Requiem for Relativity

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<br />Aug 14, 2001, Milk Hill, Wiltshire crop formation corroborates Oct. 8, 2012 date

This formation (see Lucy Pringle's archives) has been described as Julia set, but the resemblance might be mere accident. The circlemakers contrived this way of presenting a large number of disks with high redundancy in case the message were damaged.

The number of disks, counting the center disk, is 409, a prime number. The number of days from the discovery date, Aug. 14, 2001, to the date Oct. 8, 2012, is

11*365 + 3 leap days + 61 - 6 = 4073, also prime

Note

4073^2 is congruent to 289 modulo 409

and

409^2 is congruent to 288 modulo 4073

This is not the quadratic reciprocity theorem, though there is a superficial resemblance. It seems that this relationship between 409 and 4073 allowed the circlemakers to represent 4073 in a more economical and slightly cryptic way.
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Addendum Oct 4:

With a simple computer program, I found empirically that of the 754,606 pairs of different primes &lt; 10,001, only 327 pairs (0.04%) satisfy the above relation that 409 & 4073 do, i.e. residues differing by 1. By contrast, 8801 pairs (1.2%) satisfy the analogous relation where the residues differ by 0 (i.e. are equal). So the actual relation (i.e. residues differing by 1) is the more meaningful.

There is another hint: the same relation (that is, mutual quadratic residues differing by 1) holds for the prime pair 409 & 4073-364 = 3709. The 364 is so close to 365, the year length in days, that this pair, 409 & 4073, becomes likelier to be intentional.

Here is a possible hint to the hour:

289/409 days = 16h 57.5m

Actual midnight at Stonehenge (most negative sun elevation) is slightly later than 23:55 GMT Oct 7. So, the indicated time for the catastrophe is

Oct 8, 16:53 GMT

With a choice of 327 prime pairs &lt; 10,001 satisfying the relation, a pair could be chosen such that the time was implied to a fraction of an hour's precision. So, several of my previous time estimates from interpreting other crop formations, e.g. 17:23 GMT, are corroborated.

Sep 23 Mexican 60 meter crop formation: Oct 8 again

The crop season is over in Britain, but our friends the circlemakers aren't giving up. On Sep 23, a 60 meter crop formation was found near Mexico City. It has 16 small triangles equally spaced around the perimeter, corresponding to the 16 days between Sep 22, the equinox, and Oct 8 (the circle may well have been made Sep 22 and discovered a day later). The two large disks to either side of the main center disk, and the "axe blade" shapes, serve to emphasize that it is 8 + 8 = 16; that is, 8 days from the equinox to the full moon Sep 30, and 8 more days to Oct 8.

Well, today's the big day. Expect some harsh questions tomorrow Dr. Keller if nothing happens.

The story Dr Joe is relating is based on models he follows very well. The predictions flowing from the story also are based on models. Don't blame the story teller for using only models for research.

Thanks for your comments, Krag and Jim, both of you.

Absolutely nothing happened on Oct 8 as far as I know! But I'm not letting down my guard completely.

It might be, that the "Oct 8" readings of the crop circles were mere accidents, but I still think it likelier that many or most of the crop circles were designed to signify that date. If so, then most likely, the circlemakers simply failed to get the date right. Maybe they knew it was only a guess, and decided to err on the side of a date that was too early rather than a date that was too late. Those who prepare for a date that is too early, still will have most of their preparations available if the true date of catastrophe is a few days or weeks later.

I had managed to send a three-page executive summary of my reasons for alarm about Oct. 8, to about half of my Harvard classmates who had put writeups in our 35th reunion book; about 300 got the summaries. The only response was from one astronomy major whom I knew well. He took me seriously and discussed it with some people he knew, but wasn't quite sure what to make of it all.

I had built a crude shelter in a corner of the hayfield on the other side of my driveway: it's more than a mere trench but not by much - it's less elaborate than the typical old-fashioned farmstead tornado shelter; it most closely resembles an old-fashioned root cellar. My landlord, who also owns the hayfield, gave me an ultimatum to obliterate my shelter or else he'd evict me. So far I'm stalling him. I called the U. S. Dept. of Homeland Security today, and the receptionist agreed to email me the phone number of the highest ranking Homeland Security official that she could. I plan to call him and ask him to arrange an executive order allowing tenants to build "tornado shelters" despite the landlord's objection. By analogy: if an intruder attacked the tenant with a knife, wouldn't the tenant have a right to shoot a bullethole into the wall if necessary to defend himself? A tornado shelter, or the equivalent, also is a form of self-defense.

I think that the inventors of the Mayan calendar chose Dec. 21, not because it was their best estimate of the date of catastrophe, but because the choice of a solstice or equinox would command respect from everyone, by proving their competence as astronomers. We only can infer from the Mayan calendar, that the inventors of that calendar thought the catastrophe would be closer to this winter's solstice than to either of the equinoxes. Otherwise they would have made it end at an equinox. It's 90 days from Sept. 22 to Dec. 21; Dec. 21 minus 45 days = Nov. 6. So maybe something will happen after Nov. 6.

Anyway, that nothing happened Oct. 8, certainly decreases the chance that anything will happen. But I'd say there still is a significant chance that something will happen.

Regardless of the outcome, I have enjoyed your derivations Dr. Joe. At least you are trying to make sense of these mysterious appearances. Bravo & thank you.