papyrus. A tablet discovered at Tanis in the Nile Delta in 1866 reveals that in the ninth year of Ptolemy Euergetes (237 BC), the priests of Canopus decreed that as it was 'necessary to harmonise the calendar according to the present arrangement of the world.' One day was ordered to be added every four years to the 360 days, and to the five days which were afterwards ordered to be added. The ancient Romans also had a year of 360 days. Plutarch, in his life of Numa, wrote that in the time of Romulus the year was made up of twelve 30-day months. The Mayan year was of 360 days, called a tun. Five days were later added, and an extra day every fourth year. The Mayans computed the synodal period of the moon as 29.5209 days, as accurately as we can calculate today with our sophisticated equipment. Their degree of accuracy would surely not have been less when they computed the 360-day year. 'They did reckon them apart, and called them the days of nothing; during which the people did not anything,' wrote J.de Acosta, an early writer on America. The Mexicans at the time of the Spanish conquest called each 30- day period a moon. / Page20 / The Incan year was divided into 12 quilla, or moons of 30 days. Five days were added at the end, and an extra day for every four years. The extra days were regarded as unlucky, or fateful. The ancient Chinese calendar was a 12-month year of 30 days each. They added 5 1/4 days to the year, and also divided the sphere into 365 1/4 days, adopting the new length of the year into geometry as well. The aforegoing has usually been explained away by scholars as representing errors that were latterly refined as mathematical knowledge increased. One is tempted to ask, however, why so many different cultures, from different parts of the world, would have simultaneously committed the same error. We have heard of the Law of Synchronicity, but surely this tends to stretch coincidence a little too far! An alteration in the Earth's orbit changing its proximity to the sun would, however, account for the difference in the length ot the year. And if the Earth had been jolted out of its former position, the moon would also have been affected. As Mooney puts it: Since the moon is a smaller body than Earth, and the distances between them much smaller than between the Earth and the sun, the differences would have been even more noticeable in the case of the Earth/moon system than in the case of the Earth/sun system. This would appear to have been the case. In several ancient sources it has been found that there were four 9-day weeks to each lunar month, making a month of 36 days. This 9-day phase has been found in ancient Greek, Babylonian, Chinese and Roman sources, among others. As these lunar computations did not fit with a year of 360 days~ the calendars were altered to a 10-month year. This was an attempt to regulate the 'new' year to fit the 'old' 360-day year!9 The ancient Celts, who were decidedly lunar orientated, ascribed magical powers to the number 9, associating it with the three aspects of the Triple Goddess - Maiden, Mother and Crone. Presuming legend to be the embodiment of past deeds, no- where is the advent of the epagomenal days better described, albeit allegorically, that in the Egyptian myth of the birth of the five great gods, or Neters, of ancient Egypt. Shu and Tefnut, the Twin Lion gods of Time, were the children of the Solar Lord Ra (seen in this context, I feel, as the binary star Sirius rather than our own sun). They, in turn, gave birth to Geb and Nut (the Earth and the sky). But Nut, who was also believed to have been the / Page 21 /spouse of Ra, offended her husband by cohabiting with her brother. Enraged by his wife's infidelity, Ra swore that she should not be delivered of a child on any of the 360 days of his year, which might have caused her considerable difficulty had not Thoth, god of science and mathematics, Keeper of the Akashic Records, divine Advocate and Lord of Time, played his famous game of draughts with the moon, from which he won one seventy-second part of her light (1/72 of 360 is exactly 5!) which he made into five new days called 'epagomenal'. Nut was then able to give birth to the five children she had been carrying - Osiris, Horus the Elder, Set, Isis and Nephthys, in that order. The legend is also reiterated in the Greek myth of Cronus (Time) swallowing five of his own children and disgorging them after taking a potion administered to him by Metis Justice!). Although various magical and mystical interpretations have been placed upon these stories by scholars, metaphysicists and romantics, what the myths are bascally telling us is that as a result of some drama played out between the Earth, the moon and some solar energy external to our star system, the calendar had to be changed, and that it was Thoth, a lunar deity, who effected the alteration. In other words, a change in the Earth's orbit involving the moon, which precipitated a change in the Earth's axis, was responsible for the five extra days we now have in our calendars, and since, as the ancient Egyptians have been most careful to tell us, the five epagomenal Neters have strong connections with Sirius, we may presume that a bright blue-white star in the constellation of Canis Major was the third, and probably most influential, player in this celestial drama." �
SIRIUS 199931 SIRIUS SIRIUS = 95 = SIRIUS SIRIUS = 5 = SIRIUS
THE SIRIUS CONNECTION Murray Hope1996 Page 20 "In several ancient sources it has been found that there were four 9-day weeks to each lunar month, making a month of 36 days. This 9-day phase has been found in ancient Greek, Babylonian, Chinese and Roman sources, among others. As these lunar computations did not fit with a year of 360 days~ the calendars were altered to a 10-month year. This was an attempt to regulate the 'new' year to fit the 'old' 360-day year!9 "The ancient Celts, who were decidedly lunar orientated, ascribed magical powers to the number" 9
THE ELEMENTS OF THE GODDESS Caitlin Williams 1989 Page 38 LIGHT The triplicities and ninefold permutations derived from these aspects are far more subtle than arbitrary divisions of the Goddess into triple moon-phases, or as reflections of the female life cycle-Maiden / Page 37 (Fig 6 and 7 omitted / Page38 / Mother and Crone. It is not that such definitions are invalid so much as that each of the triple-aspects of the Goddess contains elements of the ennead. This ennead of aspects is endlessly adaptable for it is made up of nine, the most adjustable and yet essentially unchanging number. However one chooses to add up multiples of nine, for example 54, 72, 108, they always add up to nine.
THE NUMBER 9
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS ThomasMann 1875 - 1955 JOSEPH THE PROVIDER Page 954 "...You excite yourself, Meni, and it is not good for Your Majesty's health. You should rest, after the interpretation and all this exchange of views, and take a little time from the time that is given you, to let your decisions ripen, not only concerning measures against what may come, but also about the very serious proposal to change your name, which you seem to be considering; while at the same time you are thinking about a proper reward for this soothsayer. Do go and rest!" But the King was unwilling. "Mama," he cried, "I do beg you most ardently not to ask that of me, just in the middle of such a promising train! I assure you, My Majesty is perfectly well and feels no trace of fatigue. I am so excited that I feel well, and so well that I feel ex- cited. You talk just like the nurses in my childhood; when I felt my liveliest, then they said: 'You are overtired, Lord of the Two Lands, you must go to bed.' It could only make me savage, I could have kicked with rage. Now I am grown, and I thank you most respectfully for your care of me. But I have the distinct, feeling that this present audience can lead to further good and that my decisions can better ripen here than in my bed, and in talk with this skilled soothsayer, to whom I am grateful, if for no other reason, for giving me the oppor-Page 955 / tunity to speak of my intention to take a real name, which contains the name of the unique one, namely Ikhnaton, that my name may be pleasing to my Father. Everything should be called after him and not after Amun; and if the Lady of the Two Lands, who fills the palace with sweetness, the sweet Titi, is soon brought to bed, then the royal infant, whether prince or princess, shall be called Merytaton, that it may be loved by him who is love. No matter if I draw down on my head the anger of the mighty one of Karnak, who will come and make representations and harangue me with threats of the anger of the Ram! Him I can endure - all I can endure for the sake of my love to my Father above." "Pharaoh," said the mother, "you forget that we are not alone. Matters which need to be dealt with in wisdom and moderation are probably best not discussed in the hearing of a soothsayer from the people." "Let that be, Mama," replied Amenhotep. "He is in the way of noble lineage, that he has himself given us to understand - the son of a rogue and a lovely one, which is definitely attractive to me; while that he says he was even as a child called the lamb, that also indicates a certain refinement. Children of the lower classes are not given such nicknames. And besides, I get the impression that he is able to under-stand much, and give answers to much. Above and beyond all this, he loves me and is ready to help me, as he has done already in inter-preting the dreams and also by reason of his original view that one should call oneself according to one's own circumstances and feelings. It would all be very fine, if I liked a little better the name by which he chooses to be known. . . . I would not wish to be unfriendly or distress you," he turned to Joseph, "but the kind of name you have taken pains me: Osarsiph, that is a name of the dead, as when we call the dead bull Osar-Hapi; it bears the name of the dead lord, Usir, the frightful, on the judge's throne and with the scale, who is only just but without mercy, and before whose tribunal the terrified soul trem-bles and shakes. This old creed has nothing in it but fear, it is dead itself, it is an Osar-creed, and my Father's son believes not in it." "Pharaoh," the mother's voice came again, "I must once more ap-peal to you and warn you to be cautious and I need not hesitate to do so in the presence of this foreign interpreter, since you grant him such extended audience and take as a sign of his higher origins his mere assertion that as a child he was called the lamb. So he may hear that I warn you to be wise and moderate. It is enough that you go about to decrease the power of Amun and set yourself against his uni-versal rule, in that wherever possible you take from him step by step the unity with Re the horizon-dweller, who is the Aton. Even to do this takes all the shrewdness and policy in the world, and a cool head besides, for heated rashness comes of evil. But let Your Majesty be./ Page 956 / ware of laying hands on the people's belief in Usir, King of the lower regions, to which it clings more obstinately than to any other deity, because all are equal before him, and each one hopes to go in unto him with his name. Bear in mind the prejudice of the many, for what you give to Aton by diminishing Amun, you take away again by offending Usir." "Ah, I assure you, Mama, the people only imagine that they cling so to Usir," cried Amenhotep. "How could it really cling to a belief that the soul which goes up to the judge's seat must pass through seven times seven regions of terror, inhabited by demons who cross- examine it as it passes in some three hundred and sixty several magic formulas, each harder to remember than the last, yet the poor soul must have them all by heart and be able to repeat each one in the right place, otherwise it does not pass and will be devoured before ever it reaches the judgment seat. And if it does get there, it has every prospect of being devoured if its heart weighs too light in the scale; for then it is delivered over to the monstrous dog of Amente. I ask you, where is there anything in all that to cling to? - it is against all the love and goodness of my Father above. Before Usir of the lower regions all are equal - yes, equal in terror. Whereas before my Father all shall be equal in joy. With Amun and Aton it is the same. Amun too, with the help of Re, will be universal and will unite the world in worship of him. There they are of one mind. But Amun would make the world- one in the rigid service of fear, a false and sinister unity, which my Father would not, for he would unite his children in joy and tenderness." "Meni," said the mother again, in her low voice, "it would be better for you to spare yourself and not speak so much of joy and tenderness. You know from experience that the words are dangerous to you and put you beside yourself." "I am speaking, Mama, of belief and unbelief," answered Amenhotep; once more he worked himself out of the cushions and stood on his feet. "Of these I speak, and my own good mind tells me that disbelief is almost more important than belief. In belief there must be a sizable element of disbelief; for how can a man believe what is true so long as he also believes what is false? If I want to teach the people what is true, I must first take from them certain beliefs to which they, cling. Perhaps that is cruel, but it is the cruelty of love, and my Father in the sky will forgive me. Yes, which is more glorious, belief or disbelief, and which should come before the other? Believing is a great rapture for the soul. But not believing is almost more joyous than belief - I have found it so, My Majesty has experienced it, and I do not believe in the realms of fear and the demons and Usiri with his frightfully named ones and the devourer down there below."
ThomasMann 1875 - 1955 8 x 9 ISISIS 72 Page 890 "The first steps toward the goal of overturning the dynasty, bringing in a new time and elevating the nameless near-favourite to the rank of goddess-mother had been successfully taken. The plot was hatched in Pharaoh's house of women; but through certain officials of the harem and certain officers of the guard who had been eager for new things, connections had been established, on the one hand with the palace itself, where a number of friends, some of them highly placed - a head charioteer of the god, the chief of gens-d'armes, the steward of the fruit stores, the overseer of the King's herds of oxen, the head keeper of the King's ointments, and certain others - were won over for the enterprise; and on the other hand they got in touch with the outer world of the residential city, where through the officers' wives the male kindred of Pharaoh's graces were drawn in and engaged to stir up Wese's population with evil talk against the old Re, who by now was nothing at all but gold and silver and lapis lazuli. In all there were two-and-seventy conspirators privy to the plot. It was a proper and a pregnant number, for there had been just seventy-two when red Set lured Usir into the chest. And these seventy- two in their turn had had good cosmic ground to be no more and no less than that number. For it is just that number of groups of five weeks which make up the three hundred and sixty days of the year, not counting the odd days; and there are just seventy-two days in the dry fifth of the year, when the gauge shows that the Nourisher has reached his lowest ebb, and the god sinks into his grave. So where there is conspiracy anywhere in the world it is requisite and customary for the number of conspirators to be seventy-two. And if the plot fail, the failure shows that if this number had not been adhered to it would have failed even worse."
FINGERPRINTSOF THE GODS Graham Hancock 1995 THOTH THE SEVENTH PHARAOH
IN SEARCH OF SCHRODINGER'S CAT John Gribbin 1984 Page 77 "With the elements arranged in a periodic table, even in 1922 there were a few gaps, corresponding to un-discovered elements with atomic numbers 43, 61, 72, 75, 85 and 87. Bohr's model predicted the detailed properties of these "missing" elements and suggested that element 72, in particular, should have properties similar to zirconium, a forecast that contradicted predictions made on the basis of alternative models of the atom. The prediction was con- finned within a year with the discovery of hafnium, ele-ment 72, which turned out to have spectral properties exactly in line with those predicted by Bohr. This was the high point of the old quantum theory. Within three years, it had been swept away, although as far as chemistry is concerned you need little more than the idea of electrons as tiny particles orbiting around atomic nuclei in shells that would "like" to be full (or empty, but preferably not in between). * And if you are interested in the physics of gases, you need little more than the image of atoms as hard, indestructible billiard balls. Nineteenth- century physics will do for everyday purposes; the physics of 1923 will do for most of chemistry; and the physics of the 1930s takes us about as far as anyone has yet gone in the search for ultimate truths. There has been no great break- through comparable to the quantum revolution for fifty years, and in all that time the rest of science has been catching up with the insights of a handful of geniuses. The success of the Aspect experiment in Paris in the early 1980s marked the end of that catching-up period, with the 'I am, of course, exaggerating the simplicity of chemistry here. The "little more" that is needed to explain more complex molecules was developed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. using the fruits of the full development of quan- tum mechanics. The person who did most of the work was Linus Pauling, more familiar today as a peace campaigner and proponent of vitamin C, who received the first of his two Nobel Prizes for the work, being cited in 1954 "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application 10 the elucidation of the structure df complex substances." Those "complex sub- stances" elucidated with the aid of quantum theory by Pauling, a physical chemist, opened the way to a study of the molecules of life. The key signifi-cance of quantum chemistry to molecular biology is acknowledged by Horace Judson in his epic book The Eighth Day of Creation; the detailed story, alas, is beyond the scope of the present book. Page 77 Bohr's model predicted the detailed properties of these "missing" elements and suggested that element 72, in particular, should have properties similar to zirconium, a forecast that contradicted predictions made on the basis of alternative models of the atom. The prediction was con- finned within a year with the discovery of hafnium, ele-ment 72, which turned out to have spectral properties exactly in line with those predicted by Bohr.
THE FINGERPRINTS Of THE GODS Graham Hancock 1995 Page 274 / 275 "The pre-eminent number in the code is 72. To this is frequently added 36, making 108, and it is permissible to multiply 108 by 100 to get 10,800 or to divide it by 2 to get 54, which may then be multiplied by 10 and expressed as 540 (or as 54,000, or as 540,000, or as 5,400,000, and so on). Also highly significant is 2160 ( the number of years required for the equinoctial point to transit one zodiacal constellation), which is sometimes multiplied by 10 and by factors of ten (to give 216,000, 2,160,000, and so on) " and sometimes by 2 to give 4320, or 43,200, or 432,000, or 4,320,000, ad infinitum." "The pre-eminent number in the code is 72
KEEPER OF GENESIS RobertBauval Graham Hancock 1996 A QUEST FORTHE HIDDEN LEGACY OFMANKIND "In short it seems that secret knowledge is indeed available in the myth of Osiris and in the dimensions of the Great Pyramid. With this secret knowledge, if we wanted to fix a specific date - say 1008 years in the future - and communicate it to other initiates, then we could do so with the 'special number' 14( 72 x 14= 1008).
