Friday, October 2, 2015
One Reader's Confirmation
The following e-mail I just received, and my response, may be of interest to readers here:
After buying your books over a year and a half ago, it seems the only conclusion I can make is that you are correct. I maintained some doubt (perhaps unreasonably) until I found where you noted the ENP on the ground in the Great Mapping and located a sphere rotation script on the web to check the points, but having done so I can only conclude that the Great Mapping is a projection of the (rotated) celestial sphere onto the Earth sphere.
I had already concluded that I couldn't really justify doubling [I think he means "doubting"-HDH] the probability of chance being the reason for each of the input probabilities in chapter six as long as the mapping was correct. Even doing so as a gedankenexperiment still leaves a number that isn't remotely reasonably the result of chance. Thus, I find the only reasonable conclusion is that the Earth was designed.
To check the star positions I used the rotation script noted below[1] with GNU Octave, and took my star positions from KStars. I ran the equatorial coordinates through the KStars equatorial->ecliptic converter, added 180 to the ecliptic longitude (at least that seemed to work for all my checks) and fed that to the rotation script.
The rotation script is a bit odd in that it asks for /South/ pole coordinates, not North pole, and that it asks for Longitude,Latitude. Thus, the rotated pole coordinates are ENP_lon - 180, -ENP_lat. I left out the actual coordinates because they are possibly the heart of the book, and I haven't seen you post them online.
Regarding the Milky Way core to South America comparison, that one I found a little more difficult to verify because I found four different outlines from four different sources - only one of which (nearly) matches yours. Still, with that much disagreement in conventional sources your outline is as reasonable as any I've seen. Even if one disregards that particular match probability calulation, I can't see that it meaninfully affects the overall calculations.
I did try looking up the etymology of Russia, and found that while the Ursa etymology is unsupported by recent history, I didn't immediately find a trace back to Indo-European. However, the history seems to be only well supported back to about 830AD, which leaves open the possibility of earlier Latin influence. Perhaps inconclusive, but highly interesting.
Regarding footnote 146 on page 121, I was a little surprised that you missed noting the archaic and no longer used Digamma that was the 6th letter in the dialects that had it, pushing Eta to the eighth position.
I probably could go on, but this is getting long enough already.
Thank you for being willing to hold to truth in the face of (nearly) universal opposition.
Tor
[1] http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/43435-rotated-grid-transform
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Good Morning, Tor,
Thank you for your feedback comments; they tell me that it is likely that any substantial conversation regarding the evaluation of my work, in finding and verifying--to the highest scientific standards--what I have called the Great Design of the "gods", must inevitably involve giving a full university-level course (perhaps even a four-year program) to thoroughly explain every aspect of it from the ground up, so to speak. I was slightly surprised, for example, to hear that you did so much work before you realized you were dealing with a projection of the celestial sphere onto the earth globe; I thought I had made that clear in the early chapters of "The End of the Mystery" (the "celestial sphere" itself is a projection of the actual stars onto an imaginary sphere surrounding the Earth, as shown in my Figure 3.2, for example); but I see I was mistaken. In trying to communicate my own sense of discovery at each early step of my research--including the discovery that I WAS dealing with a projection of the celestial sphere onto the Earth sphere--I introduced the idea of a "mapping" of the former onto the latter (on page 28), and then my discovery that one had only to use the mirror image of the constellation Cepheus in order to have it map precisely onto the African Horn (page 29, and Figure 2.15). I called this "mirror image" placing of Cepheus precisely on the shape of the African Horn "the second great discovery" (on page 30), precisely BECAUSE it meant a simple projection of the celestial sphere onto the Earth was involved; but I left that conclusion unsaid on that page, because I wanted to allow the reader to make that connection in their own mind, as I did when I first found the Cepheus/African Horn match (the precision of which, by itself, was enough to prove it was a deliberate design, using probability arguments like those used in Chapter Six and other chapters--which I also left unsaid). I thought, by the time the reader encountered Fig. 3.2, it would be clear to anyone that we were dealing, in the Great Mapping, with a mathematically precise projection of the one sphere onto the other; and the introduction of the "downward looking" view of the celestial sphere immediately after, and the later views of the Great Mapping (and many other projectional mappings, in Chapter 9) would cement that understanding. You have reminded me one book cannot do justice to the depth and breadth of the new/old knowledge--indeed, the new field of scientific study--I have discovered. Too many things along the way are inevitably left unsaid, or remain unaddressed, by any single book.
Of course, since the finding and verification of the Great Design changes the entire modern science paradigm--especially in the earth and life sciences, where uniformitarianism, Darwinian (undirected) evolution and plate tectonics are literally swept away as adequate explanations of the observable truth, about the Earth design--the necessity for a new major course of study, of this new scientific field, should be apparent.
