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Old 19-March-2008, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Van Rijn View Post
Right, it's Dutch Redux.
My thoughts exactly. I spent a lot of time getting to understand what he was doing, and this is just about exactly the same thing, only less complex.

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Here is a further new idea about why 12 is cosmically special. In the current thread Jupiter influencing sunspots , JimP has posted data on the regular barycentric cycle of period 178.9 years. The astounding thing about this solar period is that it is precisely 1/12 of an age (2147 years) and 1/144th of a Great Year. The earth’s precession is exactly correlated to the rhythm of the solar system.
The bold bit sort of bothers me though. Wow, it's both 1/12 of and age AND 1/144th of a great year? The length of an age is defined as 1/12 of a great year. Any relation to one will have a 1:12 relation to the other. Not that impressive when you really think about it. Also, how exact is it? is that 178.9 rounded at all? how about the 2147. If you intend to use a term like "Exact" and have it matter, then we need to know just how exact your "Exact" really is.
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