RE MEMBERING OSIRIS Tom Hare 1999 Page17 "There is, in fact, a striking omission from most Egyptian accounts of the story: the murder itself. The Pyramid Text reference to Osiris having been "laid low" is hardly specified in more detail until Plutarch. As he tells the tale, Setekh has woven a fine deceit in revenge for an adulterous (although apparently mistaken) encounter between Osiris and his own wife, Nephthys. Having designed a beautiful coffin, Setekh brings it to a banquet and offers it to whoever might lie in it and find it a match to his own dimensions. He has, of course, built it expressly for Osiris. After many of the other banqueters have tried the coffin, Osiris falls for the trick and lies down in it himself. Setekh and some 72 accomplices immediately fall upon him, nail the coffin shut, and seal it with lead. They carry the coffin to the Nile and set it adrift. It eventually floats down the Tanite branch in the delta out into the Mediterranean and along the coast of Palestine as far as Byblos. Isis, in a frenzy of grief, sets out to search for the coffin, eventually finding it in the royal palace at Byblos. She brings it back to Egypt with the aid of ruses and magical feats ingeniously unfolded in the Greek narrative. When she has returned to her son Horus in Buto (Arab. Tell el-Fara 'in), she hides the body in an out-of-the-way place. Setekh manages all the same to find it. He chops it in fourteen pieces and scatters them through- out Egypt. Isis manages to retrieve them all, except for the phallus, which falls into the Nile where it is devoured by fish. ISISIS 1008
KEEPER OF GENESIS RobertBauval Graham Hancock 1996 A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND Page 247 Special numbers "We suspect that the phrase to 'go down to any sky' suggests an awareness - and recording - of precessionally induced changes in the positions of the stars over long periods of time. And we also note its implication that if the chosen initiate was equipped with the correct numerical spell then he would be able to work out - and visualize - the correct positions of the stars in any epoch of his choosing, past or future. Once again Sellers stands out amongst Egyptologists for being the first to have entertained such apparently outlandish notions. 'It is possible', she writes, 'that early man encoded in his myths special numbers; numbers that seemed to reveal to initiates an amazing knowledge of the movement of the celestial spheres.' 27 Such numbers, she argues, appear to have been derived from a sustained, scientific study of the cycle of precession and a measure- ment of its rate and, puzzlingly, turn out to be extremely 'close to the calculations made with today's sophisticated procedures'. Intrigu- ingly, too, there is evidence not only 'that these calculations were made, and conclusions drawn', but also that 'they were transmitted to others by secret encoding that was accessible only to an elite few':28 In short, Sellers concludes, 'ancient man calculated a special number that he believed would bring this threatening cycle [of precession] back to its starting point. . .'29 The 'special number' to which Sellers is referring to is 25,920 (and multiples and divisions of it) and thus represents the duration, in solar years, of a full precessional cycle or 'Great Year,.30 She shows how it can be derived from a variety of simple combinations of other numbers - 5,12, 36, 72,360, 432, 2100, etc., etc. -all of which are in turn derived from precise observations of precession. M(Jst crucially of all, she shows that this peculiar sequence of numbers occurs in the ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris where, notably '72 consipirators' are said to have been involved with Seth in the murder of the God-King: As was shown in Fingerprints of the Gods, the sun's perceived motion through the signs of the zodiac at the vernal equinox proceeds at the rate of one degree every seventy-two years. From this it follows that a movement of the vernal point through 30 degrees will take 2160 / Page 248 / years to complete, 60 degrees will take 4320 years, and a full 360-degree cycle will require 25,920 years!2 Curiously enough, as the reader will recall from Part I, the Great Pyramid itself incorporates a record of these precessional numbers - since its key dimensions (its height and the perimeter of its base) appear to have been designed as a mathematical model of the earth's polar radius and equatorial circumference on a scale of 1 :43,200. The number 43,200 is, of course, exactly 600 times 72. What we have in this remarkable monument, therefore, is not just a scale model of a hemisphere of the earth but also one in which the scale involved incorporates a 'special number' derived from one of the key planetary motions of the earth itself - i.e. the rate of its axial precession. In short it seems that secret knowledge is indeed available in the myth of Osiris and in the dimensions of the Great Pyramid. With this secret knowledge, if we wanted to fix a specific date - say 1008 years in the future - and communicate it to other initiates, then we could do so with the 'special number' 14( 72 x 14= 1008). We would also have to specify the 'zero point' from which they were to make their calculations - i.e the present epoch - and this might be done with some kind of symbolic or mathematical marker to indicate where the vernal point presently is, i.e. moving out of Pisces and into Aquarius. A similar exercise could likewise be carried out in reverse. By following the 'eastwards' direction along the ecliptic path we can 'find' (calculate, work out) where the vernal point was at any epoch in the past. Thus if today we wished to use the precessional code to direct attention towards the Pyramid Age we would need to confide to other initiates the 'special number' of 62.5 (72 x 62.5 = 4500 years ago = approximately 2500 BC). Again, we could rule out any ambiguity as to the zero date from which the calculations were to be made if we could find a way to indicate the present position of the vernal point. We have seen that this is what Sneferu appears to have done with the two Pyramids at Dahshur, which map the two sides of the head of the celestial bull- the 'address' of the vernal point in his epoch. And in a sense, though with a great deal more specificity and precision, this could also be exactly what the builders of the Great Pyramid were doing when they deliberately targeted the southern shafts of the King's and Queen's Chambers on the meridian-transits of such / Page249 / significant stars as Orion and Sirius in the epoch of 2500 BC. To be clear about this, it seems to us well worth investigating the possibility that by setting up such obvious and precise 'time markers' they were trying to provide an unambiguous zero point - circa 2500 BC - for calculations that could only be undertaken by initiates steeped in the mysteries of precession, who were equipped by their training to draw out the hidden portents concealed in certain 'special numbers'. We note in passing that if the Horus-King could have been provided with the 'special number' 111. 111, and had used it in the way described above, it would have led him back to (72 x 111. 111 years =) 7,999.99 years before the specified 'ground zero', i.e. to almost exactly 8000 before before 2500 BC - in short, to 10,500 BC. We know this seems like wishful numerology of the worst sort-i.e. 'factoring in' an arbitrary value to a set of calculations so as to procure spurious 'corroboration' for a specific desired date (in this case the date of I 0,500 DC, twelve and a half thousand years before the present, that we have already highlighted in Chapter 3 in connection with the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza). The problem, however, is that the number 111.111 may well not be an arbitrary value. At any rate, it has long been recognized that the main numerical factor in the design of the Great Pyramid, and indeed of the Giza necropolis as a whole, is the prime number 11 - a prime number being one that is only divisible by itself to produce the whole number1. Thus 11 divided by 11, i.e. the ratio 11:11, produces the whole number 1 (while 11 divided by anything else, i.e. any other ratio, would, of neccessity, generate a fraction). What is intriguing is the way that the architecture of the Great Pyramid responds to the number 11 when it is divided, or multiplied, by other whole numbers."
Fingerprints Of The Gods Graham Hancock 1998 Why a mathematical language? Page 197 "...Perhaps because, no matter what extreme changes and transforma-tions human civilization might go through, the radius of a circle multiplied by 2pi (or half the radius multiplied by 4pi) would always give the correct figure for that circle's circumference. In other words, a mathematical language could have been chosen for practical reasons: unlike any verbal tongue, such a code could always be deciphered, even by people from unrelated cultures living thousands of years in the future."
THE NUMBER 9 I PI WITH MINE NINE EYE
REACH FOR TOMORROW Arthur C Clarke Introduction to 1989 Edition "Unlike authors of so-called mainstream fiction, the writer of science fiction has the responsibility (often an embarrassing one) of confronting his readers every decade or so, to report on how his ideas have stood the test of time. This, of course, is one excellent reason for setting stories in the very distant future. Then there's no need to explain - or to apologize. In the case of this volume, much of which was conceived, if not written, almost half a century ago, I'm happy to find relatively few embarrassments. However, I have made some interesting discoveries; for instance, on the very first page of the very first story, I see the number 9000. I've no idea why I selected it again for HAL's serial number, twenty years later."However, I have made some interesting discoveries; for instance, on the very first page of the very first story, I see the number 9000. I've no idea why I selected it again for HAL's serial number, twenty years later. . ."
I SEE THE NUMBER 9 000
NON ANGLI SED ANGELI NON ANGELI SED ANGLI
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD E.A.Wallis Budge Page 397 [From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No 10,477, sheets 17 and 18).] OF LIVING NIGH UNTO RA Text (1) THE CHAPTER OF HAVING EXISTENCE NIGH UNTO RA "...I am that god Ra who shineth in the night. Every : - "(2) being who followeth in his train shall have life in "the following of the god Thoth, and he shall give "unto him the risings of Horus in the darkness..." Page 398 "...And I say, 'On every road "and among (11) these millions of years is Ra the lord, "and his path is in the fire; and they go round about "behind him, and they go round about behind him.' " 181818181818181818ZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZA818181818181818181
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD E.A.Wallis Budge Page 398 "behind him, and they go round about behind him.' "
A. P. Rossiter 1939 Page 18
THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS Louis Pauwels and Jaques Bergier 1960 Page 226 "The 'Sun' was the fixed centre round which the electrons revolve."
THE GROWTH OF SCIENCE A. P. Rossiter 1939 Page 18 "In Philolaus, of the later Pythagoreans, this theory gave something near the facts: the Earth and its opposite were like balls hanging in space turning about a secret Fire, the middle point of all things, never seen by living eyes. Some 200 years later, Aristarchus was to put forward a true theory of the Earth's motion about the Sun; but even then there was not enough observation to make it seem true. Without good instruments and detailed measurings, it was more readily seen that the Sun and stars did go round; and again, there was the natural feeling that Man was necessarily the middle of things." '. . . . In each of the planetary spheres there are invisible stars which revolve together with their spheres"
THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS Louis Pauwels and Jaques Bergier 1960 Page 226 "Moufang and Stevens, in a work entitled The: Mystery of Dreams have cited a number of cases, which have been carefully checked, in which dreams revealed future events and led to important scientific discoveries. The celebrated atomic scientist, Niels Bohr, when he was a student, had a strange dream. He saw himself on a Sun consisting of burning gas. Planets whizzed by, whistling as they passed. They were attached to the Sun by thin filaments, and revolved round it. Suddenly the gas solidified and the Sun and planets crumbled away. Niels Bohr then woke up and realized that he had just discovered the model of the atom, so long sought after. The 'Sun' was the fixed centre round which the electrons revolve. The whole of. modem atomic physics and its applications have come out of this dream. The chemist Auguste Kekule tells the following story: 'One summer's evening I was on the platform of my bus, on my way home, and went to sleep. I saw clearly and distinctly how, on every side, the atoms united in couples which were then merged in larger groups which, in their turn, were attracted by others still more powerful; and all these corpuscles were spinning round in a frenzied dance. I spent part of that night transcribing what I had seen in my dream. I had hit upon the theory of atomic structure.' Mter reading in the newspapers accounts of the bombardment of London, an engineer of the American Bell telephone company had a dream one night in the Autumn of 1940 in which he saw himself drawing the plan of an apparatus which would enable an anti-aircraft gun to be aimed at the exact spot where an aeroplane whose speed and trajectory were known, would pass. On awakening he traced the blueprint 'from memory'. A study of this apparatus, which was to use radar for the first time, was undertaken by the eminent scientist Norbert Wiener, and Wiener's report on this machine resulted in the birth of cybernetics. 'One certainly ought not to underestimate,' wrote Lovecraft (in Beyond the Walls of Sleep) 'the gigantic importance of dreams.' "
THE SIRIUS MYSTERY Robert Temple 1999 Page 504 "The Moons of the Planets, the Planets around Stars, and Revolutions and Rotations of Bodies in Space - Described by the Neoplatonic Philosopher Proclus '. . . . In each of the planetary spheres there are invisible stars which revolve together with their spheres. . .' So said Proclus the Platonic successor in AD 438. The non-specialist reader may never have heard of Proclus, one of the greatest intellects in the history of philosophy, who lived from AD 410 to 485. The English translations of this Greek philosopher's gigantic output are his Elements of Theology1 (which is not relevant to what we are to consider here), his Commentary on Euclid,2 his Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato,3 and one partial and one complete translation of his Commentary on the Parmenides of Plato4"
EMPEROR'S NEW MIND CONCERNING COMPUTERS.MINDS, AND THE LAWS OF PHYSICS Roger Penrose 1990 QUANTUM MAGIC AND QUANTUM MYSTERY Page 381 position do not apply to consciousness! A rough mathematical model for such a viewpoint was put forward by EugeqeP . Wigner (1961). He suggested that the linearity of Schrodinger's equation might fail for conscious (or merely 'living') entities, and be replaced by some non-linear procedure, according to which either one or the other alternative would be resolved out. It might seem to the reader that, since I am searching for some kind of role for quantum phenomena in our conscious thinking - as indeed I am- I should find this view to be a sympathetic possibility. However, I am not at all happy with it. It seems to lead to a very lopsided and disturbing view of the reality of the world. Those corners of the universe where consciousness resides may be rather few and far between. On this view, only in those corners would the complex. quantum linear superpositions be resolved into actual alterna- tives. It may be that to us, such other corners would look the same as the rest of the universe, since whatever we, ourselves, actually look at (or otherwise observe) would, by our very acts of con- scious observation, get 'resolved into alternatives', whether or not it had done so before. Be that as it may, this gross lopsidedness would provide a very disturbing picture of the actuality of the world, and I, for one, would accept it only with great reluctance. There is a somewhat related viewpoint, called the participatory universe (suggested by John A. Wheeler 1983), which takes the role of consciousness to a (different) extreme. We note, for example, that the evolution of conscious life on this planet is due to appropriate mutations having taken place at various times. These, presumably, are quantum events, so they would exist only in linearly superposed form until they finally led to the evolution of a conscious being - whose very existence depends upon all the right mutations having 'actually' taken place! It is our own presence which, on this view, conjures our past into existence. The circularity and paradox involved in this picture has an appeal for some, but for myself I find it distinctly worrisome - and, indeed, barely credible. Another viewpoint, also logical in its way, but providing a picture no less strange, is that of many worlds, first publicly put forward by Hugh Everett III (1957). According to the many- worlds interpretation, R never takes place at all. The entire Page 381 THE EMPEROR'S NEW MIND evolution of the state-vector - which is regarded realistically - is always governed by the deterministic procedure U. This implies that poor Schrodinger's cat, together with the protected observer inside the container, must indeed exist in some complex linear combination, with the cat in some superposition of life and death. However the dead state is correlated with one state of the inside observer's consciousness, and the live one, with another (and presumably, partly, with the consciousness of the cat - and, eventually, with the outside observer's also, when the contents become revealed to him). The consciousness of each observer is regarded as 'splitting', so he now exists twice over, each of his instances having a different experience (i.e. one seeing a dead cat and the other a live one). Indeed, not just an observer, but the entire universe that he inhabits splits in two (or more) at each 'measurement' that he makes of the world. Such splitting occurs again and again - not merely because of 'measurements' made by observers, but because of the macroscopic magnification of quan- tum events generally - so that these universe 'branches' proliferate wildly. Indeed, every alternative possibility would coexist in some vast superposition. This is hardly the most economical of view- points, but my own objections to it do not spring from its lack of economy. In particular, I do not see why a conscious being need be aware of only 'one' of the alternatives in a linear superposition. What is it about consciousness that demands that one cannot be 'aware' of that tantalizing linear combination of a dead and a live cat? It seems to me that a theory of consciousness would be needed before the many-worlds view can be squared with what one actually observes. I do not see what relation there is between the 'true' (objective) state-vector of the universe and what we are supposed actually to 'observe'. Claims have been made that the 'illusion' of R can, in some sense, be effectively deduced in this picture, but I do not think that these claims hold up. At the very least, one needs further ingredients to make the scheme work. It seems to me that the many-worlds view introduces a multitude of problems of its own without really touching upon the real puzzles of quantum measurement. (Compare DeWitt and Graham 1973.)
