The Dance of Venus Ancient astronomers long ago discovered that Venus makes an intriguing journy accross the sky. It takes eight years, or thirteen Venusian years, for it returns to the same position it is found in today, and I mean exactly. It is such an accurate cycle that many cultures down the ages and in very different parts of the world have all noticed this and used Venus as a way of regulating their calenders. For example, there is a vast pre-historic site at Newgrange in Northen Ireland which, for hundreds of years, was thought to be some sort of prehistoric burial mound. More recent studies have shown that, whatever else it might have been used for, Newgrange is also a very precisely aligned Venus trap. Oce every eight years, and only for a very short period on that one day, the light cast by Venus when it appears at sunrise as the Morning Star passes down the long entrance tunnel and hits the wall at the back of the inner chamber that lies at the very center of this mound. It does this so regularly that the researchers who carried out their study claim its accuracy was only slightly improved with the invention of the Atomic clock. Putting scaled drawings of the mean orbits of the earth and mercury together on a piece of paper reveals an extraordinary correspondence between them. You can see the earths orbit is the bigger circle that contains the five pointed star. The smaller circle is the mean orbit of mercury, which sits within the orbit of the earth in such a proportion that it fits exactly over the five pointed star. If that were not itself astonishing enough, the same thing happens if a scaled drawing of the actual physical body of the earth is overlaid with scaled image of the body of mercury, once again, sits inside the circle of earths circumference in exactly the same proportion. The penatgon shape star is once again enclosed by mercurys cicumference. This may be a coincidence, but such is their precision it does begin to challenge the popular notion that we live in an accidental universe, especially when the same things happen at levels of the material world that we can not see without the aid of a microscope. For example, we are now all familiar with the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule. Deoxyribonucleic acid is present in nearly all forms of life and transmits all of our genetic information from one generation to the next. The less familiar image of the known molecule is the view taken from the top of the double helix. When we look down at the image it resembles Venuss journy accross the night sky. It is a swirl of patterns with ten protruding petals. if every other pedal is connected by a series of straight lines, once again what emerges is the same five pointed star. This five-pointed star, found in so many petal arraingements on flowers, appears constantly in the patterns and architectural designs in Islamic buildings as it does Christian structures and it also underpins the structure of some sort of the most familiar man made objects we know. Every so often we are still drawn to marvel at a eclipse of the Sun when the Moon, seen from Earth, is exactly the same size as the Sun. So, even in the sky, the grammer of Harmony is at play. This is all pretty remarkable evidence that there is a mysterious unity about the patterns found througout the whole of creation. From the smallest of molecules to the biggest of the planetary particles revolving around the Sun, everything depends for its stabilty upon an incredibly simple, very elegant geometric patterning-the grammer of harmony.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:12:17 +0000
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