
Scientists and mathematicians were stunned the other day when a new crop circle appeared in a barley field in Wiltshire. When mathematicians analyzed it, they realized that the concentric shapes represented the coded image of a fundamental equation.
The 150-foot diameter image, found near Barbury Castle, an Iron Age fort, represented the first 10 digits of pi (3.141592654, for all of you who don’t remember high school or GCSE math) – the mathematical constant used to calculate the measurement of a circle. Pi equals the circle’s circumference divided by its diameter. You work out the circumference of a circle by multiplying the diameter by pi.
This is all the more remarkable because pi (or π., as it is represented in Greek) is one of of nature’s most amazing natural numbers. Pi fascinated mathematicians since the early Greeks, and it was Archimedes who was the first to investigate it rigorously.
Nature’s miracle
It’s an irrational number, which means that the decimals go on infinitely, but also do not repeat. And despite teams of math whizzes analyzing pi up to trillions of decimals using super computers, no pattern in the sequence of digits has ever been found. All our mathematical equations of a circle’s area represent only a close approximation of the truth.
Pi is considered as fundamental to an understanding our world as the Fibonacci, or Golden Mean (called Phi), a numerical pattern found in all of nature, whether the numerical way in which breeding animals reproduce, or the structure of plants. Leaves, seeds and petals are all placed at 0.618034 per 360-degree turn.
This kind of sequencing is even found in music. Mozart, who took a keen interest in mathematics, famously created a dramatic changes at Golden Mean moments: 61.8 per cent through a composition. Beethoven repeated the opening bars of his Fifth Symphony 61.8 per cent through the work. Similar patterns are found in the music of many cultures, most notably Indonesian music.
This is only the latest of sophisticated mathematical patterns found in crop circles. One of the most famous formations depicted the image of a complex set of fractals known as The Julia Set, in a field near Stonehenge, 12 years ago.
Gerald Hawkins, a British mathematician and archaeo-astronomer, has discovered designs in crop circles corresponding to previously unrecognized musical ratios, unknown in conventional geometry.
So why math —and how?
Colin Andrews, an electrical engineer and the world’s leading authority on crop circles, argues that crop circles result from the earth’s electromagnetic energy, after conducting extensive electromagnetic surveys of circle circles and discovered spikes of the earth’s electromagnetic fields of 120 per cent.
Biophysicist William Devengood has found that the stems of the plants in crop circles have consistently elongated stems, consistent with microwave radiation.
And a Boston team of investigators says that it is some unknown ‘quantum energy’, after finding anomalous changes in the soil – consistent with increases of temperatures of 600-800 degrees — even though the plants themselves, which are would be incinerated at such a heat, are left untouched. Other scientists such as Russian physicist Dr. Konstantin Korotkov, finds vast changes in the light emissions of humans when they stand inside crop circles.
A message from mother earth?
The fact that the latest crop circle design shows one of the fundamental ratios in nature suggests that crop circles are a physical and numerical representation of some natural order of which we are a part. We respond to crop circles, like nature or music, because they remind us that we are all connected. All of heaven is contained in this simple design – to remind us, in these dark times, of who we are.
As part of our tools for a new world project, I’d like to create an Earth Energies group, to discuss the effect of earth and planetary energies on us and our extended human potential.
For our first week, your thoughts, please, on crop circles.
* What is causing them?
* And why are they mostly found in southwest England, near the Neolithic sites of Averbury and Silbury Hill?
* How are we supposed to respond to them? As Colin Andrews says, “These perfect geometries may contain very important information; it’s up to us to discover why they are formed and what positive attributes they have for mankind.”
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