INCREDIBLE PHENOMENA Edited by Peter Brooksmith c 1980 "Below: the appropriately named Lucky, a tomcat, was found in a sealed drain in Bristol in June 1982. Workmen had blocked the drain five weeks before - with Lucky in it. His only injury was a stiff neck. After a hearty meal he was able to pose with kennel maid Joyce" Page 24 I n the 1930s the United States and Europe were treated to repeated demonstrations of live burials by three Egyptians, Tara Bey, Rahman Bey and Hamid Bey. While in England Rahman Bey effected various 'mysterious' feats under the auspices of psychical researcher Harry Price, including a live burial at Carshalton, Surrey, in July 1938 (right). Although he emerged in good condition some time later (below right) his 'miraculous' abilities were later shown to be only average tricks by Harry Houdini, who outdid every trick the Beys performed Below: the appropriately named Lucky, a tomcat, was found in a sealed drain in Bristol in June 1982. Workmen had blocked the drain five weeks before - with Lucky in it. His only injury was a stiff neck. After a hearty meal he was able to pose with kennel maid Joyce 1836 of a similar burial, by an unnamed fakir, at Jaisulmer. It might have been Haridas, for he too 'stopped the interior opening of the nostrils with his tongue' and made similar yogic preparations. This fakir was sewn into a thick cloth bag and placed in a stone cell lined with brick, which in turn was sealed with stone slabs, bricked up and guarded night and day.(At the end of a 'full month' he was removed frol:n his tomb perfectly senseless - and his skin was so dry and shrunken that he seemed to be almost mummified. His teeth were jammed together so fast that an iron lever was needed to force them apart in order to administer a little water. Even so, he too was fully recovered in a few hours. In the 1920S three self-styled Egyptians- Tara Bey, Rahman Bey and Hamid Bey- aroused considerable interest in their tour of Europe and the USA. They performed live burials attended by newsmen and physi- cians, and in the ground of the witnesses'
THE LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY A HISTORY OF THE SECRET LINKS BETWEEN MAGIC AND SCIENCE C.J.S.Thompson 1990 THE MYSTERY OF THE EMERALD TABLET Page 31 That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like that which is above, to accomplish the miracles of one thing And as in all things whereby contemplation of one, so in all things arose from this one thing by a single act of adoption The father thereof is the Sun, the mother the Moon. Page32 LURE fS ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY The wind carried it in its womb, the earth is the source thereof. It is the father of all works of wonder throughout the world. The power thereof is perfect. If it be cast on to earth, it will separate the element of earth from that of fire, the subtle from the gross. With great sagacity it doth ascend gently from earth to heaven. Again it doth descend to earth and uniteth in itself the force from things superior and things inferior. Thus thou wilt possess the brightness of the world, and all obscurity will fly far from thee. This thing is the strong fortitude of all strength, for it over- cometh every subtle thing and doth penetrate every solid substance. Thus was this world created. Hence will there be marvellous adaptations achieved of which the manner is this. For this reason I am called Hermes Trismegistus because I hold three parts of ' the wisdom of the whole world. That which I had to say about the operation of Sol is completed. What is the meaning of this enigma? Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, and other philosophers of the Middle Ages sought to solve it, but their comments only point to a vague doctrine of correspondence between heaven and earth, so that inanimate nature answers to the planets and the heavenly bodies. It obviously emphasizes the dependence of all earthly things on the sun, thus following the idea of Aristotle that man is gene- rated from man and the sun. I t refers to the action of the moon upon the earth, the action of fire on a solid body, causing distillation or sublimation, and the subsequent solution of a rarer liquid. It is, indeed, a brief summary of the principles of change in nature and the foundation of alchemical doctrine, and shows the close connexion between alchemy and astrology. One of the earliest doctrines of astrology was a belief in a mysterious emanation from the heavenly bodies which in- fluenced man's life in health and disease, and also affected all minerals, plants, and flowers, their properties being derived from the sun, the moon, and the planets. Legends of the discovery of ancient stone tablets or documents 32 Page33 / MYSTERY OF THE "EMERALD TABLET are not infrequent; another is provided by the story of the find- ing of the famous book on magic known as The Key of Solomon, which, according to tradition, was discovered secreted in an ivory casket in a tomb. In the account of the emerald tablet given by Roger Bacon in the Secretum Secretorum it is stated that "These precious sentences of Hermes were found by Galienus Alfachim the physician, on a plaque of emerald in a cave, clasped in the hands of the corpse of that mysterious legendary figure Hermes Tris- megistus, The Thrice Great." The reader is exhorted" to preserve the strictest secrecy from all except men of goodwill, this treasured text, even as Hermes himself had hidden it within the cave." Another instance of a similar discovery is the story respecting the treatise entitled Concerning the Seven, attributed to Alexius Africanus, in which the seven herbs connected with the seven planets are named. This document is said to have been found enclosed within a monument with the bones of the first King K yrannide~ in the town of Troy. Several early historians record that the lore of the Egyptians was preserved in the stelre of their temples. Iamblichus, in the fourth century, mentions" ancient stelre of Hermes in which all science was written down"; while Olympiodorus, in the sixth century, says, "The secret of the mystic art is inscribed on the obelisks in hieroglyphics." The tradition that the text was inscribed on an emerald may have arisen from the fact that in Grreco- Egyptian times the name was applied to any green stone. It may be well to quote another and freer translation of this historic text; it can be judged more clearly from this that the writer designed to teach the doctrines of alchemy that were common in the early Christian era. I speak not fictitious things, but that which is certain and most true. What is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below to accomplish the miracles of One Page 34 / ALCHEMY Thing. And as all things were produced by the One Word of One Being, so all things were produced from the One Thing by adaptation. Its father is the Sun, its mother the Moon, the wind carries it in its belly, its nurse is the earth. It is the father of all perfection throughout the world. The power is vigorous if it be changed into earth. Separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, acting prudently and with judgment. Ascend with the sagacity from the earth to heaven, and then again descend to the earth and unite together the powers of things superior and things inferior. Thus you will obtain the glory of the whole world and obscurity will fly far from you. This has more fortitude than fortitude itself, because it conquers every subtle thing and can penetrate every solid. Thus was the world formed. Hence pro- ceed wonders which are here established. Therefore I am called Hermes Trismegistus, having three parts of the philosophy of the whole world. That which I had to say concerning the operation of the Sun is completed. .i The authorship of this remarkable message still remains a mystery, although philosophers have laboured for centuries to prove its authenticity and to interpret its cryptic words. In the Middle Ages it was regarded as a marvellous revelation full of sublime secrets of great importance to mankind, but what these secrets were none was able to reveal. Ferguson enumerates forty-eight treatises and commentaries on the Emerald Tablet, and remarks that we cannot well ignore it-less perhaps now than ever in view of the discovery of Egyptian writings like the medical Papyrus Ebers, which he calls an hermetic treatise of 1550 B.C., a date coinciding with that assigned to Hermes by Lambeck. Other researches have shown that the belief in a person or persons of the name of Hermes has been so widespread and persistent that the whole Hermes legend forms a legitimate subject of inquiry as to its origin. The text is certainly not modern; it has been assigned to Hermes from the first, and its significance does not lie on the surface. It is a profound mystery and remains a great puzzle. Everything concerning it remains a problem; its legendary and romantic discovery, its author-whether one of the several per- / Page 35 / sonages of the name of Hermes or an anonymous writer who ascribed it to him to give it authority-and its possible con- nexion with so-called hermetic writings of an earlier time. De Sacy was of the opinion that the Emerald Tablet was the work of Apollonius of Tyana, but gives no grounds for his conclusion. The story of its discovery may be a myth, but we must remem- ber that the earliest Egyptian papyri dealing with medicine, which are believed to date from 1550 B.C., were found reposing between the legs of a mummy. The most that can be hoped for is that some future discoveries may lead at least to a plausible theory, if not to perfect certainty, regarding its origin Page 26 "There is further evidene in the Bible of the richness of the country in the precious metal, for it is recorded1 that the Queen of Sheba brought much gold and precious stones and / Page 27 and gave to King Solomon 120 talents, a sum equivalent to £240,000. The navy of Hiram also brought gold from Ophir, and the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents,.." 666 talents Reference (omitted) THE GIZA PYRAMIDS The alignment of the pyramids Grand Gallery pointed to the centre of one of the circles "Above the entrance to Plato's Academy at Athens was the legend 'Let none ignorant of geometry enter here'. To the ancient Greeks, pure geometry lay at the heart of all things. It was the way of reconciling the world of the divine with the form of the world we see. The golden mean proportion, for example, can be depicted in terms of geometry but not number. It can be drawn, but the number that represents it cannot be written down as it runs to an infinite number of decimal places. Geometry can be seen as a way of defining what is otherwise indefinable. Our knowledge of the use of pure geometry in ancient Egypt is more tenuous. We do not have any papyri which give the geometrical equivalent of the equations of Plato, Thales and Euclid, epitomising ancient Greek thought. However, Plato considered that Egypt possessed a profound canon of knowledge based on harmony and proportion. We can infer that the ancient Egyptians were as adept with the compass and the rule as their Greek counterparts. This knowledge would have influenced their art and architecture. Unravelling how the Egyptians might have selected the proportions they used is a way of reaching back into the roots of their civilisation."
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SENTINEL OF ETERNITY (1951) by Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Sentinel of Eternity", published in 1951 , which was used as a starting point for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey The story deals with the discovery of an artifact on Earth’s Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. The object is made of a polished mineral, is tetrahedral in shape, and is surrounded by a spherical forcefield. The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging “to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces.” "I was turning away when my eye caught a metallic glitter high on the ridge of a great promontory thrusting out into the sea thirty miles to the west. It was a dimensionless point of light," It was absolutely certain, my companions argued, that there had never been any form of intelligent life on the Moon. The only living things that had ever existed there were a few primitive plants and their slightly less degenerate ancestors. I knew that as well as anyone, but there are times when a scientist must not be afraid to make a fool of himself. “Listen,” I said at last, “I’m going up there, if only for my own peace of mind. That mountain’s less than twelve thousand feet high—that’s only two thousand under Earth gravity—and I can make the trip in twenty hours at the outside. I’ve always wanted to go up into those hills, anyway, and this gives me an excellent excuse.” Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favorite of the Sun’s children. Here, in the distant future, would be intelligence; but there were countless stars before them still, and they might never come this way again. So they left a sentinel, one of millions they have scattered throughout the Universe, watching over all worlds with the promise of life. It was a beacon that down the ages has been patiently signaling the fact that no one had discovered it. Perhaps you understand now why that crystal pyramid was set upon the Moon instead of on the Earth. Its builders were not concerned with races still struggling up from savagery. They would be interested in our civilization only if we proved our fitness to survive—by crossing space and so escaping from the Earth, our cradle. That is the challenge that all intelligent races must meet, sooner or later. It is a double challenge, for it depends in turn upon the conquest of atomic energy and the last choice between life and death. Once we had passed that crisis, it was only a matter of time before we found the pyramid and forced it open. Now its signals have ceased, and those whose duty it is will be turning their minds upon Earth. Perhaps they wish to help our infant civilization. But they must be very, very old, and the old are often insanely jealous of the young. I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire-alarm and have nothing to do but to wait.
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OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 The Sentinel "I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long."
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NUMBER 9 THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE Cecil Balmond 1998 Page 5 " To begin the search... "It is like a detective story, gradually unfolding, because that is how it happened; not just for me but for Enjil, the boy mathematician who discovered the secret behind the mysterious world of numbers. In his case though he would have come to it quickly - but I laboured long many a night to find the answer. The thing to do is to follow the path until all the clues are in place and let your mind run free. It is only then that you find what the young master saw: the fixed points in the wind. I had little to go on, just the stories without any detail, more legend than fact about how the numbers worked in secret and, in particular. the magic of one number. My grandfather first told me about those stories and the special drawings and number shapes. Only the remotest people of the mountain village knew about these, he said, but it was all too distant and far away for me to give it any further thought. I was at university and more interested in working out how to put a rocket on the moon; playing with arithmetic was not for me - my mind was occupied with higher things. Then one day I came across a children's book on numbers. One. . . two. . . three. . . . My eye went over the figures. Suddenly I saw something. There were hidden patterns; the old man's story about secret numbers came back to me and I became curious. I started to look into these simple ideas and the more I searched the more fascinated I became. Something was indeed going on underneath the surface of arithmetic and what appeared as a unique calculation to the outsideworld was something quite different when viewed from below. Looked at another way, six and six was not necessarily twelve but something much more exciting - the number 3, of a secret code. I was won over. I began to look at numbers differ ently. I used the special code I had stumbled on to find out more and track what Enjil had done; I spoke to people and read books; I looked for the answer to the riddle that made the Elders blanch and stir uncomfortably on that fateful day of the Examination. And I finally visi- ted the mountain villages where the pupils in the schools stared at the pictures before they did any cal- culations, in order that they may inspire themselves for the rigours of the task ahead. The pictures of course had been added to and decorated heavily but at their centre stood the original spirit of Enjil's drawings, powerful and beautiful. Through Enjil's investigation and my own research I have learnt many things I was never taught at school. When I think of the effort and the monotony I went through learning by rote, suffering numbers as necessary evils, I shudder. No teacher talked of the spirit of numbers, no teacher showed me the shape of a number. No one introduced me to a secret code that made lightning work of numbers and opened up worlds of wonderful possibilities hidden from the day-to-day grind; I found that other peoples too, in ancient times and in other lands, understood numbers as secret and special and alive, and not as mere counters, not just fodder for tiring calculations. / Page 7 / So I set out on the path Enjil took. My own labours overlap his and our two stories have now become one. But that is how a personal search should be - with the spirit of that first discovery reaching out and embracing one until no difference can be found between one's own research and the inspiration that was first taken in. What was the author's becomes yours - which must be the meaning of original, something that embraces and absorbs all those inquisitive enough to enquire of others' inventions. And it is in this spirit I dedicate the journey to you. Follow the clues, build up the jigsaw piece by piece and make your own investigations; become part of the search. Go back in time and let the free spirit in you enter. Talk to it, play, ask the strangest questions. Start to count again in the simplest of ways, one, two, three, four... up to nine. You need to do this, but you will also need nine clues. And to begin with there is the story of Enjil himself, the talisman I conjure up whenever I think of numbers and of the fixed patterns that turn in the wind. JUPITER WHEN STOOD IN LINE WEIGHS IN AT NUMBER 99 �
"I had little to go on, just the stories without any detail, more legend than fact about how the numbers worked in secret and, in particular. the magic of one number."
