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Graham Hancock 1995 Page272 Chapter 31 OSIRIS NUMBERS "It is Sellers's contention, eloquently expressed in her recent book, The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt, that the Osiris myth may have been deliberately encoded with a group of key numbers that are 'excess baggage' as far as the narrative is concerned but that offer an eternal calculus by which surprisingly exact values can be derived " SIRIUS OSIRIS ISIS IRIS 199189219 1519918919 919919 918919 199931 61999 9191 9191 999 999 99 999 8 x 9 72 7 + 2 9 ADDED TO ALL MINUS NONE SHARED BY EVERYTHING MULTIPLIED IN ABUNDANCE
LIGHT AND LIFE Lars Olof Bjorn 1976 Page 197 "By writing the 26 letters of the alphabet in a certain order one may put down almost any message"
JUST SIX NUMBERS Martin Rees 1999 A COMMON CULTURE WITH ALIENS Page 24 "A manifestly artificial signal-even if it were as boring as lists of prime numbers, or the digits of 'pi' - would imply that 'intelli-gence' wasn't unique to the Earth and had evolved elsewhere. The nearest potential sites are so far away that signals would take many years in transit. For this reason alone, transmission would be primarily one-way. There would be time to send a measured response, but no scope for quick repartee! Any remote beings who could communicate with us would have some concepts of mathematics and logic that paralleled our own. And they would also share a knowledge of the basic particles and forces that govern our universe. Their habitat may be very different (and the biosphere even more different) from ours here on Earth; but they, and their planet, would be made of atoms just like those on Earth. For them, as for us, the most important particles would be protons and electrons: one electron orbiting a proton makes a hydrogen atom, and electric currents and radio transmitters involve streams of electrons. A proton is 1,836 times heavier than an electron, and the number 1,836 would have the same connotations to any 'intelligence' able and motivated to transmit radio signals. All the basic forces and natural laws would be the same. Indeed, this uniformity - without which our universe would be a far more baffling place - seems to extend to the remotest galaxies that astronomers can study. (Later chapters in this book will, however, speculate about other 'universes', forever beyond range of our telescopes, where different laws may prevail.) Clearly, alien beings wouldn't use metres, kilograms or seconds. But we could exchange information about the ratios of two masses (such as the ratio of proton and electron masses) or of two lengths, which are 'pure numbers' that don't depend on what units are used: the statement that one rod is ten times as long as another is true (or false) whether we measure / Page25 / lengths in feet or metres or some alien units. As Richard Feynman noted, he could tell extraterrestrials that he was seventeen billion hydrogen atoms high' and they should understand him. Some 'intelligences' could exist with no intellectual.affinity us whatsoever. But any beings who transmitted a signal to must have achieved some mastery over their physical roundings. If they had any powers of reflection, they would surely share our curiosity about the cosmic 'genesis event' from which we've all emerged. They would be likely to interested in how our universe is structured into stars and galaxies, what it contains, how it is expanding, and its eventual destiny. These things would be part of the common culture we would share with any aliens. They would note, as we that a few key numbers are crucial to our shared cosmic environment. Six of these numbers are the theme of the present book. they determine key features of our universe: how it expands; whether planets, stars and galaxies can form; and whether there can be a 'chemistry' propitious for evolution. Moreover, the nature of our universe is remarkably sensitive to these numbers. If you imagine setting up a universe by adjusting six dials, then the tuning must be precise in order to yield a universe that could harbour life. Is this providence? Is it coincidence? Are these numbers the outcome of a 'theory of everything' that uniquely fixes them? None of these interpre-ions seems compelling. Instead, I believe that the apparent tuing' intimates something even more remarkable: that our observable universe - all we can see out to the limits of our scopes - is just one part of an ensemble, among which there is even a diversity of physical laws. This is speculation, but it is compatible with the best theories we have. / Page 26 / We know that there are planets orbiting other stars, just as the Earth orbits our own star, the Sun. We may wonder what habitats they offer. Is their gravity too weak to retain an atmosphere? Are they too hot, too cold, or too dry to harbour life? Probably only a few offer an environment conducive for life. So, on a much grander scale, there may be innumerable other universes that we cannot observe because light from them can never reach us. Would they be propitious for the kind of evolution that has happened on at least one planet around at least one star in our 'home' universe? In most of them, the six numbers could be different: only a few universes would then be 'well tuned' for life. We should not be surprised that, in our universe, the numbers seem providentially tuned, any more than we should be surprised to find ourselves on a rather special planet whose gravity can retain an atmosphere, where the temperature allows water to exist, and that is orbiting a stable long-lived star."
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