EUREKA - Roman army troops

[Cheyenne]

This topic is still going!

I have only re-read some of the later posts and have just returned from a conference on Prehistoric potentials for sacred geometry, philosophical implications etc.

When I was reading this, I was reminded of Robert Bauvals equations used when he wrote the Orion Mystery. Although some of his calculations were flawed in the book (he was arguing that the Giza Plateau in Egypt mirrors a scale model of the earth in its cosmos) - he too was attempting to crack 'codes' within esoteric texts relating to the harmonious nature of the universe of the Old Kingdoms of Egypt.

Archaeologists understand that a cosmology will evidently contain ratios and numbers that regulate the status quo in a non-Industrialised (or post medieval) society. But there are too many variables in the Ancient world which would render some of the maths you suggest, useless. War is a big factor - maybe the general numbering systems in use by the Roman army came through a divine tradition - but the later Empire saw massive changes in the structure of legions. How does a cosmology account for the introduction of a new 'official' religion where the ideas of golden section geometry and sacred equations were seen in a different light?

No matter how much the ancient scholars used the celestial and sub-lunary spheres to account for conventions in scientific knowledge (or the idea of events being time reversible), Human nature dictates that uncertainty and indeterminacy is the normal way of things - this was nothing new during the time of Aristotolian philosophy. (See Prigogine 1997, Koerner 2008)

It seems like your work is based around ideas that physics adheres to fixed laws of nature - and therefore the standard deviations of variability are unaccounted for. Work in quantum physics was blowing that idea out of the water as early as the mid 1970's and the sciences are slowly coming to accept that cosmology is a contingent and self organising system - much like the rest of human agency