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THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1972 Page 15 "Beyond Mars, there were greater worlds, and mightier problems. Enigmatic Jupiter, with a thousand times the bulk of Earth, teased the minds of men with its mysteries. Perhaps there was life far beneath those turbulent clouds of ammonia and methane, thriving in the hot darkness at pressures unmatched in the deepest terrestrial seas. If so, / Page 16 / it would be as unreachable as another universe; for no ship yet imagined could fight its way down through that immense gravitational field, or withstand the forces that were raging in the Jovian atmosphere. Some robot probes had been launched on that fearful journey; none had survived. One day, perhaps in the early years of the new century, there would be manned expeditions to the moons of Jupiter-to Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, the beloved of the father of the gods, large enough to be called planets in their own right. But there was so much to do nearer home, with the buildup of the lunar colony and the establishment of a bridgehead on Mars, that the outer worlds must wait. Though there would be robot fly-by missions to all the giant planets, and even out into the comet-haunted darkness beyond Pluto, no men would travel on these lonely flights. As for voyaging outside the Solar System, to the still- undiscovered planets of other stars, few scientists believed that it would ever be possible. At the best, interstellar travel was certainly a dream of the very distant future, of no practical concern during the first few centuries of space flight. That was a very sensible, very reasonable prediction, repeated over and over again in the writings of the '70's and '80's. For who could possibly have guessed- Page 24 bothering to use my feet. At the rim I paused and waved to my companion; then I scrambled over the edge and stood upright, staring ahead of me. You must understand that until this very moment I had been almost completely convinced that there could be nothing strange or unusual for me to find here. Almost, but not quite; it was that haunting doubt that had driven me forward. Well it was a doubt no longer, but the haunting had scarcely begun. I was standing on a plateau perhaps a hundred feet across. It had once been smooth-too smooth to be natural-but falling meteors had pitted and scored its surface through immeasurable eons. It had been leveled to support a glittering, roughly pyramidal structure, twice as high as a man, that was set in the rock like a gigantic, many- faceted jewel. Probably no emotion at all filled my mind in those first few seconds. Then I felt a great lifting of my heart, and a strange, inexpressible joy. For I loved the Moon, and now I knew that the creeping moss of Aristarchus and Eratosthenes was not the only life she had brought forth in her youth. The old, discredited dream of the first explorers was true. There had, after all, been a lunar civilization- and I was the first to find it. That I had come perhaps a hundred million years too late did not distress me; it was enough to have come at all. My mind was beginning to function normally, to analyze and to ask questions. Was this a building, a shrine- or something for which my language had no name? If a building, then why was it erected in so uniquely inaccessible a spot? I wondered if it might be a temple, and I could picture the adepts of some strange priesthood calling on their gods to preserve them as the life of the Moon ebbed with the dying oceans-and calling on their gods in vain. I took a dozen steps forward to examine the thing more closely, but some sense of caution kept me from going too near. I knew a little archaeology, and tried to guess the cultural level of the civilization that must have smoothed this mountain and raised the glittering mirror surfaces that still dazzled my eyes. The Egyptians could have done it, I thought, if their workmen had possessed whatever strange materials these far more ancient architects had used. Because of the thing's smallness, it did not occur to me that I might be looking at the handiwork of a race more advanced than / Page 25 / my own. The idea that the moon had possessed intelligence at all was still almost too tremendous to grasp, and my pride would not let me take the final, humiliating plunge. And then I noticed something that set the scalp crawling at the back of my neck-something so trivial and so innocent that many would never have noticed it at all. I have said that the plateau was scarred by metours; it was also coated inches deep with the cosmic dust that is always filtering down upon the surface of any world where there are no winds to disturb it. Yet the dust and the meteor scratches ended quite abruptly in a wide circle enclosing the little pyramid, as though an invisible wall was protecting it from the ravages of time and the slow but ceaseless bombardment from space. There was someone shouting in my earphones, and I realized that Garnett had been calling me for some time. I walked unsteadily to the edge of the cliff and signaled him to join me, not trusting myself to speak. Then I went back toward that circle in the dust. I picked up a fragment of splintered rock and tossed it gently toward the shining enigma. If the pebble had vanished at that invisible barrier I should not have been surprised, but it seemed to hit a smooth, hemispherical surface and slide gently to the ground. I knew then that I was looking at nothing that could be matched in the antiquity of my own race. This was not a building, but a machine, protecting itself with forces that had challenged Eternity. Those forces, whatever they might be, were still operating, and perhaps I had already come too close. I thought of all the radiations man had trapped and tamed in the past century. For all I knew, I might be as irrevocably doomed as if I had stepped into the deadly, silent aura of an unshielded atomic pile. I remember turning then toward Garnett, who had joined me and was now standing motionless at my side. He seemed quite oblivious to me, so I did not disturb him but walked to the edge of the cliff in an effort to marshal my thoughts. There "below me lay the Mare Crisium-Sea.of Crises, indeed-strange and weird to most men, but reassuringly familiar to me. I lifted my eyes toward the crescent Earth, lying in her cradle of. stars, and I wondered what her clouds had covered when these unknown builders had finished their work. Was it the steaming jungle of the Carboniferous, the bleak shoreline over which the first amphibians must crawl to conquer the / Page 26 / land-or, earlier still, the long loneliness before the coming of life? Do not ask me why I did not guess the truth sooner- the truth that seems so obvious now. In the first excitement of my discovery, I had assumed without question that this crystalline apparition had been built by some race belonging to the Moon's remote past, but suddenly, and with overwhelming force, the belief came to me that it was as alien to the Moon as I myself. In twenty years we had found no trace of life but a few degenerate plants. No lunar civilization, whatever its doom, could have left but a single token of its existence. I looked at the shining pyramid again, and the more remote it seemed from anything that had to do with the Moon. And suddenly I felt myself shaking with a foolish, hysterical laughter, brought on by excitement and over exertion: for I had imagined that the little pyramid was speaking to me and was saying: "Sorry, I'm a stranger here myself." It has taken us twenty years to crack that invisible shield and to reach the machine inside those crystal walls. What we could not understand, we broke at last with the savage might of atomic power, and now I have seen the fragments of the lovely, glittering thing I found up there on the mountain. They are meaningless. The mechanisms-if indeed they are mechanisms-of the pyramid belong to a technology that lies far beyond our horizon, perhaps to the technology of paraphysical forces. The mystery haunts us all the more now that the other planets have been reached and we know that only Earth has ever been the home of intelligent life in our Solar System. Nor could any lost civilization of our own world have built that machine, for the thickness of the meteoric dust on the plateau has enabled us to measure its age. It was set there upon its mountain before life had emerged from the seas of Earth. When our world was half its present age, something from the stars swept through the Solar System, left this token of its passage, and went again upon its way. Until we destroyed it, that machine was still fulfilling the purpose of its builders; and as to that purpose, here is my guess. Nearly a hundred thousand million stars are turning in the circle of the Milky Way, and long ago other races on the worlds of other suns must have scaled and passed the / Page 27 / heights that we have reached. Think of such civilizations, far back in time against the fading afterglow of Creation, masters of a universe so young that life as yet had come to only a handful of worlds. Theirs would have been a loneliness we cannot imagine, the loneliness of gods looking out across infinity and finding none to share their thoughts. They must have searched the star clusters as we have searched the planets. Everywhere there would be worlds, but they would be empty or peopled with crawling, mindless things. Such was our own Earth, the smoke of the great volcanoes still staining the skies, when that first ship of the peoples of the dawn came sliding in from the abyss beyond Pluto. It passed the frozen outer worlds, knowing that life could play no part in their destinies. It came to rest among the inner planets, warming themselves around the fire of the sun and waiting for their stories to begin. Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favorite of the sun's children. Here, in the distant future would be intelligence; but there were countless stars before them still, and they might never come this way again. So they left a sentinel, one of millions they have scattered throughout the Universe, watching over all worlds with the promise of life. It was a beacon that down the ages has been patiently signaling the fact that no one had discovered it. Perhaps you understand now why that crystal pyramid was set upon the Moon instead of on the Earth. Its builders were not concerned with races still struggling up from savagery. They would be interested in our civilization only if we proved our fitness to survive-by crossing space and so escaping from the Earth, our cradle. That is the challenge that all intelligent races must meet, sooner or later. It is a double challenge, for it depends in turn upon the conquest of atomic energy and the last choice between life and death. Once we had passed. that crisis, it was only a matter of time before we found the pyramid and forced it open. Now its signals have ceased, and those whose duty it is will be turning their minds upon Earth. Perhaps they wish to help our infant civilization. But they must be very, very old; and the old are often insanely jealous of the young. I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the / Page 28 / emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1972 Page 50 ( Chapter 6) THE DAWN OF MAN "During November 1950 I wrote a short story about a meeting in the remote past between visitors from space and a primitive ape-man. An editor at Ballantine Books gave it the ingenious title "Expedition to Earth" when it was published in the book of that name, but I prefer "Encounter in the Dawn." However, when Harcourt, Brace and World brought out my own selection of favorites, The Nine Billion Names of God, it was mysteriously changed to "Encounter at Dawn." There the matter rests at present. Though "Encounter" was not one of the half-dozen stories originally purchased by Stanley,' it greatly influenced my thinking during the early stages of our enterprise. At that time-and indeed until-very much later-we assumed that we wovld actually show-some type of extraterrestrial entity, probably not too far from the human pattern. Even this presented frightful problems of make- up and credibility. The make-up problems could be solved-as Stuart Freeborn later showed with his brilliant work on the ape-men. (To my fury, at the 1969 Academy Awards a special Oscar was presented for make-up-to Planet of the Apes! I wondered, as loudly as possible, whether the Judges had passed over 2001 because they thought we used real apes.) The problem of credibility might be much greater, for there was danger that the result might look like yet another monster movie. After a great deal of experimenting the whole issue was sidestepped, both in the movie and the novel, and there is no doubt that this was the correct solution. But before we arrived at it, it seemed reasonable to / Page 51 / show an actual meeting between ape-men and aliens, and to give far more details of that encounter in the Pleisto- cene, three million years ago. The chapters that follow were our first straightforward attempt to show how ape- men might be trained, with patience, to improve their way of life. It was part of Stanley's genius that he spotted what was missing in this approach. It was too simple minded; worse than that, it lacked the magic he was seeking, as he explained in item 24 of his memorandum, quoted earlier. In the novel, we were finally able to get the effect we wanted by cutting out the details and introducing the super-teaching machine, the monolith-which, even more important, provided the essential linking theme between the different sections of the story. In the film, Stanley was able to produce a far more intense emotional effect by the brilliant use of slow-motion photography, extreme close- ups, and Richard Strauss's Zarathustra. That frozen moment at the beginning of history, when Moon-Watcher, foreshadowing Cain, first picks up the bone and studies it thoughtfully, before waving it to and fro with mounting excitement, never fails to bring tears to my eyes. And it hit me hardest of all when I was sitting behind U Thant and Dr. Ralph Bunche in the Dag Hammarskjold Theater, watching a screening which we had arranged at the Secretary General's request. This, I suddenly realized, is where all the trouble started-and this very building is where we are trying to stop it. Simultaneously, I was struck by the astonishing parallel between the shape of the monolith and the UN Headquarters itself; there seemed something quite uncanny about the coincidence. If it is one. . . . The skull-smashing sequence was the only scene not filmed in the studio; it was shot in a field, a couple of - hundred yards away-the only time Stanley went on location. A small platform had been set up, and Moon-Watcher (Dan Richter) was sitting on this, surrounded by bones. Cars and buses were going by at the end of the field, but as this was a low-angle shot against the sky they didn't get in the way-though Stanley did have to pause for an occasional airplane. The shot was repeated so many times, and Dan smashed so many bones, that I was afraid we were going to run out of wart-hog (or tapir) skulls. But eventually Stanley was satisfied, and as we walked back to the studio he began to throw bones up in the air. At first I thought / Page 52 / this was sheer joi de vivre, but then he started to film them with a hand-held camera-no easy task. Once or twice, one of the large, swiftly descending bones nearly impacted on Stanley as he peered through the viewfinder; if luck had been against us the whole project might have ended then. To misquote Ardrey (page 34), "That intel-ligence would have perished on some forgotten Elstree field." When he had finished filming the bones whirling against, the sky, Stanley resumed the walk back to the studio; but: now he had got hold of a broom, and started tossing that up into the air. Once again, I assumed this exercise was pure fun; and perhaps it was. But that was the genesis of the longest flash-forward in the history of movies-three million years, from bone club to artificial satellite, in a twenty-fourth of a second.
Page 66 9 GIFT FROM THE STARS Jupiter was a brilliant star, almost vertically above him, as Clindar walked through the sleeping bush an hour before dawn. Up there, half a billion miles away, was the entrance of the Star Gate, and the road across the light- years that led to his infinitely more distant home. It was a road with many branches, most of them still unexplored and leading to destinations which were perhaps unimaginable. Down a few of those byways were the lonely civilizations scattered so sparsely throughout this arm of the galactic spiral. One day this world might be among them; but that time could not come for at least a million years. The hominids never left their cave during the hours of darkness, but Clindar could hear them barking and quarreling sleepily as they prepared to meet the new day. He placed his bribe-a young boar-at the foot of the cliff, where they were bound to pass. This time, however, he did not withdraw. He sat down only a few feet away from the sacrifice, and waited. The stars faded from the sky, Jupiter last of all. Presently the rays of the rising sun began to gild the face of the cliff, moving slowly downward until they shone straight into the cave. Then, from the interior, came a sudden excited chattering, and the high-pitched "Eek- Eek" which Clindar had grown to recognize as an alarm signal. The hominids had spotted him. He could see their hairy figures milling around in the entrance, undecided what to do next. If they did not pluck up enough courage to come down in a reasonable time, Clindar would leave. But he would take the boar with him, and hope that they would draw the conclusion that food and friendship were inseparably linked Page 68 To his pleased suprise he did not have long.to wait. Moving slowly but steadily , Moon-watcher was descending the face of the cliff. He got to within twenty feet of ground level and then paused to survey the situation..." "Clindar pulled a knife from his equipment belt, and with rather more energy than skill, started to disjoint the boar. It must, he thought, look like magic to Moon-watcher to see how swiftly the tough meat came apart; he was performing in a few seconds acts which took the homids many minutes of tearing and biting. when he had detached a foreleg, he held it out to his fascinated spectator..." "He was patient, and Moon-Watcher was hungry, but the result was not inevitable..." At last it made its decision, and gathered all its courage together. Still prepared for instant flight, Moon Watcher dropped from the face of the cliff and started to sidle towards Clindar,..." "It took him several minutes, with numerous retreats to and hesitations to cross the last few feet. While he was doing this, Clindar pretended to chew avidly at the leg of boar, holding it out invitingly from time to time. Abruptly it was snatched from his hand, and in seconds Moon-Watcher was half way up the cliff carrying his prize between his teeth. Patiently, Clindar started to slice away at the carcass once more, waiting for the next move. It came when Moon-Watcher returned for a second helping..." "So the experiment in primitive diplomacy continued, day after day - sometimes in the morning before the homids had left ther cave, sometime in the evening as they returned from a days foraging. By the end of the week Clindar had become accepted as an honorary member of the tribe..." To Clindar it was a weird, almost unreal existence this daily switching between two worlds a million years apart..." "Because speech still lay a million years in the future, the only way to instruct these creatures was by example..." Clindar was sooon the most efficient hunter on the planet..." His favourite weapon was the thighbone of one of the larger antelopes; with its knobbly end , it formed a perfect natural club..." "With a single well-placed blow it could kill animals up to the size of the homids themselves, and it could drive off creatures that were far larger. Clindar was anxious to prove this, and had thought of staging a demonstration. As it turned out, his wish was granted him without any deliberate planning..." Page 70 "Clindar held out the second, unbroken club in his right hand, and waited. This was the moment; no better one would ever come. If Moon-Watcher had not learned the lesson now, he would never do so. The hominid came slowly toward him, then squatted down only five feet away; he had never approached so closely before. Holding his head slightly on one side in an attitude of intense concentration, he stared at the bone held rigidly in Clindar's hand. Then he reached out a paw and touched the crude club. His fingers grasped the end, and tugged gently at it. Clindar held firm for a moment, then released his grip. Moon-Watcher drew the bone away from him, looked at it intently, then began to sniff and nibble at it. A spasm of disappointment shot through Clindar's mind; the lesson was already forgotten. This was just another morsel of food-not a key to the future, a tool that could lead to the mastery of this world, and of many others. Then Moon-Watcher suddenly remembered. He jumped to his feet, and began to darice around waving the club in his right paw. As long as he kept moving, he could rear almost upright; only when he stood still did he have to use his free forelimb as a support. He had already begun to make the awesome and irrevocable transition from quadruped to biped. The little dance lasted about five seconds; then Moon-Watcher shot off on a tangent. He raced toward the dead hyena in such a frenzy of excitement that his companions, who had already started to quarrel over the feast, scattered in fright. Awkwardly, but with an energy that made up for his lack of skill, Moon-Watcher began to pound the carcass with his club, while the others looked on with awed astonishment. Clindar alone understood what was happening, and knew that this world had come to a turning point in time. To the most promising of its creatures, he had given the first tool; and the history of yet another race had begun."
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http://www.crystalinks.com/2001z.html '2001: A Space Odyssey' - 'Thus Spake Zarathrustra' ...... Planet Earth 1968 ..... Stanley Kubrick creates a film called '2001 A Space Odyssey'. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is a landmark, science fiction, classic, epic film containing more spectacular imagery than verbal dialogue. It impacts on the viewer and taps into subconscious memories of creation. Though it shows human evolving from ape - the missing link of that evolution is left open. The plot follows a spaceship that crosses the universe, searching for the source of life itself. A link is made to a creational intelligence perhaps linked to human evolution. Again this is linked to a computer that comes into conscious awareness and confusion as to its prime objective. As with all of the themes I have been writing about in Crystalinks - '2001: A Space Odyssey' - is based strongly on mythological metaphors and tales. It is closely linked with the Prometheus myth. The concept of the the pillar sent down from Jupiter is exactly the same as that of Prometheus bring fire to humans. Even the source being Jupiter fits, as Jupiter was the Roman name for Zeus - the leader of the Greek pantheon. Like the Prometheus myth, the gift given to humans proves to be beyond their control. This time it is in the form of a computer, Hal. Hal goes out of control and begins to kill humans, and disobeys all orders given to him. He begins to think for himself. This actually sets the stage for an Odyssey parallel in the form of the visit to the cave of Polyphemus, though this time the roles are reversed. In 2001: 'A Space Odyssey,' the human, Dave, is attempting to get into the ship rather than out of a cave. To do this, he has to use his brute strength versus Hal's genius, a complete reversal of the mythological roles. Nonetheless it it is far too similar to be coincidence. "The breathtaking, - richly eloquent film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace, is based on the short story The Sentinel, by science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke. "Its screenplay was co-authored by director Stanley Kubrick and Clarke from an expanded novelization..."
"In the opening scene - the camera pans upward from the pock-marked surface of the Moon in the foreground. The perspective is from behind the moon. In the distance is a view of the Sun rising over the Earth-crescent in the vastness of space. The image shows the heavenly bodies of the Earth, Moon, and Sun in a vertically-symmetrical alignment or conjunction. Later in the film, it is revealed that a monolith was buried on the Moon, possibly at the moment of this 'magical' conjunction. The opening trinitarian chords [C, G, and again C] of Richard Strauss' 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' accompany and welcome this striking shot of orbital and visual alignment. This music was inspired by the book . . . Thus Spake Zarathrustra. Its five opening notes embody the ascension of man into spheres reserved for the gods. It projects the power of creation and Zarathrustra. The music is associated in the film with the first entry of man's consciousness into the universe - and with the eventual passage of that consciousness onto a new level, symbolized by the Star Child at the end of the film.
