Crop circle season arrives with a mathematical message

[drummer]

It is perhaps little known that the beautiful county of Wiltshire, famed for Stonehenge and the white horses carved into its hills, is the most active area for crop circles in the world, with nearly 70 appearing in its fields in 2009.

It is unsurprising then, that the appearance of a phenomenally complex 300ft design carved into an expanse of rape seed on a Wiltshire hillside has caused excitement. But it's not just the eye-pleasing shape which has drawn attention to it. The intersected concentric pattern has been decoded by experts as a “tantalising approximation” of a mathematical formula called Euler’s Identity (e ^ ( i * Pi ) + 1 = 0), widely thought be the most beautiful and profound mathematical equation in the world.

The design (pictured above) appeared beside Wilton Windmill late on Friday night. Lucy Pringle, a founder of the Centre for Crop Circle Studies, was one of the first on the scene. She says: “What has happened in this particular crop circle is that there are 12 segments and within each segment there are 8 partly concentric rings. Each of these segments indicates a binary code based on 0 and 1. If you use an Ascii Table [computer calculation system], the pattern transposes itself into a tantalising approximation of Euler’s equation.”

The average person finds such complex mathematical talk utterly confounding, so The Independent Online asked Dr John Talbot, a maths research fellow at University College London, for his take on the matter. He said: “Looking at the crop circle, the link with Euler’s most famous identity seems to make perfect sense. However, the way the formula has been executed is partially incorrect. One of the discrepancies is that one part of the formula translates as ‘hi’ rather than ‘i’, which could be somebody’s idea of a joke.”

The Wilton Windmill circle is not the first to have provoked mathematical exposition. In July 2008 a photograph of a crop circle near Barbary Castle (also in Wiltshire) caught the attention of retired American astrophysicist Mike Reed when he saw it in a national newspaper. He was struck by its shape and eventually concluded that it was a coded image representing the first ten digits of Pi (3.141592654), a conclusion declared to be a “seminal event” by Pringle at the time.

Sceptics dismiss crop circles as utter rubbish, but despite decades of research nobody knows conclusively how they’re made. As Francine Blake of the Wiltshire Crop Circle Study Group, explains: “The difficulty is that we don’t know the answer. It’s something that needs to be treated with great respect, but is too often talked about flippantly in the media which, I think, closes the subject rather than opens it.”

There has been extensive scientific exploration into the affect the circles have on nearby wildlife. Flowers and soils inside crop circles are dramatically altered, Blake explains. Pringle observed in a 2003 experiment that seed samples taken from inside a crop circle had 40 per cent higher protein levels than those taken from outside it.

Another interesting element is the nature of the soil on which the circles appear. Pringle says that 93.8 per cent of crop circles are made on chalk, "a worldwide phenomenon" recorded in 54 different countries. She says the significance may be connected to underground springs called aquifers commonly found in chalk: "It is thought that the originating force probably originates in the ionosphere (an area of atmospheric electricity). The force then spirals to earth in the form of a vortical plasma and hits the ground with some 100 of 1000's of volts per metre for just a nano second only, else the crop would be burnt. Occasionally we do see evidence of scorched flattened crop inside certain circles. The electromagnetic fields of both the underground springs and the descending force work in harmony or conjunction with each other."

Blake also remarks on the significance of the chalk, which she says the ancients often built their monuments on - an observation which the existence of Neolithic sites like Stonehenge and Avebury attest. She says the ancients also built their temples on “energy lines” and has observed that “crop circles always appear on or near these lines.” Blake was impressed with the Barbary Castle circle and its derivations because the shape itself was “like a Labyrinth,” which “gives it a spiritual as well as a mathematical tradition.”

Nobody knows for sure how crop circles are made. Reports of strange mists creating the complicated patterns in a matter of minutes, their connotations with little green men and Midwich Cuckoos and elaborate hoaxes have fostered a widespread unwillingness to take the idea seriously. This approach both feeds the mystery around the concept and prevents further exploration of it, as it is an area of research that is unlikely to be awarded large research grants or space on university courses. But, as Blake remarks: “There’s neither rhyme nor reason, they just keep coming.” And with crops nearly at their full height, the UK’s crop circle season is upon us. If you want to see for yourself Wiltshire is your best bet.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/thi...82647.html

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[beyond]

I haven't read anything about crop circles for the last few years (due to my lack of interesting in them), but still I'm amazed they keep showing up after all those years.

[FastTadpole]

This one appears to be easily man made due to the obvious track lines not to discount all of them. Nice work though.

[h3rm35]

yeah... that is remarkably bad placement if it was a hoaxer's decision to put it there?

[Nibiru]

Considering its wider than the distance between the tracks, and the tracks will be at the same distance apart from each other covering the entire feild I dont think it would matter where in the feild it was made it would still overlap the tracks.

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heres a different crop circle (2nd june 2010) in a different feild, but just to show you what I mean.

[FastTadpole]

I've seen lots of videos of people making crop circles for artistic fun. Some nicely done, highly mathematical and complex. They plan these months in advance. Many by groups of college students. I can't seem to find much of the fake stuff on the net but I have seen some pretty elegant designs done in short periods of time. The artists use the tram lines. It's a hoax listen to the way it is being spun in the alt-media. "Could it be aliens telling us to change our ways?" on shows from the likes of National Geographic, Sci-Fi and The Discovery Channel. Don't rule out the the light or magnetic technology is of human origin either. This is part of that fake alien agenda IMO so that we can bow down to our 'creators' or a guru and form that new world religion to form the basis for world governance.

