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Codes Opening the Sealed Book Hmmm... This was posted on the message board earlier this week: hi. if you don't mind, i'd really like to hear the whole story. everything you got on it. everything. =] Yeah, I know the feeling. Well, brother (or sister), here's a peek back at a late-night conversation. It sure ain't the whole story, but it's a start. Note: My posts are signed in bold type. The John in the following conversation is not the same John I've previously referred to. Dear Mr. Dog Star, I found your four elements most intriguing. I especially liked how you pulled the atomic symbols out of the ten-lettered pseudonym you dba. Unfortunately, as you may or may not know, I've been lost in spacetime (again) and a bit out of touch with current events, so, I guess I missed the announcement concerning the discovery of Su. Us, who resolve to solve such riddles, will set our bookmark's half-life to return precisely at the scheduled, though seemingly random intervals. Until then, I remain, Periodically Stable - Kr - [24 Jul 98] - Dear Mr. Nosi G. Nature, Sorry about getting you lost with my map. It was very late and I forgot to include the point and frame to reference. Lacking such features, as you well know, North can never be true. But, verily, a woolly question remains curiously lodged in my vexillium... - Random McNally - [24 Jul 98] - A man is placed upon the steps / A baby cries And high above / The church bells start to ring And as the heaviness / The body / Oh the heaviness settles in Somewhere you can hear a mother sing Then it's one foot / Then the other / As you step out onto the road How much weight? How much weight? Then it's: How long? And how far? And how many times before it's too late? And every day / You gaze upon the sunset with such love and intensity It's almost / It's almost as if / If you could only crack the code Then you'd finally understand / What all this means But if you could / Do you think you would trade in all the pain and suffering? Ah, but then you'd miss the beauty of the light upon this earth And the sweetness of the leaving Jane Siberry / Calling All Angels And, while looking for something else I planned to add, it somehow caught my eye A CD entitled: A Maze of Grace And, as if it were a reply, I post the message Test for echo confirmed You taste the tears / You're lost in sorrow You see your yesterdays / I see tomorrow You see the darkness / I see the spark You know your failures / But I know your heart You see your shame / But I see your glory You've read one page / I know the story I hold a vision / That you'll become As you grow into the truth / As you learn to walk in love The dreams I dream for you Are deeper than the ones you're clinging to More precious than the finest things you knew And truer than the treasures you pursue Let the old dreams die Like stars that fade from view Then take the cup I offer And drink deeply of The dreams I dream for you Avalon / Dreams I Dream For You - 25 or 6 to 4 (plus one) - [24 Jul 98] - Oh heck, that can't be real. - 20/20 - [24 Jul 98] - Which part can't be real? - ThirdEye - [24 Jul 98] - It was like a red whoosh! - Roy Neary - [24 Jul 98] - Huh? The red whoosh Roy Neary saw was the part that can't be real in 20/20-Land? - BlindEye - [24 Jul 98] - Well, not a red whoosh exactly. More like... angels in the architecture. - Spinning in Infinity - [24 Jul 98] - Hmmm... So, can they be real... or can't they? - Questor - [24 Jul 98] - I guess that's for them to decide, isn't it? - 600-lb. Guerilla - [24 Jul 98] - Sorry. It's up to you or me. And since you passed without going, I'll roll. They're real! - Mike's Move - [24 Jul 98] - When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. Genesis 28:11,12 - The Good Bookie - [24 Jul 98] - Are what real? Why do you ask? - Lagsdrawk Cassaba - [24 Jul 98] - Sorry, Mellonhead, too late to protest a valid move. They're real. Hey, John, you wanna see how the Bible code works? Or have you already seen it? - Mike - [24 Jul 98] - I'm still trying to figure out how to spiral a string in three dimensions. Maybe if I work with Playdoh... - Egbert L. Seequince - [24 Jul 98] - Sorry Mike, my posts are registering sluggishly. I've been trying to keep up, but the intricacies of hyperdimensional statistics are beyond me. How did you say I'm supposed to wind the helix? - John - [24 Jul 98] - You kidding? Look at a spring. Now, think coil instead of spiral. - Mike's Mechanic - [24 Jul 98] - Are you Rabbi Mechanic? 