The Dawn of Man 'The Dawn of Man' opens in the prehistoric past in the Pleistocene era four million years ago, the location where the human race was supposedly born - evolving from primitive apes. The sun rises on the dawn of civilization in a primordial landscape of arid, wasteland desert. As dawn passes and mid-day approaches on the barren African savannah, animal skeletons lie dormant on the rocky ground - the first sign of life. A peaceful band or tribe of prehistoric ape-men (Australopithecines) appear, squat and hairy, eating grass. Although herds of tapirs graze closeby, the ape-men are vegetarians who forage for grass and roots. They have not developed the means or tools necessary to attack and kill or eat the tapirs like other predators. Symbolically, there are endless eons of time that pass during which the apes live in eternal boredom - and cope with the struggle for survival. A group of apes scratches and chatters in groups around a slowly diminishing watering hole. A rival, warring band of ape competitors approaches the watering hole, led by an almost-upright, tall and bright man-ape named Moonwatcher in Arthur Clarke's novel. By shrieking, they scare away the other apes from the water and aggressively establish dominance and territoriality. During the first night, a leopard with glowing eyes guards the carcass of a fallen zebra in the moonlight. The band of vegetarian man-pes huddles protectively together in their cramped den for comfort and support - living and sleeping in fear. In the first light of the prehistoric dawn on the second day, a tall, black, rectangular monolithic slab, with an eerie humming sound - symbolic of the religious/spiritual unknown - materializes in the midst of their den. The massive artificial monolith, in contrast to its natural surroundings, stands in a shallow depression in the rocks where the man-apes gather around a water hole. In Arthur Clarke's novel, the monolith is a technological machine belonging to aliens in space, one of hundreds of such monoliths sent to Earth to test, teach and transform the apes into higher-order beings. The unusual, out-of-place object with straight-edges causes them to be alarmed and they react nervously. They approach it cautiously, drawn to its color, form, and smooth surface. The leader of the clan of man-apes is the first to reach out fearfully and hypnotically for the black object. His boldness encourages the rest of the group to gather around. In a mute, primitive, but poetic moment, they herd around it and huddle by it, just as another celestial alignment or configuration occurs. With the mysterious monolith in the foreground, the glowing Sun rises over the black slab, directly beneath the crescent of the Moon A quick, almost-subliminal shot of the celestial alignment with the monolith is flashed on the screen - indicating that it will inspire a new idea or cause what is to happen the discovery that the bone can function as a weapon. In a slow-motion sequence - accompanied by the slowly-building tone of Strauss's Thus Spoke Zarathustra - he picks up an animal bone and uses it to smash at and shatter the skeleton, first tentatively and then more vigorously. In a slow-motion closeup, his hairy fist grasps the skeleton bone over his head as he brings it down forcefully like a cudgel. As he smashes and pulverizes parts of the skeleton on the ground, the soundtrack bursts forth in an ecstatic, jubilant climax. In one brilliant inter-cut image, a tapir falls to the ground - the vegetarian man-ape will be able to hunt for food and kill a tapir with his new utilitarian tool. No longer vegetarian after the breakthrough, the man-ape becomes carnivorous, squatting while eating a raw piece of tapir flesh in his hands. The rest of the clan share in the meat of the fresh kill later that afternoon and evening. Somehow, the monolith has been presented as a gift to mysteriously assist the man-ape in his transition to a higher order (or lower order depending upon one's interpretation) with an ability to reason and the power to use tools (such as bones) - for murder. The man-ape is on the verge of intelligence - the beginning of steps toward humanity as he learns to use skeleton bones as tools - extending his reach. The sun sets. On the third day, when other man-apes come over to the water hole, the intelligent, carnivorous man-apes dominate and drive the weaponless (and tool-less) neighboring creatures away with their newfound strike power - this is humanity's first bloody war. They swing with their bone-tools - using them as weapons to threaten the nearest other tribe of rival proto-humans. The leader man-ape uses the bone to attack, crush an opponent's skull, and kill him - making them capable of survival in the hostile environment. The 'enlightened' apes gain domination in the animal world, establish their territorial domain, and take an evolutionary step or leap toward (or away from) humanity. In slow-motion, the man-ape leader flings his weapon, a fragmented piece of the bone, exultantly and jubilantly into the air. It flies and spins upwards, twisting and turning end-over-end. Four millions years later . . . The tossed bone (tool/weapon) instantly rotates and dissolves into an orbiting space satellite from Earth - a technological instrument, tool, or machine from another era that was ultimately derived from the first tool-weapon. The toss of the ape-man's bone is metaphoric for a lift-off from Earth toward the Moon, and for the tremendous technological advances that have occurred in the interim. The year 2000 - the Earth drifts by, the camera's perspective is from somewhere between Earth and the Moon. Two different kinds of satellites (one slightly rectangular, the other cylindrical) float by, circling around the globe of Earth." "Dave, the last surviving astronaut, escapes HAL's coolly-plotted machinations and manages to dismantle him. Dave then continues the odyssey alone. In the end, Dave is captured in an inter-galactic net, apparently by the makers of the slab. We find him facing himself as an old man, sitting in a room on the other side of the universe. No explanations are given. The huge embryo comes on the screen, and the film ends." "The 'star gate' sequence is a sound and light journey"
THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1972 Page179 "I'm afraid," he said, "that there's something seriously wrong with space." "A long time ago," said Kaminski, "I came across a remark that I've never forgotten-though I can't remember who made it. 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' That's what we're up against here. Our lasers and mesotrons and nuclear reactors and neutrino telescopes would have seemed pure magic to the best scientists of the nineteenth century. But they could have understood how they worked-more or less- if we were around to explain the theory to them." "I'd be glad to settle without the theory," remarked Kimball, "if I could even understand what this thing is-or what it's supposed to do." "It seems to me," said Bowman, "that there are two possibilities-both just about equally impossible. The first is that Jupiter V is hollow-and there's some kind of micro-universe down there. A whole galaxy a hundred miles across." "But the probes went thousands of miles, according to the radar readings," "There could be some kind of distortion. Suppose the probes got smaller and smaller as they went in. Then they might seem to be thousands of miles away, when they were still really quite close." "And that," said Kaminski, "reminds me of another quotation-one of Niels Bohr's. 'Your theory is crazy- but not crazy enough to be true.' " "You have a crazier one?" asked Hunter. "Yes, I do. I think the stars-and that sun down there- are part of our own universe, but we're seeing them through some new direction of space." "I suppose you mean the fourth dimension." "I doubt if it's anything as simple as that. But it probably does involve higher dimensions of some kind. Perhaps non-Euclidean ones." "I get the idea. If you went down that hole, you'd come out hundreds or thousands of light-years away. But how long would the journey really be?" "How long is the journey from New York to Washington? Two hundred miles if you fly south. But twenty-four / Page 180 / thousand if you go in the other direction, over the North Pole. Both directions are equally real." "I seem to remember," said Bowman, "that back on Earth you once told me that shortcuts through space-time were scientific nonsense-pure fantasy." "Did I?' replied Kaminski, unabashed. "Well, I've changed my mind. Though I reserve the right to change it back again, if a better theory comes along." "I'm a simpleminded engineer," said Hunter rather aggressively. "I see a hole going into Jupiter V, and not coming out anywhere. But you tell me that it does come out. How?" " Everyone waited hopefully for Kaminski to answer. For a moment he hemmed and hawed; then he suddenly brightened. "I can only explain by means of analogy. Suppose you were a Flatlander, an inhabitant of a two-dimensional world like a sheet of paper-unable to move above or below it. If I drew a circle in your flat world, but left a small gap in it, you would say that the gap was the only way into the circle. Right?" ".Right." "If anyone went into the circle, they could only come out the same way?" . "So that's what you're driving at. The circle could be a cross-section of a tube passing through Flatland. If I was clever enough to crawl up the tube, by moving into the third dimension, I would leave my flat universe altogether." "Exactly. But the tube might bend back into Flatland again, and you could come out somewhere else. To your friends, it would seem that you'd traveled from A to B without crossing the space between. You'd have disappeared down one hole and emerged from a totally different one, maybe thousands of miles awav." "But what advantage would that be? Surely the straight line in Flatland itself would still be the shortest distance between A and B." "Not necessarily. It depends what you mean by a straight line. Flatland might really be wrinkled, though the Flatlanders wouldn't be able to detect it. I'm not a topologist, but I can see how there might be lines that were straighter than straight, if some of them went through other dimensions."
MATHEMATICS AND THE IMAGINATION Edward Kasner and James Newman 1940 Page 127 "Now, if a third dimension is essential for the solution of certain two -dimensional problems, a fourth dimension would make possible the solution of otherwise unsolvable problems of three dimensions. To be sure, we are in the realm of fancy, and it need hardly be pointed out that a fourth dimension is not at hand to make Houdinisof us all. Yet, in theoretical inquiries, a fourth dimension 33 and 34 (omitted) Page 128 is of signal importance, and part of the warp and woof of modern theoretical physics and mathematics. Ex-amples chosen from these subjects are quite difficult and would be out of place, but some simpler ones in the lower dimensions may prove amusing. If we lived in a two-dimensional world, so graphically described by Abbott in his famous romance, Flatland, our house would be a plane figure, as in Fig. 34. Entering through the door at A, we would be safe from our friends and enemies once the door was closed, even though there were no roof over our head, and the walls and windows were merely lines. To climb over these lines would mean getting out of the plane into a third dimension, and of course, no one in the two-dimensional world would have any better idea of how to do that than we know how to escape from a locked safe..deposit vault by means of a fourth dimension. A three-dimensional cat might peek at a two-dimensional king, but he would never be the wiser. When winter comes to Flatland, its inhabitants wear gloves. Three-dimensional hands look like this: Page 129 (figure omitted) Page 130 Mathematics and the Imagination Modern science has as yet devised no relief for the man who finds himself with two right gloves instead of a right and a left. In Flatland, the same prqblem would exist. But there, Gulliver, looking down at its inhabitants from the eminence of a third dimension would see at once that, just as in the case of the two triangles on page 127, all that is necessary to turn a right glove into a left one is to lift it up and turn it over. Of course, no one in Flatland would or could lift a fInger to do that, since it involves an extra dimension. If then, we could be transported into a fourth dimen-sion, there is no end to the miracles we could perform- starting with the rehabilitation of all ill-assorted pairs of gloves. Lift the right glove from three-dimensional space into a fourth dimension, turn it around, bring it back and it becomes a left glove. No prison cell could hold the four-dimensional Gulliver-far more of a men-ace than a mere invisible man. Gulliver could take a knot and untie it without touching the ends or breaking it, merely by transporting it into a fourth dimension and slipping the solid cord through the extra loophole. Or he might take two links of a chain apart without breaking them. All. this and much more would seem absurdly simple to him, and he would regard our help-lessness with the same amusement and pity as we look upon the miserable creatures of Flatland. Our romance must end. If it has aided some readers in making a fourth dimension more real and has satisfied a common anthropomorphic thirst, it-has served its pur-pose. For our own part, we confess that the fables have never made the facts any clearer. An idea originally associated with ghosts and spirits / Page 131 / needs, if it is to serve science, to be as far removed as possible from fuzzy thinking. It must be clearly and courageously faced if its true essence is to be discovered. But it is even more stupid to reject and deride than to glorify and enshrine it. No concept that has come out of our heads or pens marked a greater forward step in our thinking, no idea of religion, philosophy, or science broke more sharply with tradition and commonly accepted knowledge, than the idea of a fourth dimension. Eddington has put it very well: 6 However successful the theory of a four-dimensional world may be, it is difficult to ignore a voice inside us which whispers: "At the back of your mind, you know that a fourth dimension is all nonsense." I fancy that voice must often have had a busy time in the past history of physics. What nonsense to say that this solid table on which I am writing is a collection of electrons moving with prodigious speed in empty spaces, which relatively to electronic dimensions are as wide as the spaces between the planets in the solar system! What nonsense to say that the thin air is trying to crush my body with a load of 14 lbs. to the square inch! What nonsense that the star cluster which I see through the telescope, obviously there now, is a glimpse into a past age 50,000 years ago! Let us not be beguiled by this voice. It is discredited. . . . We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the un-known. We have devised profound theories, one after another to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in !econ- structing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. We have emphasized the fact that pure geometry is divorced from the physical space which we perceive about us, and we are now prepared to tackle an idea which is slightly tougher. There is no harm, however / Page 132 / in first distinguishing somewhat differently than before between space as it is ordinarily conceived and the space manifolds of mathematics. Perhaps this distinction will help to make our new concept-the non-Euclidean geometries-seem less strange. We are quite used to thinking of space as infinite, not in the technical mathematical sense of infinite classes, but simply meaning that space is boundless--without end. To be sure, experience teaches us nothing of the kind. The boundaries of a private citizen rarely go much further than the end of his right arm. The boundaries of a nation, as bootleggers once learned, do not go beyond the twelve-mile limit. Most of what we believe about the infinitude of space comes to us by hearsay, and another part comes from what we think we see. Thus, the stars look as if they were millions of miles away, although on a dark night a candle half a mile off would give the same impression. Moreover, if we imagined ourselves the size of atoms, a pea at a distance of one inch would appear mightier and far more distant than the sun. '];'he distinction between the space of the individual and "public space" soon becomes apparent. Our personal knowledge of space does not show it to be either infinite, homogeneous, or isotropic. We do not know it to be infinite because we crawl, hop, and fly around in only tiny portions. We do not know it to be homogeneous because a skyscraper in the distance seems much smaller than the end of our nose; and the feather on the hat of the lady in front of us shuts off our vision of the cinema screen. And we know it is not isotropic, that is, it "does not possess the same properties in every direction," 7 because there are blind spots in our vision and our sense : / Page 133 / of sight is never equally good in all directions. The notion of physical or "public" space which we abstract from our individual experience is intended to free us from our personal limitations. We say physicaJ space is infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, and Euclidean. These compliments are readily paid to an ideal entity about which very litde is actually known. If we were to ask the physicist or astronomer, "What do you think about space?" he might reply: "In order to carry out experimental measurements and describe them with the greatest convenience, the physical scientist decides upon certain conventions with respect to his measuring appa- ratus and operations performed with it. These are, strictly speaking, conventions with regard to Physical objects and Physical operations. However, for practical purposes, it is convenient to assume for them a generality beyond any particular set of objects or operations. They then become, as we say, properties of space. That is what is meant by physical space, which we may define, in brief, as the abstract construct possessing those properties of rigid bodies that are independent of their material content. Physical space is that on which almost the whole of physics is based, and it is, of course, the space of everyday affairs." 8 On the other hand, the spaces, or more generally the manifolds, which the mathematician considers are con- structed without any reference to physical operations, such as measurement. They possess only those properties expressed in the postulates and axioms of the particular geometry in question, as well as those properties deducible from them. I t may well be that the postulates are themselves suggested, in part or in whole, by the physical space of / Page 134 / our experience, but they are to be regarded as full-grown and independent. If experiments were to show that some, or all, of our ideas about physical space are wrong (as the theory of relativity has, in fact, done) we would have to rewrite our texts on physics, but not our geometries. But this approach to the concept of space, as well as to geometry, is comparatively recent. There has been no more sweeping movement in the entire history of science than the development of non-Euclidean geometry, a movement which shook to the foundations the age-old belief that Euclid had dispensed eternal truths. Compe-tent and accurate as a measuring tool since Egyptian times, intuitively appealing and full of common sense, sanctified and cherished as one of the richest of intel- lectual legacies from Greece, the geometry of Euclid stood for more than twenty centuries in lone, resplendent, and irreproachable majesty. It was truly hedged by divinity, and if God, as Plato said, ever geometrized, he surely looked to Euclid for the rules. The mathematicians who occasionally had doubts soon expiated their heresy by votive offerings in the form of further proofs in corroboration of Euclid. Even Gauss, the "Prince of Mathematicians," dared not offer his criticisms for fear of the vulgar abuse of the "Boethians." Whence came the doubts? Whence the inspiration of those who dared profane the temple? Were not the postu- lates of Euclid self-evident, plain as the light of day? And the theorems as unassailable as that two plus two equals four? The center of the ever-increasing storm, which finally broke in the nineteenth century was the famous fifth pos-tulate about parallel lines. Assorted Geometries-Plane and Fancy This postulate may be restated as follows: "Through / Page 135 / any point in the plane, there is one, and only one, line parallel to a given line." There is some evidence to show that Euclid, himself, did not regard this postulate as "quite so self-evident" as his others.9 Philosophers and mathematicians, intent on vindicating him, attempted to show that it was really a theorem and thus deducible from his premises. All of " iliese attempts failed for the very good reason which Eu- clid, much wiser than those who followed him, had al- ready recognized, namely, that the fifth postulate was merely an assumption and hence could not be mathe- matically proved. More than two thousand years after Euclid, a German, a Russian, and a Hungarian came to shatter two in- disputable "facts." The first, that space obeyed Euclid; the second, that Euclid obeyed space. Gauss we credit on faith. Not knowing the extent of his investigations, in deference to his greatness as well as to his integrity, we are hospitable to his statement that he had independently arrived at conclusions resembling those of the Hungarian, I Bolyai, some years before Bolyai's father informed Gauss I of his son's work. Lobachevsky, the Russian, and Bolyai, both in the 1830's, presented to the very apathetic scientific world their remarkable theories. They argued that the trouble-; making postulate could not be proved, could not be I deduced from the other axioms, because it was only a postulate. Any other hypothesis about parallels could be substituted in its place, and a different geometry-just as consistent and just as "true"- would follow. All the other postulates of Euclid were to be retained, only, in place of the fifth, a substitution was to be made:
Arthur C. Clarke 1972 "I can only explain by means of analogy. Suppose you were a Flatlander, an inhabitant of a two-dimensional world like a sheet of paper-unable to move above or below it. If I drew a circle in your flat world, but left a small gap in it, you would say that the gap was the only way into the circle. Right?" ".Right." "If anyone went into the circle, they could only come out the same way?" . "So that's what you're driving at. The circle could be a cross-section of a tube passing through Flatland. If I was clever enough to crawl up the tube, by moving into the third dimension, I would leave my flat universe altogether." "Exactly. But the tube might bend back into Flatland again, and you could come out somewhere else. To your friends, it would seem that you'd traveled from A to B without crossing the space between. You'd have disappeared down one hole and emerged from a totally different one, maybe thousands of miles awav." "But what advantage would that be? Surely the straight line in Flatland itself would still be the shortest distance between A and B." "Not necessarily. It depends what you mean by a straight line. Flatland might really be wrinkled, though the Flatlanders wouldn't be able to detect it. I'm not a topologist, but I can see how there might be lines that were straighter than straight, if some of them went through other dimensions." "We can argue this-until kingdom come," said Hunter. "But supposing it's true-what shall we do about it?'