Maybe aliens have visited us or even seeded the planet. Maybe some of the circles are legit but the way aliens have been promoted (maybe spun and twisted) lead me to conclude it is to set up another faith based control mechanism. Aliens are pretty mainstream now, 50%+ people believe they are walking among us and/or observing us. Whether they are or not is a side point if when there is a "first contact" or "re-visitation" be wary of the ends that are ultimately being promoted not only by the incident but the fallout, not only what is being revealed but what is hidden and not only what is be constructed in the wake but what is being destroyed.

This isn't the best example and it is still kind of spun but as far as 20 minutes of searching for a video showing how crop circles are faked this is the best I could do. The argument is heavily weighted (try searching on YouTube) in favour of the extra-terrestrial hand involved.

Doug and Dave making Crop Circles (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzvuqs9Bf7Q

[dyst0pia]

(06-06-2010 07:34 PM)FastTadpole Wrote:  I've seen lots of videos of people making crop circles for artistic fun. Some nicely done, highly mathematical and complex.

That's all good and fine. But how do you explain the various anomalies that occur with the circles? I will list a few below:

Quote:5. VISIBLE NODAL CHANGES: Nodes on the stems of plants from a formation often show nodal elongation or enlargement far beyond explicable natural causes, such as phototropism or negative geotropism. Sometimes, large holes or “expulsion cavities” are evident, where moisture has exploded out.



6. CELLULAR CHANGES: Over 90% of samples from formations studied every year show microscopic pit-holes in the nodal cells, indicating flash heating in a micro-second.



7. CARBON BLACKENING: Some plants in crop formations have been found covered with a thin layer of carbon.



8. GERMINATION CHANGES: Seeds from within a crop formation show marked differences in germination to that of control samples. The germination rate is either vastly increased, or slow and inconsistent, or even refuses to germinate at all.

9. perimeter stalks: Some stalks are pulled into the flow from beyond the perimeter stalks - this does not happen when the formation is made with boards or rollers.

10. CROP SELECTIVITY: It has been observed on several occasions that odd stalks of another crop, or sometimes, other plants, such as thistles, remain standing, while the crop is laid flat.



11. BENT RAPE STEMS: Early UK formations are often in oilseed rape, in which the stems are found to be bent right over. This is an impossible effect to hoax, since rape stems are very brittle. Some samples taken from formations continue bending into a 360 degree curl.



12. NITROGEN / NITRATE RATIOS: In 1995, the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service found an increase in the nitrogen/nitrate ratios inside some formations, but the ADAS department which did the tests was immediately shut down afterwards. This research has since been taken up again by Jim Lyons, who stated in 1998 that the results again showed an increase, and that they would soon be published. (I haven't found them yet).



13. TIME DILATION: 2 separate groups of experiments have been performed showing that clocks inside formations lose or gain time compared to those outside.



14. MAGNETIC ANOMALIES: Magnetic effects can be seen in some formations using a compass, which can deviate several degrees from true North. If a magnet is dragged round the formation, there will sometimes be iron particles found sticking to it. Also, minute, partially melted particles of meteoritic magnetite have been found in a centrifugally distributed pattern.



15. ELECTRO/MECHANICAL FAILURES: Many electronic gadgets have been found to fail inside crop formations, including cameras, video equipment, power-packs, and tape recorders. They often function perfectly just outside the formation. Several TV crews have picked up severe interference. Mobile phones, if the batteries work, often won’t transmit or receive in the formation. Combine harvesters have also broken down several times while harvesting formations.



16. PHOTOGRAPHIC ANOMALIES: Many photographic anomalies have occurred in formations, but the most inexplicable one shows a ghosting effect in part of the image; the people photographed inside a formation are recorded in 2 images, but in the ghosted one, they have moved relative positions!

These are the bulk of them, but there are more that cannot be explained away by merely playing the hoaxer card. Some may be the creation of drunk British guys, thought up in a pub, but you can tell from their quality which of these are fake from the real ones which are complex and free of mistake and just beautiful.

[FastTadpole]

That's a lot of food for thought. Never been much of a study for it as my interests lie in other areas. As a general rule if something has made it's way to the alt-MSM (YouTube) without being refuted it leaves me asking the question - why?

Now you present a big list there. A book? A video? An expert researcher? Did you check out the crop yourself? Is any of the list above based on first hand experience?

If you can't or haven't been able to prove it yourself, or haven't confirmed this with your own eyes - I'm afraid this falls in the hearsay category along with little green men and giant squids.

Crop patterns could also be a cover/ruse for something else that would be causing the distortions. The interference symptoms that are proclaimed seem to have something to do with electromagnetics.

Many of them are quite the sight though and I must say quite beautiful. In any case thanks for sharing. You quoted another site but didn't give the source URL - allow me. http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/anom.htm or possibly here http://2012.tribe.net/thread/f259e678-fa...c073d3b811

[persecuted in alberni]

I was wondering how many crop circles have tracks leading to the circles,how many circles are there that have been spotted and filmed that have no visible foot or vehicle tracks leading to or away from them.

The way I see it if aliens were trying to contact us they would be smart enough to know that if they want us to believe then they must do what they can to make sure we have a very hard time of disproving it.

So why place a circle over some tractor tire tracks or foot path which would then immediatly make us(smart people) suspect a hoax instead.?

When I see anytracks at all on crop circles I only except it as a farmers artictical talents coming to the surface,ones without any tracks leading to them can be taken a little more seriuos than those with tracks.

Have to admitt though this particular farmers is very talented and certainly must know his math and it is very beautiful.

[JFK]

Quote:So why place a circle over some tractor tire tracks or foot path which would then immediatly make us(smart people) suspect a hoax instead.?

Your "tractor tire tracks" are actually irrigation/fertilization boom tracks.

You'd be hard pressed to find a field in England ( or anywhere else today* ) suitable for crop circles without those tracks.

* check out maps.google.com for the US midwest and you will be surprised.