Freaky Phenomena

=== Moon Over My Family Dept. ===

The Earth and Moon move together around the Sun every 365.25 days, with the Moon revolving around the Earth every 27.32 days— called the "sidereal" month. Is there any connection between these dual circular motions?

Stunningly, the reciprocals of the Earth's and Moon's orbits correspond exactly:

1/27.32 = 0.0366, and

1/366 = 0.002732

Another way to say this is that, while

The Moon's orbit around the earth takes 27.32 days

At the same time,

The Earth's orbit around the Sun takes 10000/27.32 days

In a leap year. While you're on this number, notice that:

The diameter of the Moon measures 0.273 Earth diameters

Notice also that

The acceleration of the Moon in its path around the Earth is 0.273 cm/s²

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=== Maybe the Moon Bought the Stadium Naming Rights ===

The number for absolute zero is not arbitrary. It is based on the Celsius temperature scale, which is based upon the freezing and boiling points of water.

Absolute zero is ?273.2° C, the point at which all motion stops .... and,

Gasses expand by 1/273 of their volume with every degree on this scale.

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Also notice that:

A human fetus spends exactly 273 days—10 sidereal months—inside the womb

The mean for female menstrual cycles is regarded to be 27.3 days. Why should the female cycle be so closely connected to the moon's orbit? Speculation used to be fairly mainstream that the moon somehow influenced the reproductive cycle, but the current scientific consensus is that this relationship of

Moon orbit x10 = 273 = Human Gestation

is nothing but coincidence.

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=== In Visual Terms, 1.273 = Square / Circle ===

The number 0.2732 has a very direct relation to the number Pi: it is the percentage by which a square is larger than a circle (of the same "diameter").

So 0.2732 can be calculated by very simple geometry alone, and in fact represents one of the simplest proportions in geometry, the circle to the square:

Inscribe a circle within a square ... 0.2732 is the simple ratio between the area of the remainder of the square after the circle has been cut out, and the area of the circle itself.

In other words, if you cut a perfect circle out of a perfect square, the "remnant" material is 27.32% the area of the circle. For a circle of diameter 2 inches inside a square whose side is 2 inches long, the ratio is (4-p)/p = 0.2732.

The earth-moon system is therefore a live-action illustration of the relationship between a circle and a square -- all of these 2732's "state" how much larger a square is than a circle, one might say.

The Earth's orbit, and the Moon's orbit, and the Moon's/Earth's diameters, and the Moon's acceleration, and the value of absolute zero, and the human pregnancy, all precisely "state" how much larger a square is than a circle.

For quick-reference documentation of the above, see New World Encyclopedia on the subject.

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=== 237 Is Popular with Other Numbers, Too ===

We might add, as editors, that:

273 is a sphenic number (the product of three prime numbers, 3, 7, and 13)

and so its Mobius function is -1.

and that

273 is a repdigit (a natural number composed of repeated digits of the same number) in base 9:

273 is notated as 333 in base 9.

As well,

273 is notated as 111 in base 16

273 is notated as DD or 13 13 in base 20

273 is notated as 77 in base 38, and

273 is notated as 33 in base 90.

273 is notated as the nicely symmetrical number 100010001 in base 2.

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We checked to see: did anything notable occur in the years -273 and +273 years before and after Christ's birth? Not that we can tell, no.

In the years -273 and +273 years before and after Christ's death? Well, +273 years after His death was the year that the Roman Empire declared war on Christians, for what that's worth.

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The area of our galaxy is 273 decillion square miles.

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=== Not Your Average Quirks List, Dept. ===

Most numbers have distinctive properties, but compare (for example) the lists found here -- particularly their entry for 273 -- to the list above for the single number 273.

Cheers,

jemanji

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images:

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http://www.zefdamen.nl/CropCircles/Reconstructions/2002/Sompting02/sompt...