/ Page 181 / "There's not much we can do. Even if we had an unlimited fuel and oxygen supply, it might be suicide to go into that thing. Though it may be a shortcut, it could be a damn long one. Suppose it comes out somewhere a thousand light-years away-that won't help us, if the trip takes a century. We wouldn't appreciate saving nine hundred years." That was perfectly true; and there might be other dangers, as inconceivable to the mind of man as this anomaly in space itself. Discovery had come to the end of her travels; she must remain here in an eternal orbit, just a few miles from a mystery that she could never approach. Like Moses looking into the promised land, they must stare at marvels beyond their reach. Page188 34 THE WORLDS OF THE STAR GATE "A writer who sets out to describe a civilization superior to his own is obviously attempting the impossible. A glance at the science fiction of fifty--or even twenty-years ago shows how futile it is to peer even a little way into the mists of time, and when dealing merely with the world of men. Longer-range anticipations are clearly even less likely to be successful; imagine what sort of forecast one of the Pilgrim Fathers could have made of the United States in the year 1970! Practically nothing in his picture would have had any resemblance to the reality-which, in fact, would have been virtually incomprehensible to him. But Stanley Kubrick and I were attempting, at the climax of our Odyssey, something even more outrageous. We had to describe--and to show on the screen-the activities and environments, and perhaps the physical nature, of creatures millions of years ahead of man. This was, by definition, impossible. One might as well expect Moon-Watcher to give a lucid description of David Bowman and his society. Obviously, the problem had to be approached indirectly. Even if we showed any extraterrestrial creatures and their habitats, they would have to be fairly near us on the evolutionary scale--say, not more than a couple of centuries ahead. They could hardly be the three-million-year- old entities who were the powers behind the Black Monolith and the Star Gate. But we certainly had to show something, though there were moments of despair when I feared we had painted ourselves into a corner from which there was no possible escape-except perhaps a "Lady or the Tiger" ending / Page189 / where we said goodbye to our hero just as he entered the Star Gate. That would have been the lazy way out, and would have started people queuing at the box office to get their money back. (As Jerry Agel has recorded,' at least one person did just this-a Mrs. Patricia Attard of Denver, Colorado. If the manager of the handsome Cooper Cinerama did oblige, I shall be happy to reimburse him.) Our ultimate solution now seems to me the only possible one, but before arriving at it we spent months imagining strange worlds and cities and creatures, in the hope of finding something that would produce the right shock of recognition. All this material was abandoned, but I would not say that any of it was unnecessary. It contained the alternatives that had to be eliminated, and therefore first had to be created. Some of these Lost Worlds of the Star Gate are in the pages that follow. In working on them, I was greatly helped by two simple precepts. The first is due to Miss MaryPoppins: "I never explain anything." The other is Clarke's Third* Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." . Stanley once claimed if anything could be written, he could film it. I am prepared to believe him-if he was given unlimited time and budget. However, as we were eventually a year and four million dollars over estimate, it was just as well that the problem of creating explicit super-civilizations was by-passed. There are things that are better left to the imagination-which is why so many 'horror' movies collapse when some pathetic papier-mache monster is finally revealed. Stanley avoided this danger by creating the famousm "psychedelic" sequence-or, as MGM eventually called it, "the ultimate trip." I am assured, by experts, that this is best appreciated under the influence of various chemicals, but do not intend to check this personally. It was certainly not conceived that way, at least as far as Stanley and I were concerned, though I would not presume to speak for all the members of the art and special-effects departments. I raise this subject because some interested parties have *Oh, very well. The First: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he says it is impossible, he is very probably wrong." (Profiles of the Future) The Second: "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." I decided that if three laws were good enough for Newton, they were good enough for me. Page 192 REUNION Of the Clindar who had walked on Earth, in another dawn, three million years ago, not a single atom now remained; yet though the body had been worn away and rebuilt times beyond number, it was no more than a temporary garment for the questing intelligence that it housed. It had been remodeled into many strange forms, for unusual missions, but always it had reverted to the basic humanoid design. As for the memories and emotions of those three million years, spent on more than a thousand worlds, not even the most efficient storage system could hold them all in one brain. But they were available at a moment's notice, filed away in the immense memory vault that ringed the planet. Whenever he wished, Clindar could relive any portion of his past, in total recall. He could look again upon a flower or an insect that had fleetingly caught his eye ten thousand years before, hear the voice of creatures that had been extinct for ages, smell the winds of worlds that had long since perished in the funeral pyres of their own suns. Nothing was lost to him-if he wished to recall it. So when the signal had come in, and while the golden ship was being prepared for its journey, he had gone to the Palace of the Past and let his ancient memories flow back into his brain. Now it seemed that only yesterday- not three million years ago-he had hunted with the ape-men and shown Moon-Watcher how to find the stones that could be used as knives and clubs. "They are awake," said a quiet voice in the depths of his brain. "They are moving around inside their Ship." That was good; at .least they were alive. The robot's / Page 193 / first report had indicated a ship of the dead, and it had been some time before the truth was realized. They were going to have a surprise, thought Clindar, when they woke so far from home, and he hoped they would appreciate it. There were few things that an immortal welcomed and valued more greatly than surprise; when there was none left in the universe, it would be time to die. He walked slowly across the varying landscape of his little world, savoring this moment-for each of these encounters was unique, and each contributed something new to the pattern and the purpose of his life. Though he was alone upon this floating rock, unknown myriads of others were looking through his eyes and sharing his sensations, and myriads more would do so in the ages yet to come. Most of them would approximately share his shape, for this was a meeting that chiefly concerned those intelligences that could be called humanoid. But there would be not a few much stranger creatures watching, and many of them were his friends. To all these multiformed spectators he flashed a wry greeting-an infinitely complex and subtle variation on the universal jest that could be crudely expressed in the words, "I know all humanoids look the same-but I shall be the one on the right." This sky-rock was not Clindar's only home, but it was the one he loved the best, for it was full of memories that needed no revival in the Palace of the Past. He had shared it thirty thousand years ago with a mating group long since dispersed through the Galaxy, and the radiance of those days still lingered, like the soft caress of the eternal dawn. And because it was far from the shattering impact of the great centers of civilization, it was a perfect place to greet and reassure startled or nervous visitors. They were awed, but not overwhelmed; puzzled, but not alarmed. Seeing only Clindar, they were unaware of the forces and potentialities focused within him; they would know of these things when the time was ripe, or not at all. The upper surface of the great rock was divided into three levels, with the villa at the highest end, and the flat apron of the landing stage at the lowest. Between them, and occupying more than half the total area, were the lawns and pools and courtyards and groves of trees among which Clindar had scattered the souvenirs of a thousand worlds and a hundred civilizations. ��TWO EYES YOU ARE TWO EYES YOU BE I SEE YOU ARE 2 WISE FOR ME
HOLY BIBLE Scofield References ZECHARIAH Page 968 Chapter 4. B.C.519 Verse 10 " For who hath despisd the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth. "
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"16. On the Rampage. Pip. and off the Rampage. Pip; such is Life! [Joe Gargery.] Great Expectations, ch. 15"
27 " 'Yes, I have a pair of eyes,' replied Sam, 'and that's just it, If they wos a pair o' patent double million magni-fyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door; but bein' only eyes, you see my wision's limited,' " Charles Dickens 1812-1870
NUMBER 9 THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE Cecil Balmond 1998 Cycles and Patterns Page165 The essence of mathematics is to look for patterns. "Our minds seem to be organised to search for relationships and sequences. We look for hidden orders. These intuitions seem to be more important than the facts themselves, for there is always the thrill at finding something, a pattern, it is a discovery - what was unknown is now revealed. Imagine looking up at the stars and finding the zodiac! Suddenly the counters fall into place and a connection is found, not necessarily a geometric one, but a relationship between numbers, pictures of the mind, that were not obvious before. There is that excitement of finding order in something that was otherwise hidden. And there is the knowledge that a huge unseen world lurks behind the facades we see of the numbers themselves."
IN SEARCH OF SCHRODINGER'S CAT John Gribbin 1984 NOTHING IS REAL Page 1 "The cat of our tide is a mythical beast, but Schrodinger was a real person. Erwin Schrodinger was an Austrian scientist instrumental in the development, in the mid-1920s, of the equations of a branch of science now known as quantum mechanics. Branch of science is hardly the correc{ expression, however, because quantum mechanics provides the fundamental underpinning of all of modern science. The equations describe the behavior of very small objects-generally speaking, the size of atoms or smaller-and they provide the only understanding of the world of the very small. Without these equations, physicists would be unable to design working nuclear power stations (or bombs), build lasers, or explain how the sun stays hot. Without quantum mechanics, chemistry would still be in the Dark Ages, and there would be no science of molecular biology-no under-standing of DNA, no genetic engineering-at all. Quantum theory represents the greatest achievement of science, far more significant and of far more direct, prac-tical use than relativity theory. And yet, it makes some very strange predictions. The world of quantum mechanics is so strange, indeed, that even Albert Einstein found it in-comprehensible, and refused to accept all of the implica- tions of the theory developed by Schrodinger and his colleagues. Einstein, and many other scientists, found it more comfortable to believe that the equations of quantum mechanics simply represent some sort of mathematical trick, which just happens to give a reasonable working guide to the behavior of atomic and subatomic particles but that conceals some deeper truth that corresponds more closely to our everyday sense of reality. For what quantum mechanics says is that nothing is real and that we cannot say anything about what things are doing when we are not looking at them. Schrodinger's mythical cat was invoked to make the differences between the quantum world and the everyday world clear. In the world of quantum mechanics, the laws of phys- ics that are familiar from the everyday world no longer work. Instead, events are governed by probabilities. A radio-active atom, for example, might decay, emitting an electron, say; or it might not. It is possible to set up an experiment in such a way that there is a precise fifty-fifty chance that one of the atoms in a lump of radioactive material will decay in a certain time and that a detector will register the decay if it does happen. Schrodinger, as upset as Einstein about the implications of quantum theory, tried to show the absurdity of those implications by imagining such an experiment set up in a closed room, or box, which also contains a live cat and a phial of poison, so arranged that if the radioactive decay does occur then the poison container is broken and the cat dies. In the everyday world, there is a fifty-fifty chance that the cat will be killed, and without looking in- side the box we can say, quite happily, that the cat inside is either dead or alive. But now we encounter the strangeness of the quantum world. According to the theory, neither of the two possibilities open to the radioactive material, and therefore to the cat, has any reality unless it is observed. The atomic decay has neither happened nor not happened, the cat has neither been killed nor not killed, until we look / Page 3 / inside the box to see what has happened. Theorists who accept the pure version of quantum mechanics say that the cat exists in some indeterminate state, neither dead nor alive, until an observer looks into the box to see how things are getting on. Nothing is real unless it is observed. The idea was anathema to Einstein, among others. "God does not play dice," he said, referring to the theory that the world is governed by the accumulation of outcomes of essentially random "choices" of possibilities at the quan- tum level. As for the unreality of the state of Schrodinger's cat, he dismissed it, assuming that there must be some un- derlying "clockwork" that makes for a genuine fundamen- tal reality of things. He spent many years attempting to devise tests that might reveal this underlying reality at work but died before it became possible actually to' carry out such a test. Perhaps it is as well that he did not live to see the outcome of one line of reasoning that he initiated. In the summer of 1982, at the University of Paris- South, in France, a team headed by Alain Aspect completed a series of experiments designed to detect the underlying reality below the unreal world of the quantum. The under- lying reality-the fundamental clockwork-had been given the name "hidden variables," and the experiment con- cerned the behavior of two photons or particles of light fly- ing off in opposite directions from a source. It is described fully in Chapter Ten, but in essence it can be thought of as a test of reality. The two photons from the same source can be observed by two detectors, which measure a property called polarization. According to quantum theory, this prop- erty does not exist until it is measured. According to the hidden-variable idea, each photon has a "real" polarization from the moment it is created. Because the two photons are emitted together, their polarizations are correlated with one another. But the nature of the correlation that is actually measured is different according to the two views of reality. The results of this crucial experiment are unam- biguous. The kind of correlation predicted by hidden- variable theory is not found; the kind of correlation pre- dicted by quantum mechanics is found, and what is more, again as predicted by quantum theory, the measurement / Page 4 / that is made on one photon has an instantaneous effect on the nature of the other photon. Some interaction links the two inextricably, even though they are flying apart at the speed of light, and relativity theory tells us that no signal can travel faster than light. The experiments prove that there is no underlying reality to the world. "Reality," in the everyday sense, is not a good way to think about the be-havior of the fundamental particles that make up the uni- verse; yet at the same time those particles seem to be inseparably connected into some indivisible whole, each aware of what happens to the others.
The search for Schrodinger's cat was the search for quantum reality. From this brief outline, it may seem that the search has proved fruitless, since there is no reality in the everyday sense of the word. But this is not quite the end of the story, and the search for Schrodinger's cat may lead us to a new understanding of reality that transcends, and yet includes, the conventional interpretation of quantum mechanics. The trail is a long one, however, and it begins with a scientist who would probably have been even more horrified than Einstein if he could have seen the answers we now have to the questions he puzzled over. Isaac New- ton, studying the nature of light three centuries ago, could have had no conception that he was already on the trail - leading to Schrodinger's cat."
SUPERNATURE Lyall Watson 1974 Edition Page 97 "Sound, of course, is a vibration that can be conducted only through an elastic medium; it cannot travel through a vac-uum. Electromagnetic waves do travel through free space, and we know far less about factors governing their resonance. There is however, one quite extraordinary piece of evidence which suggests that shape could be important in receiving even cosmic stimuli. It comes from those favourites of mystics throughout the ages-the pyramids of Egypt. 'The most celebrated are those at Giza built during the fourth. dynasty of which the largest is the one that housed the pharaoh Khufu, better known as Cheops. This is now called the Great Pyramid Some years ago it was visited by a French-man named Bovis, who took refuge from the midday sun in the pharaoh's chamber, which is situated at the center of the pyramid, exactly one third of the way up from the base He found it unusually humid there,but what really surprised / Page 98 9 x 8 = 72 7 + 2 = 9 / him were the garbage cans that contained, among the usual tourist litter,the bodies of a dead cat and some small desert animals that had wandered into the pyramid. Page 98 9 x 8 = 72 "Bovis made an accurate scale model of the Cheops pyramid and placed it like the original with the base lines,facing precisely north-south east-west. Inside the model one third of the way up, he put a dead cat. It became mummified and he concluded that the pyramid promoted rapid dehy-dration."
