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I don't have any doubts that some Greeks were interested in some types of numerology. But I find your source not only misleading but also disingenuous.
Originally posted by MIDNIGHTSUN
Did the Greeks know about the Luo Shu? Pythagoras and Chinese numerology. Plato and the 27x27 Magic Square.
This makes in interesting case. Check out the link: www.luo-shu.com...
I wouldn't argue that this is wrong, however it's hardly a compelling argument. If there's no evidence, then there's no evidence.
Though the Pythagoreans never left any record of using Magic Squares, this is not conclusive evidence that they were unfamiliar with them.
I would argue with that. Here's the 1881 translation, and note your source takes the quote out of context by omitting the preceding explanation of where the number comes from:
"The king lives 729 times more pleasantly..." is a reference to the 27x27 Magic Square, the calendar, and an order of society through wisdom rather than tyranny.
Originally posted by MIDNIGHTSUN
Did the Greeks know about the Luo Shu? Pythagoras and Chinese numerology. Plato and the 27x27 Magic Square.
There are at least two definitions of a liar:
Originally posted by MIDNIGHTSUN
Just goes to show the kind of threat the I Ching poses to RELIGIOUS FANATICAL LIARS who speak of its origins but denies its right and claiming it as their own work.
Originally posted by MIDNIGHTSUN
I know it doesn't hold up well.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Thread Theory, instead, offers a rational explanation for ‘charge.’ Charge is not a stand-alone object but a process, a phenomenon that occurs at several places at once. The electron shell perpetually expands and contracts and in the process intermittently reels in and releases a link. It is the composite, subatomic ‘friction’ at each location along the surface of the electron shell – the back and forth motion of the rope – that we detect as charge (Fig. 4.33). This also explains why the electric ‘field’ that surrounds a charge extends to ‘infinity’. The EM ropes coming straight out of an electron shell extend radially and end in every atom in the Universe.
It's a giant, worldwide conspiracy to keep the vast majority of astrophysicists, plasma physicists, fusion scientists, turbulence researchers, and engineers all over the world, all paid on the govt gravy train - because the govt is the only one funding astrophysical, plasma, fusion, fluid and turbulence research, and all get paid oh so well. Because there really is no such thing as peer review in the journals or the proposal review panels.
Seriously? Govt gravy train? ... Ok. You figured it out. The vast majority of astrophysicists, plasma physicists, and fusion researchers, throughout the entire world - from US govt labs like NOAA, NASA, and Los Alamos, to private labs like UCAR, CFA, and JPL, to titan private defense corporations like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing, to small private companies like Predictive Science Inc, to pretty much every single major public and private university like Michigan, Harvard, Princeton, CalTech, Dartmouth, Univ of New Hampshire, Martyland, Arizona, UCLA (etc. etc. etc.), as well as all their counterparts in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, the UK, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Russia, China, India, Australia, South Korea, and Japan - don't really understand science at all.
We didn't really spend 6 years in graduate school taking courses like mechanics, statistical physics, electrodynamics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, or any of the math analysis stuff. Nor have we spent years researching ever conceivable aspect of this stuff, and discussing this stuff with each other. Nobody has ever thought about the issues you are discussing. As a group, we have never investigated every conceivable plasma instability in astrophysical systems, or fusion systems, or planetary magnetospheres, or stellar winds, or accretion disks, or pretty much every situation we can possibly think of. We are fabricating observations, experimental results, and incorrectly solving the equations of particle kinetics, Maxwell, fluid dynamics, and turbulence - if we ever knew how to write them down correctly in the first place. You know, cause we've all been indoctrinated by our liberal elitist university professors, who really want to impose a new world order. We're all just taking our marching orders from Al Gore, who says, "Let's go boys. RIDE THAT GOVT GRAY TRAIN."
Originally posted by Mary Rose
In this video, which is "addressed to the electrical engineers of the world," Bill Gaede makes the statement, "In physics there is no such thing as north and south poles, or positive and negative.
In physics there is only clockwise and counterclockwise." Sounds like vortices.
Trying to measure changes in a sphere 2/3 of a meter in diameter, that are 5 orders of magnitude smaller than a proton, can't be easy, can it? No wonder we haven't measured them yet. This was one of the first instruments roughly the same size that was intended to measure gravity waves, but I don't think it had a snowball's chance of being successful:
A spherical design has the benefit of being able to detect gravitational waves arriving from any direction, and it is sensitive to polarization. When gravitation waves with frequencies around 3,000 Hz pass through the MiniGRAIL ball, it will vibrate with displacements on the order of 10^-20 m. For comparison, the cross-section of a single proton (the nucleus of a hydrogen atom), is 10^-15 m (1 fm).
I'm struck by the visual of EM ropes that extend radially and end in every atom in the Universe.
Space: The space around us is not empty; Space is a quantum wave medium of spherical quantum waves. The energy-density of space is due to the sum of waves from all matter in the Universe.
In school, we have probably all made experiments with charged objects and the electrodynamical forces. Consider two conducting and charged plates, parallel to each other. If both plates have the same charge, they will repel, if they have opposite charges they will attract. This force acting on the plates can be measured. So far, so good. Now take away the charges, just stick with the two conducting plates. What will happen? Surprisingly, the two plates will still attract each other!
This seemingly weird finding of quantum field theory is a very weak effect that can only be measured at smallest distances of the plates, typically of the order nanometers. Roughly speaking one can understand it as follows: quantum field theory teaches us there is no such thing as a really 'empty' vacuum. Instead, there are constantly particle pairs created. They come into life for a very short time, then annihilate and vanish. They are called 'virtual particles'. As is common for quantum objects, their energy is related to a wavelength. The higher their energy, the smaller the wavelength.
The troublesome thing about these particles is that their energy can actually become arbitrarily large, in fact, it can be infinitely large. This then results in a seemingly enormous 'vacuum energy'. However, as long as we neglect gravity, we can not really measure absolute values of energy anyhow. We can only measure differences between energies. Therefore, one can be bothered by the result of this calculation, but for practical purposes it never actually becomes problematic.
Originally posted by I am just saying
He is a savant.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Absolutely fascinating.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
reply to post by MIDNIGHTSUN
Are you trying to pick at fight?!
edit on 04/15/11 by Mary Rose because: Punctuation
Originally posted by Mary Rose
reply to post by MIDNIGHTSUN
You do the same!!