 

Though I (jemanji) do not see this 'freaky phenomenon' as anything other than coincidence, it is entertaining when viewed as a 'karmic echo'. Did Lincoln leave unfinished business? Beginning, purpose, and ending of careers: Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were:

Elected in 1860 and 1960 Catalysts for the two most important pieces of civil rights legislation (Emancipation Proclomation and eventual Civil Rights Act, 1963) Shot by enemies of the United States (Booth a Confederate sympathizer, Oswald a Marxist) First elected to Congress in 1846 and 1946, respectively Both were runners-up for the party's nomination for vice-president in '56 Both were shot in the head, on a Friday, in the presence of their wives Booth supposedly ran from a theater and was captured in a warehouse, while Oswald ran from a book warehouse and captured in a theater ... Both assassins were themselves assassinated -- by religious zealouts -- before they could go to trial, and both men had three names with 15 letters Both Presidents were succeeded as President by Southern Democrats named Johnson (Andrew and Lyndon) -- who each won a single re-election term -- and then declined to run for a second term Both Johnsons were born in -08 (1808 and 1908) and supposedly had kidney stones -- the only two Presidents to suffer from this malady

'Echoes' in the Presidents' family lives include:

Both men waited until their middle 30's to marry Both men married socially prominent women who were 24-year-old brunettes who spoke fluent French and were famous for fashion sense Both Lincoln and Kennedy were 2nd children, named after their grandfathers Both had a son die while President Two of Lincoln's sons were named Robert and Edward (the names of the other two famous Kennedy brothers)

Other 'echoes' include:

Both men were celebrated for being unusually well-read; both were especially interested in law, Shakespeare, and the Bible Both had congenital diseases - Kennedy with Addison's Disease, Lincoln supposedly with Marfan Syndrome Neither man was much interested in personal security, to the dismay of their Secret Service retinue Both men were involved in debates that were among the most famous of all time: Lincoln with Douglas, Kennedy with Nixon Both selected a Billy Graham as key advisers (Lincoln's friend an Illinois schoolteacher) Both joined the military and skippered boats (Lincoln the Talisman; Kennedy the PT 109)

Among the most entertaining coincidences involve their successors as President; Andrew Johnson's career did indeed parallel Lyndon B. Johnson's, perhaps because of the nature of the career of an unelected precedent and because of the similarities between Lincoln's and Kennedy's preferences. Here is an excellent site that draws many parallels. Many other coincidences exist, most of a more-trivial variety, such as "Andrew and Lyndon both have six letters," "Lincoln and Kennedy both have seven letters," "both were with one other couple when assassinated, and the male acquaintance was injured but not killed," "both First Ladies renovated the White House," etc. . === Coincidence? === There are times when "synchronicity" can be measured statistically, but this is not one of them. For example, Lincoln's sons were named Robert and Edward, but we would have "included" this coincidence if it had been Lincoln's uncles -- or cousins, or grandchildren, etc. When calculating probability, we need a denominator in the fraction. Many of these coincidences can't even conceivably be assigned a denominator. The set of coincidences themselves can't be compared to a larger pool of possible coincidences. For example, we included their first elections to Congress -- but how about the time they got their first job? How many such non-coincidences occurred? We don't know. We do know that their careers were a nice even 100 years apart, so that many of their career milestones will track about (or exactly) 100 years apart. Snopes.com has a fine presentation of the type of reasoning that dismisses the pattern. ............... At the same time, the Lincoln-Kennedy parallels have an uncommon charm to them. Exactly 100 years later, the other major Civil Rights President emerges, has a fairly similar personality and set of life experiences, lives much the same kind of life and has the same death. A weird synchronicity in U.S. history. Cheers, jemanji ................. image: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99sep/images/9909lincoln.jpg

The gravitational constant, in terms of force, is "set" at:

G = 6.674 * 10 (-11th power) * N * (m/kg)(2nd power).