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Lewis Carroll "A boat, beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of july- Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing ear, Pleased a simple tale to hear- Long has paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories fade: Autumn frosts have slain july. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?
THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE Arthur Eddington 1932 THE UNIVERSE AND THE ATOM Page 99 "For whatever embodies this comparison unit is ipso facto the space of physics. Physical space therefore cannot be featureless. As a matter of geo-metrical terminology features of space are described as curvatures (including hypercurvatures); as already ex- plained, no metaphysical implication of actual bending in new dimensions is intended. We have therefore no option but to look for the natural standard of length among the radii of curvature or hypercurvature of space-time.To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic-like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable 'charac- teristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.
ALICES ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Lewis Carroll "I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only knew the right way to change them-' when she was a litde startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good- natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect. 'Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice,and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where-' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. '-so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation. 'Oh, you're sure to do that;' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.' Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. 'What sort of people live about here?' 'In that direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, 'lives a Hatter: and in that direction,' waving the other paw, 'lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.' 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you ca'n't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat; 'or you wouldn't have come here.' .Alice didn't think that proved it at all: however, she went on, , And how do you know that you're mad?' 'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant that?' 'I suppose so,' said Alice. Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see a dog growls when it's angry, and :wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry therefore I'm mad.'I call it purring, not growling, said Alice. Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play croquet with the Queen to-day?' Ishould like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't been invited yet.' You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished. .. Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used i to queer things happening. While she was looking at the place~ where it had been, it suddenly appeared again. . 'By-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the Cat. ' I'd nearly forgotten to ask.' 'I t turned into a pig,' Alice quietly said, just as if it had come back in a natural way. 'I thought it would,' said the Cat, and vanished again. Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in which the March Hare was said to live. 'I've seen hatters before,' she said to herself; 'the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps, as this is May, it won't be raving mad-at least not so mad as it was in March.' As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree. 'Did you say pig, or fig?' said the Cat. 'I said pig,' replied Alice; 'and I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.' 'All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. Page 64 'Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice; 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!' she had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house, because the chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur. It was so large a house, that she did not like to go nearer till she had nibbled some more of the left-hand bit of mushroom, and raised herself to about two feet high: even then she walked up towards it rather timidly, saying to herself' Suppose it should be raving mad after all! I almost wish I'd gone to see the Hatter instead!'..." THE COSMIC CODE QUANTUM PHYSICS AS THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE Heinz Pagels 1982 THE ROAD TO QUANTUM REALITY Page160 "You ruled out real nonlocal influences because each " record was truly 'random.' " Ask the mathematicians," came the reply. "They don't know what randomness is," says the heckler. "Neither do I," says the local reality salesman. "But true randomness is unbeatable, which in this case means it will always defeat you if you try to detect real nonlocal influences. 'There's no randomness like quantum randomness." The crowd begins to drift out of the Objective Reality Shop toward the Local Reality Shop, led by the salesman, who is feeling rather good after his speech. Someone is asking why he is so critical of the occultists and pseudoscientists, and he begins a little story. "When I was ten I became fascinated with magic. I learned simple card tricks, built apparatus, and bought magic tricks from mail-order catalogues. The opportunity to perform magic came at friends' birthday parties or holiday occasions, and it was a polished magic show. As a magician and enter- tainer I responded to the interests of the audience. What struck me was the difference in the response to magic tricks by children and adults. The adults accepted the tricks as entertainment; they wanted to be fooled. Not the children. Their capacity for the suspension of belief was not developed- they wanted to know how the tricks were done. For them it wasn't entertainment; it was a violation of their trust in physi-cal reality. "A real magician makes no claim to violate physical laws; he only appears to do so. However, when pseudoscientists make claims to discover dramatic new phenomena, going beyond current physical theory, like telepathy or mental metal bending, then, like children, we must insist on seeing how the trick is done or as adults sit back and enjoy the entertainment. " As we enter the Local Reality Shop we see it is already quite crowded with lots of physicists and others who swear by the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory only be- cause their heroes, Bohr and Heisenberg, invented it. The salesman who broke up the discussion in the other shop and led us here clearly is the merchant of this one. As the crowd thickens he begins his sales pitch. "The basis of physics," he begins, "indeed the whole of science, is predicated on the principle of local causality-that / Page 161 / material events occurring in a region of space are due to adjacent material events. How can we have a science if an event on the other side of the universe is instantaneously influencing events here now? Quantum theory obeys the prin-ciple of local causality, If we accept this principle, then we have to take a hard look at what is meant by objectivity-the assumption that the microworld has a definite state of exis- tence like the macroworld. Scientists are accustomed to think- ing in terms of what we actually know to be true about the world, not what we fantasize, and the microworld is a fantasy if 'we are not actually observing it. Until measurements are actually performed you cannot even talk about the objective properties of things. Physicists all accept that, and I urge you to accept it also." "But doesn't this imply reality is observer-determined?" someone in the audience questions. "What kind of reality is that?" "True enough," says the merchant, "but we only have to worry about the observer-determined reality for quantum- sized objects. Of course, quantum-level events influence the macroscopic world-that was the point of Schrodinger's cat- and therefore it seems that the quantum weirdness leaks out into the world of ordinary objects. But that is pushing the Copenhagen interpretation too far, because there is a qualita- tive difference between the microworld and macroworld-the macroworld can store information while the microworld can- not. We concluded our discussion of Schrodinger's cat with the realization that the observer-determined reality is only for atomic-sized objects. The reality of these is a distribution of events. By the act of observing we change one random distribution to another random distribution. You can hardly call that an observer-determined reality. It was like those nonlocal influence advocates who turned out to be saying no more than that one random sequence shifted to another." One distinguished scientist in our group politely asks the salesman how he can be absolutely certain an observation has been made if observation depends on temporally irrevers- ible processes which are themselves only statistical-highly irreversible but not absolutely so. Before the salesman can answer, someone shouts a question at him. "But suppose there is only one event and not a se-quence?" asks the heckler, who has followed the crowd here. Page 163 Suppose there is only one event, not a distribution of events, and that event determines whether the human species lives or dies, not just a cat." "Single quantum events have no significance in quantum theory. They occur at random," says the salesman. "What is randomness ?" asks the heckler. We have heard this before. Our heads are spinning anyway, and the air in the room is very hot. We go out of the shop just as another argument bursts into a shouting match. It is something about consciousness being implied by the Copenhagen interpreta- tion. We never do hear the end of it but are grateful to be outside where the air is fresh. Time for a walk to think things over and clear our heads. Not far from the reality marketplace we find a cool park, and there, on the bench smoking a pipe, sits an old man whose presence projects both warmth and confidence. "Have you bought a reality yet?" we ask. "No, not yet, and I'm doubtful I will," he replies in a thick Danish accent. "I have thought about the problem for a long time and have come to some conclusions in discussions with Einstein." "Where is Einstein now? What reality did he purchase?" we ask our informant. "Einstein left the reality marketplace a long time ago, leaving his cash to me. He would have none of it and took to wandering farther down the road, like the wanderer he was in his youth. I have no idea what he found there, if anything. As for myself, I have come to terms with quantum reality.
Page 162 (Continues) "There is no quantum world like the ordinary world of familiar objects like tables and chairs, and we should stop looking for it. The entities of the microworld like electrons, protons, and photons certainly exist, but some of their ...properties--basic properties such as their location in space - exist only on a contingency basis. Previous to the invention of the quantum theory, physicists could think of the world in terms of its objects independent of how they knew that world existed. Quantum reality also has things - the quanta -like electrons and photons - but given along with that world is a structure of information which is ultimately reflected in how we speak about quantum reality. Quantum measurement theory is an information theory. The quantum world has disap-peared into what we can know about it, and what we can / Page163 / know about it must come from actual experimental arrange-ments-there is no other way. "What I am certain of is that quantum reality is not classical reality-there is no way you can fit it into classical reality. Quantum theory does not predict individual events and classical theory would; the two theories are logically distinct. But even in our attempt to characterize what quan- tum reality is not, we appeal to classical concepts such as objectivity and local causality. We have no choice in doing this, because we are macroscopic beings and live in a classi-cal, visualizable world to which those concepts apply. "We can imagine that .quantum reality is like a sealed box out of which we receive messages. We can ask questions about the contents of the box but never actually see what is inside of it. We have found a theory-the quantum theory- of the messages, and it is consistent. But there is no way to visualize the contents of the box. The best attitude one can take is to become a 'fair witness'-just describe what is actu-ally observed without projecting fantasies on it. This is a minimalist approach to reality and the one I advocate. "Those people in the reality marketplace have forgotten something I told .them long ago, or perhaps they never heard it properly-the principle of complementarity. This principle asserts that in describing reality we must invoke complementary concepts that exclude each other-they can- not both be true. But not only do they exclude each other conceptually, they depend on each other for their very defini- tion. For example, male and female can be understood as complementary concepts. If you imagine that there is a choice of sex as you are born, then you may pick either female or male. But if the world had only one sex, then there is no concept of sex-the very concepts of male and female define each other as well as exclude each other. Such complemen- tary concepts are different representations of the same single reality-in this example that is the reality of humanity. "My favorite illustration of complementarity is the pic- ture of a vase made of two profiles used by the gestalt psychologists. Is it a vase or two profiles? You can see it as either, depending on which image is figure and which is background. But you cannot see it as both simultaneously. It is a perfect example of observer-created reality-you decide the reality you are going to see. And yet the definitions of / Page 164 / what is the vase and what is the profile depend on each other-you cannot have one without the other. They are - different representations of the same underlying reality-here simply a piece of black and white paper. Now you know why I stopped going to the reality marketplace. Those two shops for objective and local reality are 'actually run by two brothers, and other members of the family run the other shops. If you think carefully about the objectivity and locality of the microworld, they turn out to be complementary concepts in the quantum theory-just like the vase and profiles. That is the beautiful feature brought out by Bell's experiment. If you fantasize that the photons exist in a definite state as the flying nails exist in a definite state, then you see that reality must be nonlocal. But the moment you actually try to verify the actual state of a flying photon-which is the same as trying to verify real acausal nonlocal influences-you must upset the first condition of the experiment, which is that the two photon polarizations are correlated precisely. Conversely, if you accept strict local causality then there is no option but to give up the idea of objectivity for individual photons. That is how the principle of complementarity applies to Bell's experiment. "From the macroscopic view all we have are the records at A and B, and these are certainly objective in the usual sense. Like the live or dead cat they cannot be erased. But the information on these records can never be used to infer real nonlocal or acausal influences. I know there are people who claim the quantum theory requires we give up objectiv-ity or locality for the macroworld of tables and chairs. But they haven't understood that the macroworld and microworld are qualitatively distinct. There is no macroscopic quantum weirdness. "Arguing whether the microworld is local or objective is like arguing over whether the picture represents a vase or profiles. They are two mutually exclusive ways of speaking about the same reality. You must pick one if you are going to describe quantum reality. But within the framework of material possibilities your reality is a matter of choice. Once your mind accepts this, the world will never be the same again. The material world actually imposed this way of thinking on us. I cannot stop wondering about that. The real mystery of the physical world is why there is no mystery-nothing seems / Page 165 / to be ultimately hidden. That we may not always know reality is not because it is so far from us but because we are so close to it." We feel excited by his remarks, though the old uneasiness has not left us. Yet listening to him is certainly better than that marketplace. After a long silence our old friend gives us his final words. "What quantum reality is, is the reality marketplace. The house of a God that plays dice has many rooms. We can live in only one room at a time, but it is the whole house that is reality." He gets up and leaves us. Only the smoke from his pipe remains, and then, like the smile of the Cheshire cat, that too disappears. ? WAS IT A NUMBER 9 BUS WAS IT A NUMBER 9 TRAM WAS IT EITHER OR NEITHER NEITHER OR EITHER OR WAS IT THE 9 IN THE 9 OF THE 9 THAT I AM
CATCHING THE LIGHT THE ENTWINED HISTORY OF LIGHT AND MIND Arthur Zajonc 1993 Opposite page viii I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. Emily Dickinson I am the one who openeth his eyes, and there is light; When his eyes close, darkness falleth. the Egyptian god Ra, 1300 B.C.
If the light rises in the Sky of the heart. . . and, in the utterly pure inner man attains the brightness of the sun or of many suns. . . then his heart is nothing but light, his subtle body is light, his material covering is light, his hearing, his sight, his hand, his exterior, his interior, are nothing but light. Najm Razi, 1256
All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to the answer to the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself. Albert Einstein, 1951"
Martin Amis Page 9 "thirty three" ninth line up Page 33 "(at least three times)" "...Andromeda always thought: life! Here is life..." Page 54 "...pure momentum and mass, forever subject to their laws...."
CATCHING THE LIGHT THE ENTWINED HISTORY OF LIGHT AND MIND Arthur Zajonc 1993 THE GIFT OF LIGHT Page 21 "... Earth that makes night by coming in the way of the [sun's] rays,"16 an astute observation for the time. He seems, however, to have considered sunlight as only part of the whole process, and recognized that something more was required for vision, some- thing essential provided by man: the light of the body. Plato, like Empedocles, was permitted to study the secret doc- trines of Pythagoras, at least until he (again like Empedocles) betrayed Pythagoras' teachings to the uninitiated through his writings. Plato's account of vision is, not surprisingly, similar to, if fuller than, that of Empedocles. When blended together with the later geometrical tradition of sight begun by Euclid and the medical tradition codified by Galen, Plato's treatment would persist for almost 1,500 years! In this tradition, the light of the eye played fully as important a role as the light of the sun. According to Plato, the fire of the eye causes a gentle light to issue from it. This interior light coalesces with the daylight, like to like, forming thereby a single homogeneous body of light. That body, a marriage of inner light and outer, forges a link between the objects of the world and the soul. It becomes the bridge along which the subtle motions of an exterior object may pass, causing the sensation of sight.17 In this view, two lights-an inner and outer-come together and act as the mediator between man and a dark, cavernous external world. Once the link of light is formed, the message may pass, like Iris, Homer's messenger goddess, from one world to the other. The eye and the sun display to Plato a deep har- mony, one still appreciated by the German poet Goethe when, in the introduction to his own Theory of Color (1810), he penned the poem: Page 22 How could we behold the light? if God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?18 Once again, the mind's eye is not passive, but plays its own significant part in the activity of seeing. The image of an interior ocular fire captured vividly the ancient sense of that action, so convincingly that it dominated philosophy for 1,500 years. We come to know the world, in large part, through sight. Quite naturally, Plato used sight as a metaphor for all knowing, calling the psyche's own organ of perception the "eye of the soul or minds eye.19 our word theory has Its origin in the Greek word theoria, meaning "to behold." To know is to have seen, not passively but actively, through the action of the eye's fire, which reaches out to grasp, and so to apprehend the world. Our activity, present in seeing and knowing, is an element integral to the Platonic understandin,g of vision. Sight entails the seer in an essential, formative action of image making or imagination. To such as Moreau's child or to S.B., the effort of that constructive act was a constant and exhausting reminder of their past blindness. To us who see, the world is instantly and effortlessly intelligible; at least most of the time. Consider the figure on page 23.(Figure omitted) It is but one of many similarly "ambiguous figures." Allow yourself time to play with it. At first only one figure shows itself, an old woman or a young girl. Without an iota's change on the "objective" printed page, the delicate chin of the young girl becomes the lumped nose of an old hag. Feel the shift from one picture to the other. It takes place entirely within you. With a little practice you can even control what you see. The physical difference between one image and the other is nil, while the "soul distance" between them is huge. What has changed? Your own activity; the character of your participation / Page 23 / can shape and reshape itself, and you can feel it. With every act of perception, we participate unawares in making a mean- ingful world. In response to outer light, an interior light flashes, bringing intelligence with it. It is the light that did not brighten the newly opened eye of Moreau's child when turned to see its first light. Times of Transition In the Bhagavad-Gita, in Homer, Empedocles, and Plato, vision entails an essential human activity of movement out from the eye into the world. In the centuries following Plato, a shift gradually took place that only reached its conclusion with Rene Descartes in the seventeenth century. The concerns of science changed during this long period. The influence of Plato and then of Aristotle lingered long into the medieval period. As long as this was the case, sight was as much or more a soul-spiritual / Page 24 / process as a physical one. By the sixteenth century, however, a profound shift seems nearly mature. Natural philosophers such as Kepler and, to a much greater extent, Galileo are less con-cerned with the soul's translation of external stimulation into meaningful perception, and more preoccupied with the physics of the eye viewed as an inanimate, physical instrument. The change is not universal, swift, or uniform, but a watershed is crossed nonetheless, first by those few scientists in the oft-dangerous vanguard of research. In their hands, sight becomes a question of mechanics rather than a species of soul-spiritual activity so characteristic of many earlier thinkers. The shift is characteristic and of central importance. We meet it first in the evolution of man's experience of seeing. We will discover it again when we study light itself. What begins as a lively, soul-spiritual experience, be it of light or sight, attenuates, clarifies, and divides into optics and psychology. More than an interesting historical observation, our changing view of light is symbolic of a major change in consciousness, an im-portant threshold crossed in the history of the mind. Like the ambiguous figure, nature presents herself in indef-inite guises. How we see her depends as much on us as on her. Only together do meaningful worldly images arise. The wa- tershed crossed, therefore, is not the divide between ignorance and wisdom, but more like the ambiguous shift from young girl to old woman. Therefore as we read the history of science, we must be ever conscious of the individuals who enacted it. Their eyes saw, their hearts yearned for knowledge, and out of their being ways of seeing the world were born, flourished, and died. One way of seeing became for a time the way of many, until a fresher, more congenial view appeared."