I have not investigated your method for checking on the Great Mapping, and may or may not do so in the near future, so I won't comment on your efforts there, except to say congratulations on your desire to check for yourself, and your apparent confirmation of the Great Mapping as a real, and accurate, projection of the celestial sphere onto the terrestrial sphere. The mappings I discussed in Chapter 9 are likewise real, and precise, projections of the celestial sphere onto the Earth, all enabled by the deliberate design of the landmasses on the Earth, as an objective record of the deeds of the "gods", for a sufficiently advanced earthbound mankind to find and translate, as I have done.
The Milky Way outline I used in my research and in the book was that given by Wil Tirion, in the book "The Cambridge Star Atlas" (1998). He has been the most authoritative source for star charts for decades, and his charts are used in all of the several, and most widely available, sources I cited in "The End of the Mystery".
As to Russia, the main thing is to remember that I tried to use the most familiar material I could, as far as I could, in my research (with an eye to making it easier for the lay reader to either already know, or most easily check, the information I presented). With that in mind, the fact that Russia has traditionally, even commonly, been known as "The Great Bear" is all that needs to be said, when one sees that the constellation of Ursa, "The Great Bear", well stretches out over Russia in the Great Mapping. That alone tells one that that placement was deliberate, not by chance, and that the words "Russia" and "Ursa", so close in sound, must both come from the same original source, and that source is the Great Mapping (as is well confirmed by all the other matchups, of constellation names and names on the corresponding lands or other earth features, in the Great Mapping, I found).
Several years ago, one of the earliest buyers of my book wrote to me, also telling me about the extra letter that once put "eta" in the eighth place in the Greek alphabet. As I told him, I don't mind getting this independent confirmation of my claim about the identification of "eta" with "eight"; I used the current form of the Greek alphabet, again because that is what is out there today, for anyone to see. The way I look at it is, I already knew, from all those observations I listed on page 121 of the book, that there must be a reason why "eta" is only in the seventh place today, and my footnote was in the nature of a dare, or prediction, that that reason must and would come to light (as it did to you--see how easy that confirmation was? And you did it yourself, hence a truly independent confirmation on your part, and on the part of that earlier reader I mentioned).
Aloha Harry,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your reply. Regarding "doing so much work before realizing I was dealing with a projection of the celestial sphere", I apparently was unclear in my writing. You did make that very clear to me on the first reading - I believe even before, in your web writings that persuaded me to purchase your book. I did the work to prove to myself beyond doubt that your figures were indeed what my eyes (and your words) told me: a correct projection of the Celestial sphere onto the Earth Sphere.
Having demonstrated for myself that the Great Mapping is a correct projection, it is obvious that the other mappings are just different rotations of the Celestial Sphere relative to the Earth Sphere using the same images as the Great Mapping.
Regarding the Milky Way outline, I simply checked the rather random collection of books I had most ready to hand. That collection is drawn from a set that is particularly likely to include the worst books, so it isn't surprising that I would have a set or less-orthodox outlines.
In any case, as I demonstrated to myself, there is so much proof that no particular piece is of siginificant import relative to the whole of the probability calculations, which is exactly what makes the Design so persuasive. Indeed, as I've been looking for myself I find the chance of the sun pointer at the VE point being where it is (within about two arc minutes, according to google maps) to be on the order of one in ten million. To ascribe this to random processes is folly, as you have pointed out for so long.
As I have already put it elsewhere, "I have come to the conclusion that the probability that the duplication of forms and relative positions between the Earthly Sphere and the Celestial Sphere is due to chance is vanishingly small. Small enough that the only reasonable explanation is someone (or, better supported by myth, a group of someones) was on Earth before us who had the power to raft continents about the face of the Earth and reshape them to suit."
In honesty, the only reason I checked as thoroughly as I did is the maxim "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof". Despite that I have always been relatively ready to consider the possibility that science might be wrong, I wanted to not only see it, but see (and follow) the mathematical verification down to the fine level. If I couldn't find someone to do it, then I could figure out the spherical geometry sufficient to prove it for myself.
It seems I had misremembered your wording on the Russia connection when I checked - and I did find what you said quite readily on actually verifying that. Still, I find it rather interesting that the modern interpretation, though dismissive of the notion, doesn't preclude an earlier root connection to Ursa or similar.
Wrong though they may be, after going through with the task of demonstrating the Great Mapping to myself with the tools of conventional science I find I have more compassion for those who cannot see what is before their eyes. I have long been ready to consider unconventional ideas, and for over a year I have doubted the possibility of disproving the Great Mapping, finding only interesting possible confirmation (such as the position of "eta") and nothing but claims with no truly hard evidence for "disproof". Nevertheless, I found the leap from "I don't believe it possible to disprove" to "I have done the calculations and proved it for myself" larger and more unsettling than I anticipated.