In layman's terms -- helpful, since I'm a layman :- ) -- there is a certain "amount of pull" between two objects with mass. We refer to this "amount of pull," or "attractional force," as gravity. How hard do objects pull together? It is in proportion to the products of their masses and is inversely proportional to the squares of the distance between them. In other words, the Sun would pull on Jupiter much harder than the Earth pulls on the moon, but you also have to factor in distance: Jupiter is much farther away in this comparison. This is a fairly simple relationship (not measurement) and is referred to as Newton's constant. Newton understood the relationship that he diagrammed, but of course did not measure its strength or weakness. Another way to speak of the strength of this constant was given in the January 5, 2007 issue of Science (page 74), where J. B. Fixler et al described the gravitational constant as

G = 6.693 × 10^?11 cubic meters per kilogram second squared, with a standard error of the mean of ±0.027 × 10^?11 and a systematic error of ±0.021 × 10^?11 cubic meters per kilogram second squared

So, as the amount of force a weightlifter is exerting can be measured by the pounds on the barbell, the amount of force that gravity is exerting can be described as above. ................... What you might not have spent much time reflecting on is this: is that the amount of this pull could have been "set" to a stronger or weaker force. A man who weighs 200 lbs. might have weighed 205 if the attractional force were stronger, or 195 if the pull had been weaker. Silly to spend your time thinking about things like this? Interest in such questions -- "What if the speed of light were 10 times slower or faster?" -- has set the Einsteins and Newtons apart from other scientists. A man who weighs 200 lbs. might very easily have weighed 1,000,000 lbs, in fact, if the strength of the gravitational constant had been "set" to a strength comparable to that of other natural constants. Meditate on that for a few minutes ... :- ) ................ At first glance, science students tend to assume (intuitively) that if the natural constants were different, then everything else would have simply evolved differently to accommodate. For example, if gravity were 1,000 times stronger, then men "weighing" 200 lbs. would simply be strong enough to move around despite weighing as much as a building. That, or perhaps life would evolve only on much smaller planets. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are many ways in which even the smallest changes to the natural forces would make any life impossible. The "tuning" of the gravitational constants -- the "tweaking" of these constants so as to "enable" the existence of living organisms that feed, breathe, grow, and reproduce -- is one of the oddest phenomenon of the universe we observe. Astrophysicist Hugh R. Ross, Ph.D (reasons.org) lists dozens of such tunings of natural constants and physical balances, including:

magnetic field

• if stronger: electromagnetic storms would be too severe; too few cosmic ray protons would reach planet’s troposphere which would inhibit adequate cloud formation
• if weaker: ozone shield would be inadequately protected from hard stellar and solar radiation

atmospheric pressure

• if too small: liquid water will evaporate too easily and condense too infrequently; weather and climate variation would be too extreme; lungs will not function
• if too large: liquid water will not evaporate easily enough for land life; insufficient sunlight reaches planetary surface; insufficient uv radiation reaches planetary surface; insufficient climate and weather variation; lungs will not function

level of supersonic turbulence in the infant universe

if too high: first stars will be of the wrong type and quantity to produce the necessary mix of elements, gas, and dust so that a future star and planetary system capable of supporting life will appear at the right time in cosmic history

• if too low: first stars will be of the wrong type and quantity to produce the necessary mix of elements, gas, and dust so that a future star and planetary system capable of supporting life will appear at the right time in cosmic history

... and 151 other fundamental "tunings" with respect to life on Earth particularly. But perhaps the freakiest, and most cognitive-dissonant, of all of these "tunings" occurs in the gravitational constant, with respect to the Big Bang. See G and the Big Bang

On June 30, 1908, at 7:17 A.M. local time, the largest explosion in history occurred in the forests of Siberia. Though the explosion occurred in 1908, the scene was not investigated until 1930, when Soviet scientists trekked to the North of Siberia. What they found was a vast scene of cognitive dissonance. Though the explosion had obviously been unimaginable -- the yield is today estimated at 5-30 megatons (!) and remember, nobody would see even a low-yield atomic bomb for 15 more years -- the scene was full of anomalies. These are the indisputed facts of the catastrophe:

1. The blast force was in the vicinity of 15 megatons. It was the largest impact event in recorded history, including from modern nuclear testing. 2. There was no trace of any impact crater. 3. Trees at ground zero were stipped of bark -- but still standing. 4. Sampling of plants, water, and earth yielded few clues or residual matter; the clues that resulted tended to be inconsistent with the theory of a large impact. 5. Around 80,000,000 trees from 3 to 10 miles away from ground zero were knocked over, their tops falling away from ground zero. The total area of scorched trees was about 30 miles in diameter. 6. The resulting earthquake would have registered about 5.0, if the Richter scale had been devised at the time.

