Preview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHiad18ZwcY
Please /sci/ help me out here. Why is this bullshit OR why is this not more popular?
Alan claims to have rediscovered the "universal unit of measure" connecting "foot", "cubit", and "meter" as well as claiming there are encoded constants on this page that haven't been discovered in 1609...
"Maths" are on his website here: http://www.tobeornottobe.org/math
>>9069029
>13 minute video
can I get a quick rundown?
>>9069031
I did - the attached picture and my description.
The main point being things like the constant "e" weren't discovered until Bernoulli is credited for it's discovery in 1683
Brun's constant is 1919
>>9069045
e is dimensionless, length is not.
This sounds dodgy.
two proposals:
>coincidence
if you try hard enough looking at relations between random points, you'll eventually find osmething that seems significant. think of all the different points he could have chosen to draw lines from. the periods after the Ts, the i in william, the i in imprinted... he's cherrypicking ones that seem interesting by coincidence
>confounding effect
humans lay out visual elements according to nebulous rules of what looks good to our eyes. the fact that mathematically interesting ratios appear could be a consequence of visually pleasing proportions also having interesting ratios, and not a result of some hidden message by the publishers
>>9069329
It's the ration between lengths which produce the constant approximations...
you know like...22/7 approx. = to pi
>>9069481
>It's the ration between lengths which produce the constant approximations...
Even allowing for that typo, what does this even mean?
>>9069342
For both proposals I'm left to offer this as a counter argument - with increasing "coincidences"
how long does it take for it to be purposefully encoded vs. an artifact of human "nebulous" rules or coincidence?
E.g. - I could draw a cube because it's pretty. The figure itself defines itself, it's rules, it's nature, etc.
I'd posit to say you can know the significance of something without knowing what it is....but you don't encode it along with other "significant" things without this knowledge.
>>9069482
Make a triangle with legs (a=22) and (b=7).
a/b ~= pi