Clarke tuned into something deepy profound

[eanbardsley]

Arthur C. Clarke's monolith turned out to be a computer put on Earth by extraterrestrials and The Moon to give us an evolutionary nudge when we needed it and to monitor us. It had the dimensions of 1 by 4 by 9, the squares of 1, 2, and 3. 1+4 = 5. The height is 9. I have found that 9/5 (which is 1.8) occurs throughout nature in the areas held most sacred to man down through history, the sun, the moon, gold, silver, water and air:

1. If we compare the mass of air to the mass of water and increase that by a factor of the human body temperature to the freezing temperature of water, we get a value that is 9 compared to 5, which is 1.8.

2. If we compare the mass of an atom of gold to an atom of silver, it is 9 compared to 5 (comparing their molar masses).

3. If we compare the radius of the sun, that is the distance from its center to its surface, to the distance from the center of the earth to the center of the moon, it is 9 compared to five.

9 compared to 5 is nine fifths (9/5) which is equal to 1.8

I have also found that the basis of computers and AI (artificial intelligence), which is doped silicon, has the golden ratio in the means of its components. The golden ratio is reccurrent throughout life because of the dynamics it has to offer. Doped is silicon, phosophorus, and boron. These are naturally occurring elements, made by nature, namely forged in stars. If P is phosporus, B is Boron, and Si is silicon:

sqrt(P*B)/Si=sqrt(30.97*10.81)/(28.09)=0.65

and let us take the harmonic mean between phosphorus and boron and divide it by silicon:

(2*(30.97*10.81)/(30.97+10.81))/28.09 =0.57

Now let us take the arithmetic mean of these two numbers:

(0.65+0.57)/2=0.61

which are the first two digits in the golden ratio.

[eanbardsley]

The golden ratio is 1.618 to three decimal places. Notice that the 2nd and third digits after the decimal are 1 and 8, the two digits in 9/5.

[eanbardsley]

also looking at my data tables and find that if we take the distance of the planet Saturn to the sun as 9 (closest approach), then the distance to the planet Jupiter from the sun is five (closest approach). In fact this way of measuring distances puts the earth exactly at 1 unit from the sun. This is interesting, because Juptiter and Saturn, aside from being the "middle children" of the solar system, planets 5 and 6 of a planetary family of 9 or 10 depending on whether or not you consider the asteroid belt a planet that did not form, and anything found beyond pluto a planetoid, these planets carry the majority of mass of the solar system, significantly, and thus embody most of the dyanamics of its formation.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by eanbardsley

The golden ratio is 1.618 to three decimal places. Notice that the 2nd and third digits after the decimal are 1 and 8, the two digits in 9/5.

Does that have anything to do with Bode's Law?

A mathematical relationship between the mean distances of the planets from the Sun, demonstrated by the German astronomer J.E. Bode in 1772.

It is based upon the progression 0,3,6, etc. To each number in the series 4 is added. The resulting figures, divided by ten, then represent remarkably closely the mean distances of most of the planets measured in Astronomical Units (AU).

Only, that it seems to me to be something fundamental that is worth further research to discover exactly why.

[eanbardsley]

Originally Posted by Dave

Does that have anything to do with Bode's Law?

A mathematical relationship between the mean distances of the planets from the Sun, demonstrated by the German astronomer J.E. Bode in 1772.

It is based upon the progression 0,3,6, etc. To each number in the series 4 is added. The resulting figures, divided by ten, then represent remarkably closely the mean distances of most of the planets measured in Astronomical Units (AU).

Only, that it seems to me to be something fundamental that is worth further research to discover exactly why.

If you divide a line such that the whole line to the larger part is the same as the larger part to the smaller part, then the golden ratio is the number given by dividine the either the whole by the larger part, or the larger part by the smaller part. The decimal expression is 1.618...

Or in closed form is (sqrt(5)+1)/2

Bode's indeed may prove useful in determining how the solar system formed. It demonstrates a geometric distribution of the planets about the sun. If you plot the natural sattellites of Jupiter or Saturn vs. their number, you will notice you can sort of form a geometric distribution about them, you may have to leave out some small satellites to make a smooth curve.

[eanbardsley]

So essentially, we have connected the monolith with nature, and computers and artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, transistors, diodes (doped silicon), with the monolith.