superstrings links

external links to sources of note

the elegant universe
The Official String Theory Website
Beyond String Theory
Superstring Theory Homepage
Introduction to Superstring Theory by John H Shwarz
Duality, Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics
Calabi-Yau Homepage
NASA’s page on supersrings
The Second Superstring Revolution
M-Theory
Library of H-Alexandria

wikipedia
string theory
superstring theory
the elegant universe
list of string theory topics
Calabi-Yau manifold

animated knots
wikipedia’s list of knots
quipu, and Incan time-keeping device
Decorative Knotwork (E. Asia)
Celtic Knot

December Solstice 2012

Links to do with the Mayan End Date

Ask an Astronomer: re - 2012

NASA - 2004 and 2012 transits of Venus

Countdown to and Background on 2012

John Major Jenkins, 1994 Why 2012?

Jonathan McGregor Bethel 2012 Eschaton

London UK Olympics 2012

All About 2012

December 21 2012

Apocalypse 2012

Library of H Alexandria

The Year 2012 Blog

Wilson’s Almanac on 2012
and 2012 links

Diagnosis 2012
incl
star-map-to-ground correlation at Giza in 2012
Great Pyramid of Giza as 2012 indicator
astronomical phenomena in 2012

2012 Web Ring

Galactic Connections

Aztec, Aries to Pisces, Peter Paul Rubens, Benjamin Franklin, Jean Limburg
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from Ammawell’s fine art collection:

The Milky Way, by Peter Paul Rubens

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from Mexico Lore

The face on the headdress belongs to the Star Dragon, which represents the Milky Way.

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from the American Library of Congress

Benjamin Franklin’s chart of the zodiac mapped to the body

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from Faksimile Verlag Luzern

The Anatomy of Man by Jean Limburg

Aligning the I-Ching with the Lunation of the Moon, Sunspot Cycles & Precession of the Equinoxes

Cycles of 384, 64 and 13.

for the purposes of numerology in the exercise below
a Lunation takes 29.53 Days measured from the New Moon
a minor Sunspot Cycle takes approximately 11.2 Years measured from the minimum number of sunspots.
a Day’s a day and a Year’s a year.

Using the mathematical equation:

6 x 64 = 384 Days

* where 6 = the lines of the I-Ching hexagram
* where 64 = the number of hexagrams represented by the I-Ching
* where 384 = both the number of lines represented by the I-Ching, and the number of Days in 13 Lunations

6 x 64 x 64 = 24 576 Days
= 13 x 64 Lunations
= 6 minor Sunspot Cycle
(~ 67 Years 104.25 Days)

6 x 64 x 64 x 64 = 1 572 864 Days
= 13 x 64 x 64 Lunations
= 6 x 64 = 384 minor Sunspot Cycles = 13 ???
(~4 306 Years)

6 x 64 x 64 x 64 x 6 = 9 437 184 Days
= 13 x 64 x 64 x 6 = 384 x 64 x 13 Lunations
= 384 x 64 minor Sunspot Cycles
= 1 Precession of the Equinoxes
(~25, 836 Years)

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Sunspot Links
from the National  Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
NOAA Satellite and Information Service
list of ancient sunspot observations from 165 BC to 1684 AD
the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Solar Influences Data Analysis Center (SIDC)

from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
solar physics
the sun in time
solar cycle prediction
space weather
sunspot numbers

Moon Cycle

Tracing the Moon through History
Fourmilab’s Calendar conversion page

Chinese Calendar from Julian Date 758 325
Wednesday March 8 2637 BCE (Julian Proleptic Calendar)

Hebrew Calendar from Julian Date 347 997
Monday October 7 3761 BCE (Julian Proleptic Calendar)

Islamic Calendar from Julian Date 1 948 436
Tuesday July 16, 622 CE (Gregorian Calendar)

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Other links of interest:

NASA’s Calendar Page
The Moon and Ancient Calendars
Martindale’s Calculators on-Line Center - Astrophysics, astronomy & space science

World’s Oldest Solar Eclipse on Record - 3340 BC
“The Irish Neolithics used a 4044.5 day lunar eclipse cycle which is broken up into 365 days x 11 years + 29.5 days (synodic lunar month). This is also similar to a Tritos/Nova Lunation combination of one Tritos cycle of 3986.63 days and two nova lunations of 29.53 days each, yielding a total of 4045.69 days”

Aztec Calendar and Aztec Sun Stone Links

geometry of the planetary motions carved into the geometry of negative space

good introduction to the Aztec Sun Stone and the Aztec Calendar
wikipedia’s entry - generally a good starting point

mysteries of the fifth sun
A history of an ancient civilization etched in stone.
The Aztec sun stone
geometry, Venus, Mars Earth and the Aztec Sun Stone

Month 0 Day 2 - new link

Venus, 584 Days, Pentagram

Explanation of the 584 Day Cycle of Venus, and the Points of the Pentragram it Draws in the Sky from the Grand Masonic Lodge of British Columbia and the Yukon

Time and Health

The Next Cycle - a Pre-logue.

TheAbysmal Year -7: Gregorian Year December 22 2005 - December 20 2006, has seen the development of a 13-Month Calendar to Re-form the International Standard Measure of Days to replace the Gregorian Calendar. The structure of the 13-Month Calendar was used to schedule the development of this project.

TheAbysmal Year -6: Dec 22 2006 - Dec 20 2007
the intention is to develop a cohesive holistic model of time, health, and urban living, with the Reform Calendar’s structure as the skeleton upon the which is to rest.