'Cause if you are, I think my alternator is failing. - Sparky - [24 Jul 98] - Now now son, don't force it. - Dad - [25 Jul 98] - No, Sparky, I am merely a servant, trying to help both of us. It's time to stop alternating, so don't worry about that part. I got so frustrated at not being able to explain this, I took a sheet of drafting mylar, cut a long, thin strip, and wrote the first two verses of Genesis along this single line. No spacing or punctuation. All caps written as if it were a monospaced font, each letter centered in its own little, identical box. Try this. If you use the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible, we'll have the same line to compare and contrast. (Mylar's not critical. I just used it ‘cause it's dimensionally stable) There. Now pick up a cylindrical object I happened to use an old highlighter and wrap the long, thin strip of paper around the shaft, angling the paper so that the strip begins to coil down the shaft. If you don't have three hands, taping the beginning of the strip to the shaft helps. If this sounds confusing, take all the paper towels off the roll and tear it along the seam that coils around it. This will flatten into a thicker strip of paper, but you get the idea right? While I work on the next step, tell me if this makes sense. ps: you're right, Dad. I'm not letting it flow. - A B C / 1 2 3 - [25 Jul 98] - Sure, I understand what you're saying. It will just take a little time for me to accomplish, since I am a quadriplegic and must control my robot arm (and everything else) by blowing into this puffer straw. - Blowfinger - [25 Jul 98] - Careful. The only reason I dove so deep into this in the first place is that a dear friend (fireman, father, triathlete, etc.) broke his neck last summer. Answering with eye-blinks, he indicated he wanted to learn more about these strange "codes" I knew next to nothing about. He's a devout Christian, and the well of traditional Christian topics soon ran dry for me. I was unprepared to do a monologue. I brought up the topic out of sheer desperation. He's in that chair. You sent me non-mechanical arm writings via snail mail. If I've jumped on a wrong conclusion, let me know and I'll send the physical examples ASAP. Back in a few with my final post tonight. - Mike - [25 Jul 98] - Sorry, it's just taking awhile to do all the slicing and dicing. Are you sure this works with English translations? Remember, it was the actual letters of the Torah, and their precise sequence, that had to be meticulously preserved for thousands of years. Or are we just establishing some kind of control sample? - John - [25 Jul 98] - Addressing your last question only: It's a control sample. I'm almost done. - Mike - [25 Jul 98] - Okay, I've got the first two verses curled like a serpent around the tree of knowlege. - John - [25 Jul 98] - What do you know of lege? Now stop that. I'm almost done (again). - Mike - [25 Jul 98] - Now, the letters that once dwelled on a thin strip or string (think line as in one-dimensional object) now occupy a very definite three dimensional space (think cylinder). Rather than spinning the cylinder to read the text, try looking at letters as they now sit above and below each other, in vertical columns along the axis of the cylinder. If you got lucky, the nth letter "just happened" to fall directly beneath the first letter as the strip began its second trip around. In my case, the 16th letter ("O" ) fell directly below the first ("I"). If the letters were to fall in these almost perfect vertical columns (as in my example), this would represent a skip-sequence of 15. Fifteen letters between the letters of an encoded word. There's much, much more to say about this, but lets pretend it's not important at this point and that you arrived at the same equidistant letter sequence (ELS) of 15 in your example. Because it's hard to read, print, discuss, etc. the text once it's been converted to one (a very long one) or three dimensions, the next step is to "slice" the text cylinder along the major axis and get rid of that pesky extra dimension by "flattening" it into a nice, familiar rectangle, cleaning up the horizontal element so that the parallel lines of letters run perpendicular to the edge of the page like we're used to seeing. These steps are only taken after the ELS search routine has determined the skip sequence for a specific pair or group of related words. We're just making a prop, right? If we were to hold our cylinder vertically, with "In the beginning" at the top, the text "right reading" as it coils down the cylinder, and then sliced it just to the left of that first letter, we'd end up with a bunch of short little strips all over the place. So let's emulate the brainy guys and fake this step. You get: I N T H E B E G I N N I N G G O D C R E A T E D T H E H E A V E N S A N D T H E E A R T H N O W T H E E A R T H W A S F O R M L