Here is an account of the explosion, attested by S. Semenov who was 40 miles south of ground zero (footnote 1):

"At breakfast time I was sitting by the house at Vanavara trading post, facing North. [...] I suddenly saw that directly to the North, over Onkoul's Tunguska road, the sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest. The split in the sky grew larger, and the entire Northern side was covered with fire. At that moment I became so hot that I couldn't bear it, as if my shirt was on fire; from the northern side, where the fire was, came strong heat. I wanted to tear off my shirt and throw it down, but then the sky shut closed, and a strong thump sounded, and I was thrown a few yards. I lost my senses for a moment, but then my wife ran out and led me to the house. After that such noise came, as if rocks were falling or cannons were firing, the earth shook, and when I was on the ground, I pressed my head down, fearing rocks would smash it. When the sky opened up, hot wind raced between the houses, like from cannons, which left traces in the ground like pathways, and it damaged some crops. Later we saw that many windows were shattered, and in the barn a part of the iron lock snapped."

Speculation on the cause is an industry both in printed books and on the internet: UFO explosion? "I need more power, Scotty!" "I kinna hold 'er togetha inny longa, Keptin!" UFO buffs often view alternative explanations as cover-ups. Just for fun, we might note that although it's hard to imagine anything happening to stress a UFO "warp coil" :- ) once it's gotten to earth after a long journey ... still, simple malfunctions could be attributed. Black hole collides with earth? Accounts such as "the sky split" and the multiple waves of energy have sparked the speculations revolving around sci-fi applications of laws of physics. Albert A. Jackson and Michael P. Ryan, credentialed physicists at the University of Texas, maintained that a black hole passed through the earth. The questions here would be, where was the exit event, and where are the cataclysmic effects to the earth's mantle? Speculations have included theories revolving around antimatter falling to earth. However, there is no evidence for the existence of "chunks of antimatter" in the Milky Way galaxy. Russia explodes an H-bomb four decades early? If you are interested in the general field of anachronisms, this explanation might interest you. But it is hard to imagine Stalin's Soviet Union not exploiting such technology in, say, 1940. As well, the entire Soviet research industry of the 1920's and 1930's becomes nothing but a vast, flawless coverup. ............... The scientific consensus is that a "lightweight" (low-density) asteroid exploded about 5 miles above the forest. The asteroid may have been composed of space debris and ice, and when the ice melted in the atmosphere, the explosion occurred. The asteroid therefore would not have hit the ground, though the shock wave would have. The hypothetical speed of the asteroid is placed at around 7 miles a second. The shock wave was easily equivalent to that of 2,000 Hiroshima bombs; if the asteroid had arrived 4 hours and 47 minutes later, all of St. Petersburg would have been destroyed, every human being killed for at least 10 miles in any direction. Opponents of this theory, of course, point out aspects of the evidence that are not consistent with this understanding. .............

Slight alterations of the trajectory or timing -- if the Tunguska explosion be due to an asteroid -- would have wiped out London, Rome, or Munich, in nature's equivalent of a (mega-) nuclear strike. As it was, not a single human life was lost. The Earth caught a very, very big break in 1908. ................... Astronomers tell us that if Jupiter weren't serving as a "shield" for Earth, then the Earth would suffer 1,000 times more asteroid hits than it does. The craters on the surface of the moon are sobering. None of us worry much about asteroids. An odd serendipity that Earth's citizens live their lives free of fear from asteroids. Cheers, jemanji ......... (1) N. V. Vasiliev, A. F. Kovalevsky, S. A. Razin, L. E. Epiktetova (1981). Eyewitness accounts of Tunguska (Crash)., Section 6, Item 4 bottom image: http://www.psi.edu/hartmann/pic-cat/images/488_Tunguska-A_Minute_After_E... (artist's rendition, of course)