Most of the information contained herein was principally inspired by the Mayan Factor, by Jose Arguelles, the Tortuga and Law of Time 13-Moon change for peace movements. A holistic model of healthy living, within the limits of our environment, with the calendar as the central structure in the name of Peace, has been developed, and continues to grow.

TheAbysmal Reform Calendar seeks to use the structure of the most eloquently constructed Calendar system to offer as the International Standard, while still allowing for localised & individualised names for months, glyphs, years, and so on.

The New Year shall see the investigation of Human Development from Birth through Death, and mapping it onto the calendar, as well as creating a holistic model of dietary and preventative health based on diet, the time of year, the amount of daylight and so on, as with Chinese Traditional Medicine, Ayurveda and Macrobiotic Diets.

More recipes, particularly with fresh herbs, seeds, and flowers.

Time & Health Articles Previously Published:
Space Time & Medicine - book excerpts
Definition of Health
Gestation Time & Health - 260-Day Gestation, 260-Day Calendar
In Utero, Ex Utero - 260 Days, Weeks, Months, Years, Centuries
Ayurveda and the 3 embryonic membranes
Ayurveda and Allopathic Medicines
The 5s of Traditional Chinese Medicine
360 degrees of Space & Time

2230 Days until Inception

Months, Constellations and the Zodiac

Correlating Zodiacal Symbols according to symmetrical elegance.
365-Day Calendar

Using the imagery and symbolism from the books of Ezekiel & Revelation, there is a resonance with the Synaptic Reform 365-Day and 360-Day Calendars. The passages in question, are most pithy here:

“I saw a windstorm coming out of the north-an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like 4 living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man, but each of them had 4 faces and 4 wings”

” they did not turn as they moved.”

“Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.”

The important bits to note: 4 beings, man, lion, ox, eagle.

Here are the symbols for the signs of the Babylonian Zodiac, for both the 12 and 13 signs (where Ophiucus is symbolized by the Eagle, and represented with an X) arranged, as per convention, with the Northern Winter Solstice at the bottom.

Projecting this one step further, to overlay the 13 zodiacal signs on the 13 Reform months, with the 8-spoked wheel indicating the Solstices, Equinoxes and Midway Days, we get the following.

The circled months contain the midway days. Curiously, they fall in the months assigned to Taurus, Leo, Ophiuchus and Aquarius. In the book of Ezekiel the faces of an ox, lion, eagle and man.

Libra has the distinction of being the only symbol that is not a living creature. Distinctive because zodiac means circle of animals. This puts Libra in the centre with six symbols to each side, truly a balanced fulcrum then.

This, at least in terms of a working symbol-system may suit the designations of the 13 months - however, there’s more than one way to wrangle the Ecliptic.

Previous Entries:
13 months, constellations and the zodiac
Ophiuchus, the 13th sign of the Zodiac
Taurus - Leo - Eagle - Aquarius

Biblical Source:
Ezekiel’s Wheel
Revelation 12 - 22

Image of Ezekiel’s Temple

360-Day Calendar

The Constellations and the 360-Day Calendar

New Calendar Links

Calendar Symbolism, World Calendars, and Treatments on Time.

Calendar Symbolism Resource Links:

interpreting symbolism
mystical time
indus astronomy symbols
religious seasonal days of celebration and holy days.
zodiac and the bible
astrology - as above so below
the equinox project
wheel of the year
byzant - wheel of change
i-ching and cycles of time
yin yang the year and the symbol

World Calendars:

kalacakra calendar
sequani calendar
shawui - sacred essence calendar

History:
the schoyen collection of calendars and almanacs

Holocene and Geological Timelines

Calendar Reform: including longer measures of time

see also: Long Times

These are roughly the periods of Geological Time, as the results remain speculative. Given a certain degree of wiggle room with the time intervals (licentiousness refrained), what numberological system would best befit these Periods & Eras?

13 x 20 x 100 years = 26, 000 years = 1 estimated Precession of the Equinoxes

26, 000 years reflects the 13 x 20 days it takes for a human being to come to birth.

Can a similar reflection in time be made with the following delineations?

Interval	Period	Era	Interval
800 my	Hadean		800 my
300 my	Isuan		300 my
700 my	Swazian		700 my
350 my	Randian		350 my
250 my	Huronian		250 my
550 my	Animekean		550 my
850 my	Riphean		850 my
40 my	Vendian	Sinian	230 my
190 my	Sturtian
60 my	Cambrian	Paleozoic	326 my
71 my	Ordovician
31 my	Silurian
46 my	Devonian
73 my	Carboniferous
45 my	Permian
42.5 my	Triassic	Mesozoic	183.2 my
61.5 my	Jurassic
79.2 my	Cretaceous
64 my	Tertiary	Cenozoic	65.64 my
1.64 my	Quaternary
Today

10, 000 - 15, 000 year timeline - Holocene

544, 000, 000 year timeline
Geological Time & Paleobiology

14, 000, 000, 000 year timeline
The Great Story - Universally Inclusive Creation Story

15, 000, 000, 000 year timeline
Universal Timeline

Excellent chart of Era, Period, Sub-Period, Epoch, and Age
Some key Points in Our Timeline:

14-15, 000, 000, 000-ish years ago - Universe Created

11, 000, 000, 000-sh years ago - Milky Way & first Stars Created

5, 000, 000, 000 years ago - our Sun ignites

4, 600, 000, 000 years ago- Earth & Planets form

4, 500, 000, 000 years ago - Moon from Earth

3, 800, 000, 000 years ago - first life on Earth

~13, 000 years ago agriculture
Humans domesticate:
goats, sheep, pigs, chickens, cattle, horses, camels, donkeys, elephants, wheat, barley, rice, millet, corn, squash, peppers, beans, amaranth, quinoa, peanuts.