E S S A N D E M P T Y D A R K N E S S W A S O V E R T H E S U R F A C E O F T H E D E E P A N D T H E S P I R I T O F G O D W A S H O V E R I N G O V E R T H E W A T E R S I thought it was pretty cool that the first two verses just happened to be 150 letters long (I hadn't counted them), and that the ELS just happened to give me a nice neat 10 x 15 two-dimensional array. I sat back and looked at my three props: the strip with the long line of "contiguous" letters, the old highlighter to wrap the "line" around, and the small rectangular sheet of paper with the letters arranged in a precise grid, and was pretty pleased with myself. I figured it'd work. Oh yeah! There's one more step. I figured there'd be at least one word to use as an example of an ELS in conjunction with something else I was bound to find in that grid... something closely related to water would be best. I'd never realized what those two verses said until I wrote ‘em out long-hand a few times... Pretty damn intriguing... Reef! Right in the third column! Cool... Not proof-read. Late. Sleepy. - Mike - [25 Jul 98] - And then, after dreamland... Mistakes, confusing terminology, and omissions: Paragraph two (P2) in the last entry should read: "slowly rotating" rather than "spinning" P3: Omit second sentence. (an encoded word with an ELS of 15 has fourteen letters to skip in order to reach the fifteenth, thirtieth, forty-fifth letter, etc.) P4: "Flattening" entails unbending or unfurling the cylindrical shape after cutting along one face (the slice is parallel to the axis, of course) Okay. These props are supposed to represent something. They are physical examples to employ in order to understand how a series of visions might be recreated utilizing computer animation. We have a line, a rectangle, and a cylinder. I have yet to see anyone point out that these are one, two, and three-dimensional objects. Of course that's obvious, but it does seem to be leading somewhere... (All that follows is an extremely abbreviated version of the full story. Much is lost in this simplification, but the "flavor" of the beauty should survive) The line, our 150 letter line, represents the 304,805 contiguous characters of the Hebrew Torah. This unbroken stream of letters is the manner in which the Torah was supposedly transmitted to Moses. This is referred to as the "linear array." The cylinder, my highlighter, represents a "virtual cylinder" upon which the linear array is coiled. If the first letter of the linear array is fixed to the surface of the virtual cylinder, the manner in which various ELS's are arrived at is simply explained by varying the diameter of the cylinder. Our ELS of 15 is a very long, thin cylinder. Try to visualize the process. This is referred to as the "cylindrical array." The rectangle, our 10 x 15 grid, represents the cylindrical array after it has been sliced and flattened. Specific encoded information (in this initial search pattern) will always fall within a very small percentage of the total area. These "rectangular arrays" (seen in books and articles) are small portions of the much larger text field. At the very least, good computer animation could convey the elegance with which the original Artist "compressed" vast amounts of information within a very small package. Much confusion regarding reshaping and trimming the text could be eliminated. Oh, but there's so much more. Is this beginning to make sense? - Mike - [25 Jul 98] - If this beginning's to make sense, we'll need time to process. I'm just scratching the surface of what the Codes is all about, and how they are read. So far there are just a few names and the hint that all information is contained in the Torah. Quite a claim. More profound than that life is but a dream. Anybody ever see Jacob's Ladder? Anything can happen inside that kind of lifestyle. Don't go there, if you can avoid it. - John - [25 Jul 98] - On the other hand, given the embarrassing possibility that all of this is real, we'd better all wake up and realize that the subject of this discussion is nothing less than the object of desire of all living persons: Infinite Lossless Compression! Think about it folks, and what it means to who. Just by reading this, you could be generating a huge NSA file. - John - [25 Jul 98] - 'Course, under the Freedom of Information Act -- Wow. I think I just had an epiphany. I hereby predict that this archive will be lost, in order that it not be. Hands across the water will raise the signal to show the big movie in the sky. - John - [25 Jul 98] - Okay, I'm done now. Somebody say something that makes sense. - John - [25 Jul 98] - You're not done. You're just getting started, - Mike - [25 Jul 98] - So true... More to come. |