Page 24 (Continues) "The delicate beginnings of the transition to a mechanical conception of seeing were evident by 300 B.C.. in the optical studies attributed to the great Alexandrian mathematician Euclid. In his book Optics he provided a brilliant geometrical / Page 25 / treatment of sight. Euclid continued to believe that a visual ray was primary to the whole process of vision, and advanced several very sensible arguments in favor of the position. For example, we often do not see things even when looking at them. Drop a needle on the ground, Euclid suggests, and then wonder as you search for it why you don't see it immediately. Your field of view certainly encompasses the needle. In modem terms, the needle is certainly imaged on the retina, but remains unseen. Then suddenly, in a flash, you see it. If sight depends only on light from outside falling on objects, and then traveling into the eye, one would see it immediately. Obviously light was being reflected from the needle and into the eye throughout the search, so, reasoned Euclid, sight cannot in the first place depend on external light. The puzzle is solved, however, if we adopt the doctrine of the visual ray. In searching for the needle, the eye's own visual ray reaches out and passes back and forth across the ground. Only when it strikes the needle do we see it! The visual ray of Euclid is different in important ways, however, from the luminous and ethereal emanation of Plato and Empedocles. In Euclid's hands, the eye's fiery emanation has become a straight line, a visual ray, susceptible to deductive logic and geometric proof. His extensive mathematical studies yielded many fruits and became the basis for later Arab inves-tigations and for laying the foundation for the discovery of linear perspective by Brunelleschi, Alberti, and Durer centuries later. But mathematization came at a price. It distanced man from the earlier and more immediate experience reflected in the Platonic understanding of vision. The significance of mathematization should not be underes- timated. Without abstraction, science as we know it cannot exist. Yet in order to analyze one must stop experiencing and go on to represent the object of study with thoughts of crystalline clarity, for example, with mathematical concepts. Euclid did / Page 26 / just this. Plato's somewhat elusive, immaterial bridge of light between object and eye, became through Euclid a geometry of visual rays, cones, and angular measurement. Everything needed for the study of geometrical optics was developed, but in the process one can detect an important distancing from the subjective human experience of seeing. Euclid's meticulous mathematical style of argumentation has replaced the more po- etic treatment of Empedocles or Plato. As every physicist knows, the elegant forms of mathematics can easily outshine the dull stirrings of experience, and eventually come to replace the phe- nomena they originally were invented to describe. Euclid's handling of light foreshadows the growing separation of sight as lived experience from sight as a formal object of investigation. The history of light has turned a corner, and with it the mystery of sight entered a new phase, one that blossomed first in Arab lands, to culminate finally in the work of another great geometer and mathematician, Rene Descartes."
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1924 The Thunderbolt Page 706 SEVEN years Hans Castorp remained amongst those up here. Partisans of the decimal system might prefer a round number, though seven is a good handy figure in its way, picturesque, with a savour of the mythical; one might even say that it is more filling to the spirit than a dull academic half-dozen. Our hero had sat at all seven of the tables in the dining-room, at each about a year, the last being the bad " Russian table, and his company there two Armenians, two Finns, a Bokharian, and a Kurd. He sat at the "bad" Russian table, wearing a recent little blond beard, vaguish in cut, which we are disposed to regard as a sign of philosophic indiffer-ence to his own outer man. Yes, we will even go further, and relate his carelessness of his person to the carelessness of the rest of the world regarding him. The authorities had ceased to devise him distractions. There was the morning inquiry, as to whether he had slept well, itself purely rhetorical and summary; and that aside, the Hofrat did not address him with any particularity; while Adriatica von Mylendonk - she had, at the time of which we write, a stye in a perfect state of maturity - did so seldom, in fact scarcely ever. They let him be. He was like the scholar in the " peculiarly happy state of never being "asked" any more; of never having a task, of being left to sit, since the fact of his being left behind is established, and no one troubles about him further - an orgiastic kind of freedom, but we ask ourselves whether, in-deed, freedom ever is or can be of any other kind. At all events, here was one on whom the authorities 'no longer needed to keep ".an eye, being assured that no wild or defiant resolves were ripen-ing in his breast. He was " settled," established. Long ago he had ceased to know where else he should go, long ago he had ceased to be capable of a resolve to return to the flat-land. Did not the very fact that he was sitting at the "bad " Russian table wimess a certain abandon? No slightest adverse comment upon the said table being intended by the remark! Among all the seven, no single one could be said to possess definite tangible advantages or / Page 707 / disadvantages. We make bold to say that here was a democracy of tables, all honourable alike. The same tremendous meals were served here as at the others; Rhadamanthus himself occasionally folded his huge hands before the doctor's place at the head; and the nations who ate there were respectable members of the human race, even though they boasted no Latin, and were not exag-geratedly dainty at their feeding. Time - yet not the time told by the station clock, moving with a jerk five minutes at once, but rather the time of a tiny timepiece, the hand of which one cannot see move, or the time the grass keeps when it grows, so unobservably one would say it does not grow at all, until some morning the fact is undeni-able - time, a line composed of a succession of dimensionless points (and now we are sure the unhappy deceased Naphta would interrupt us to ask how dimensionless points, no matter how many of them, can constitute a line), time, we say, had gone on, in its furtive, unobservable, competent way, bringing about changes. For example, the boy Teddy was discovered, one day- not one single day, of course, but only rather indefinitely from which day - to be a boy no longer. No more might ladies take him on their laps, when, on occasion, he left his bed, changed his pyjamas for his knickerbockers, and came downstairs. Im-perceptibly that leaf had turned. Now, on such occasions, he took them- on his instead, and both sides were as well, or even better pleased. He was become a youth; scarcely could we say he had bloomed into a youth; but he had shot up. Hans Castorp had not noticed it happening, and then, suddenly, he did. The shooting-up, however, did not suit the lad Teddy; the temporal became him not. In his twenty-first year he departed this life; dying of the disease for which he had proved receptive; and they cleansed and fumigated after him. The fact makes little claim upon our emotions, the change being so slight between his one state and his next. But there were other deaths, and more important; deaths down in the flat-land, which touched, or would once have touched, our hero more nearly. We are thinking of the recent decease of old Consul Tienappel, Hans's great-uncle and foster-father, of faded memory. He had carefully avoided unfavourable conditions of atmospheric pressure, and left it to Uncle James to stultify him- self; yet an apoplexy carried him off after all; and a telegram, couched in brief but feeling terms - feeling more for the departed than for the recipient of the wire - was one day brought to Hans Castorp where he lay in his excellent chair. He acquired / Page 708 / some black-bordered note-paper, and wrote to his uncle-cousins: he, the doubly, now, so to say, triply orphaned, expressed him-self as being the more distressed over the sad news, for that cir- cumstances forbade him interrupting his present sojourn even to pay his great-uncle the last respects. To speak of sorrow would be disingenuous. Yet in these days Hans Castorp's eyes did wear an expression more musing than common. This death, which could at no time have moved him greatly, and after the lapse of years could scarcely move him at all, meant the sundering of yet another bond with the life below; gave to what he rightly called his freedom the final seal. In the time of which we speak, all contact between him and the flatland had ceased. He sent no letters thither, and received none thence. He no longer ordered Maria Mancini, having found a brand up here to his liking, to which he was now as faithful as once to his old-time charmer: a brand that must have carried even a polar explorer through the sorest and severest trials; armed with which, and no other solace, Hans Castorp could lie and bear it out indefinitely, as one does at the sea-shore. It was an especially well cured brand, with the best leaf wrapper, named "Light of Asia "; rather more compact than Maria, mouse-grey in colour with a blue band, very tractable and mild, and evenly consuming to a snow-white ash, that held its shape and still showed traces of the veining on the wrapper; so evenly and regularly that it might have served the smoker for an hour-glass, and did so, at need, for he no longer carried a timepiece. His watch had fallen from his night-table; it did not go, and he had neglected to have it regulated, perhaps on the same grounds as had made him long since give up using a calendar, whether to keep track of the day, or to look out an approaching feast: the grounds, namely, of his "freedom." Thus be did honour to his abiding-everlasting, his walk by the ocean of time, the hermetic enchantment to which he had proved so extraordinarily susceptible that it had become the fundamental adventure of his life, in which all the alchemisti-cal processes of his simple substance had found full play. Thus he lay; and thus, in high summer, the year was once more rounding out, the seventh year, though he knew it not, of his sojourn up here."
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THE FINDING OF THE THIRD EYE Vera Stanley Alder 1968 THB SCIENCE OF NUMBERS Page115 The number Nine represents the perfect and completed man, who having fully developed himself, must now forget himself in Sacrifice and Service. Here we have the great lover, humani- tarian and artist. Through this number beats the most high powered of human vibrations, which has great force to be used for either good or evil. To write all that is known about numbers would fill volumes. We have not space to do more than take this glance at the primary numbers. They, of course, each belong to their Colour, Planet and Sound. When, after some study, it is seen how com-pletely all these facets of life dove-tail and fit into their places like an intricate vast Chinese puzzle it will be realized that these marvellous 'theories' are too perfect and too near to the truth to have been invented by the brains of human beings. This indeed is the reward of a study of these matters-a gradual realization of the amazing fact that there really is a whole universe of marvels and of sublime promise for those who seek. The science of numbers is exhaustive, instructive, and useful if applied with an honest desire for progress and understanding. Modem scientists are busily expressing the ancient beliefs in their own manner. They are measuring the vibrations of diseases, of thoughts, of will-power and of many other activities and getting them all numbered. They are numerologists in their own way, although they still turn their backs rigidily upon the ancient sciences. Nevertheless, they are bringing to light one funda-mental fact, and that is that everything exists through the forma- tion of a different number, and therefore that numbers must constitute a language, a key, and a clue to many secrets in life, if we can learn to decipher them. There are various systems of numerology. The sifting of the true from the false will do much to develop the student's own powers of deciphering numbers.
THE MAGICALALPHABET
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A STRAIGHT ANSWER TO A STRAIGHT QUESTION ? ARE YOU AN ALIEN AND IF SO ARE YOU FROM OUTER SPACE OR INNER SPACE ? YES AND YOU ?
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KEEPER OF GENESIS A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND Robert Bauval Graham Hancock 1996 Page 254 "...Is there in any sense an interstellar Rosetta Stone?
LETTERS TRANSPOSED INTO NUMBER REARRANGED IN NUMERICAL ORDER 5 x 5 = 25 LOOK AT THJE 5FIVES LOOK AT THE 5FIVES LOOK AT THE 5FIVES THE 5FIVES THE 5FIVES 5 x 5 = 25
JUST SIX NUMBERS Martin Rees 1 OUR COSMIC HABITAT I PLANETS STARS AND LIFE Page 24 "A proton is 1,836 times heavier than an electron, and the number 1,836 would have the same connotations to any 'intelligence' " "A proton is 1,836 times heavier than an electron, and the number 1,836 would have the same connotations to any 'intelligence'"
THE GREAT PYRAMID ITS DIVINE MESSAGE AN ORIGINAL CO-ORDINATION OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES D. Davidson and H. Aldersmith 1925 Page 279 "The resulting length for the Grand Gallery roof is 1836 P an important Pyramid dimension dealt with later."
HARMONIC 288 Bruce Cathie 1977 EIGHT THE MEASURE OF LIGHT : I Page 95 Page 95/97
THE TUTANKHAMUN PROPHECIES Maurice Cotterell 1999 Page194 Anderson's Constitutions of the Freemasons (In3) comments: Page 190 "The holy number of sun-worshippers is 9, the highest number that can be reached before becoming one (10) with the creator. This is why Tutankhamun was entombed in nine layers of coffin. This is why the pyramid skirts of the two statues, guarding the entrance to the Burial Chamber, were triangular (base 3), when the all-seeing eye-skirt of Mereruka contained a pyramid skirt with a base of four sides. The message concealed here is that the 3 should be squared, which equals 9. Freemasons" for reasons we shall see, are said to be 'on the square'."
THE BIOLOGY OF DEATH Lyall Watson 1974 Page 49 "AS long ago as 1836, in a Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, this was said: Individuals who are apparently destroyed in a sudden manner, by certain wounds, diseases , or even decapitation are not really dead, but are only in conditions incompatible with the persistence life."
THE JUPITER EFFECT John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann 1977 Page 122 : "Seventeen 'major historical earthquakes' are referred to in the report all of which occurred since
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI Paramahansa Yogananda 1946 Book cover comments "I am grateful to you for granting me some insight into this fascinating world." - Thomas Mann" "As an eye witness recountal of the extraordinary lives and powers of modern Hindu saints, the book has importance both timely and timeless." - W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Orientalist Page 275 "In the gigantic concepts of Einstein, the velocity of light - 1863 miles per second - dominates the whole theory of relativity" 1863 - 1836
GODS OF THE DAWN THE MESSAGE OF THE PYRAMIDS AND THE TRUE STARGATE MYSTERY Peter Lemesurier 1997 Page 118 "With the entry into the Grand Gallery, all kinds of extraordinary things now start to happen"
KEEPER OF GENESIS Page 254 Professor Sagan then offers a comparison that is highly apposite to our present inquiry. 'Today,' he says: Extraterrestrial intelligence will be elegant, complex, internally consistent and utterly alien.
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MATHEMATICS A LANGUAGE OF LETTERS AND NUMBERS
MATHEMATICS A LANGUAGE OF LETTER AND NUMBER
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GREETINGS CHILDREN OF THE RAINBOW LIGHT PEACE AND GOODWILL BE UNTO YOU AND UNTO ALL SENTIENT BEINGS
THE ART OF MEMORY FRANCIS A. YATES 1979 THE OCCULT PHILOSOPHY IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE JOHN DEE AND THE FAERIE QUEENE Page 120 "Aristotle in his Ethics defines justice of proportion, an idea which suggests proportion as an ethical quality.As John Dee noted in his Preface to Euclid of 1570: 'Aristotle in his Ethikes ... was fayne to fly to the perfection and power of numbers for proportions / Page 121 / arithmeticall and geometricall.26" Page 222 EPILOGUE IF I SAY PERADVENTURE THE DARKNESS SHALL COVER ME: THEN SHALL MY NIGHT BE TURNED TO DAY. YEA THE DARKNESS IS NO DARKNESS WITH THEE, BUT THE NIGHT IS AS CLEAR AS THE DAY: THE DARKNESS AND LIGHT TO THEE ARE BOTH ALIKE.
THE DIVINE INVASION Phillip K. Dick 1981 Page 5 THE TIME YOU HAVE WAITED FOR HAS COME. THE WORK IS COMPLETE; THE FINAL WORLD IS HERE. HE HAS BEEN TRANSPLANTED AND IS ALIVE. - Mysterious voice in the night
THE HOURS OF THE HORUS 1980
CHEIRO'S BOOK OF NUMBERS Circa 1926 Page106 The question has been asked again and again, Is there some means of knowing when the moment has come to take the tide at the flood?
THE QUESTION HAS BEEN ASKED AGAIN AND AGAIN IS THERE SOME MEANS OF KNOWING WHEN THE MOMENT HAS COME TO TAKE THE TIDE AT THE FLOOD
YOU ARE GOING ON A JOURNEY A VERY SPECIAL JOURNEY DO HAVE A PLEASANT JOURNEY DO
KEEPER OF GENESIS A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND Robert Bauval Graham Hancock 1996 Page 254 "...Is there in any sense an interstellar Rosetta Stone?
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