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Originally Posted by Ron61
Mike,
So much of what we were taught in school has turned out to be just plain wrong that I no longer refer to what I learned there but try to look at the latest data I can find on the Universe. I did see some pictures of an old cave painting that showed some planet in an orbit and the scientists all laughed at it and said it was just the dreaming of some cave man. Then low and behold as they got the Hubble working, that planet was not only there but in the very orbit it had been shown in. Makes me wonder how people that long ago could know and figure out things that we seen unable to do today.
Ron  |
During my wild speculative excursion about imagineering how gravity might be mechanically pictured to work as a simple expansion, I reserved an alertness for all sorts of possible related data that someone had likely thought this up before.
Being the only one to think up something weird is not usually a good thing. Specifically, the word, "crackpot" leaps to mind.
At the time, my dirt-bike buddy was deep into pyramids and their magical ability to sharpen razor blades etc. He had a book that gave the formula to build a small one and save big money on blades. Some of you may remember this brief populist idea from the '70's era.
I'm not much for magic, but the the ratio theme using pi was not lost on me. Apparently the symbolic shape, notably starting (or ending) at a point and radiating outward, was pretty important to the Egyptians and even the South Americans that followed a similar "tribute to math and eternity" theme. They were, of course, also avid astronomers. Gotta love the Ancients.
In my defense, I am not the only one that
appreciated this.
Yeah, I know, I'm still a crackpot. Luckily, it won't affect my professional career.
Wes
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