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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
astonishing facts but unfounded and illogical conclusions., 28 Nov 2007
Firstly I'm not sure if I'm a critic or a supporter of this book. I've given it 4 stars because the actual data and numbers that are given are extremely interesting and need to be known by the world. The ratios of days, orbits and diameters, are correct, even if not worded properly: "The moon is exactly 400 times smaller than the sun" should be "the diameter of" the moon, sun etc.
There is clearly something in this that needs further research, but there are a couple of things that bother me about the book.
I personally will not come to a conclusion about what all this means until I have analyzed it far more thoroughly. I might never come to a conclusion about it ever, unless there is an actual fact that proves or disproves something.
That is my main problem with this book, the conclusions the authors come to, have no evidence to support them, its pure speculation. Don't get me wrong, the planetary mechanics and ratios are amazing, and are far too perfect to be coincidence, but that doesn't mean that people from the future did it all, which is what the authors state is their best theory. Theres just as much evidence to support that idea as there is to say the whole solar system is the poo of a giant space fish.
I recommend everyone reads this book before they come to any conclusion and once they've read it don't just settle with the authors ideas. there are more possibilities than just god, aliens or people from the future. Perhaps the solar system is a living organism or maybe theres a completely natural phenomenon where for some reason not yet known to physics, planets harmonize themselves with each other on many different levels ie size, rotation, who knows?
Once these facts become more well known, everyone from Jehovahs witnesses to star trek fans are going to jump on the band wagon and try to use this to support their views.
What I'm trying to say is, the implications of what this could mean are endless, so please don't dismiss these remarkable figures just because someone says it means we are all slaves of the reptilians, or that these facts prove the plot to the terminator films actually happened.
And no matter what anyones opinion is,
The Earth still rotates about 366 times per orbit of the sun, and has a polar diameter 366.0431 percent larger than the moons.
The moon has an orbital period of 27.32 days and has a diameter 27.32 percent that of the Earths polar diameter.
The suns diameter is 109.2 times the size of Earths diameter, and the distance from the earth to the sun when we are at our furthest from it is 109.2 sun diameters.
if you divide 109.2 by 4 you get 27.3
366 moon orbits equal 10000 days
I could go on and on but the fact is you keep on getting the same recurring numbers and multiples of them again and again:
4
27.32
100
109.2
366
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
fascinating in parts, fantasy in others, 1 Jun 2009
A mixture of fascinating facts, some fantasy when the authors stray from the facts, and lots of tedious ponderings that add little to the facts. Among the fantasies: alleging that humanity time traveled from the future to the Earth's beginnings to create the Moon; attempting to debunk the conspiracy theory that man has never been to the Moon (just how would THEY know?); claiming that Darwin's Natural Selection is correct (both this and Creationism are just theories and both have serious weaknesses).
Some experts now agree that higher life only developed on Earth because the Moon is exactly what it is and where it is! Yet, scientifically speaking, the Moon should not exist. It doesn't obey the rules of astrophysics and no theory of its origin explains the known facts. Those facts provide more than enough anomalies about the Moon to permit the conclusion that it is not a naturally occurring body and was quite possibly engineered to sustain life on Earth:
The presence of the Moon stabilises an otherwise very 'wobbly' Earth, keeping it upright and sitting at exactly the right angle to ensure an even warming of its surface as it glides around the Sun, without which life could not have developed. What is more, the Moon is now thought to maintain plate tectonics, a crucial factor in the development of the Earth and a phenomenon that has allowed nutrients to be constantly released to the planet's surface - another essential to life.
The authors discovered a series of mathematical ratios regarding the relationship of the Earth, Sun and Moon. The size of a planetary body such as the Moon has little or nothing to do with its orbital characteristics, which are specifically tied to its speed. Yet time and again Knight and Butler came across number parallels that simply defy logic. For example the Earth is 3.66 times larger than the Moon and takes nearly 366 days to go around the Sun. Another peculiarity emerged when it was realised that the Moon, which orbits the Earth in 27.322 days, takes a very neat 10,000 days to complete 366 orbits. The Moon is 27.31% of the Earth's size, and it takes 27.322 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth.
The authors found a consistent sequence of integer numbers when looking at every major aspect of the Moon. No such pattern emerges for any other known planet or moon in the solar system. The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun in diameter and the Moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than the Sun which is why, during a total solar eclipse, the Moon appears to cover the Sun perfectly. Also, the Moon is rotating at a rate of 400km per Earth day and the Earth rotates at a speed 400 times faster than that of the Moon.
What you are left with is so unlikely that it cannot be simple chance. In so large a universe as ours outrageous coincidences are certain to happen but this is far from being the end of the story. Such are the orbital characteristics of the Moon that its movements in the sky, when seen from Earth, exactly mirror those of the Sun. The Moon revolves at exactly one hundredth of the speed that the Earth turns on its axis. When the Sun sets north of west at midsummer, the full Moon sets south of west at the same time. Although not immediately obvious, this phenomenon might be even more remarkable than the possibility of total eclipse.
Although it is extremely large relative to the Earth, the Moon is very light in mass, in fact only 1/81st part the mass of the Earth, despite being just under 1/3rd the size (which is huge for a moon and in fact the size of some planets). This is all the more perplexing now that it is known for certain that the Moon is made from exactly the same sort of rock as the Earth - though with very few of the heavy metals that give our world its mass - and has no core: in fact, many specialists suspect that the Moon is hollow, which should not be possible. The Apollo lunar teams at NASA reported on several occasions that the Moon rings like a bell when struck.
While studying the ancient system of geometry and measurement they researched and wrote about in their also very interesting previous book, Civilization One, the authors recreated a way of measuring distance, mass, volume and time that flourished at least five thousand years ago. The basic unit of length, the Megalithic Yard (82.966cm), is incorporated into the vast majority of the Megalithic monuments in Britain and France. Their work in Civilization One proved to Knight and Butler that this very specific measurement of 82.966cm had been deliberately designed to fit neatly into the circumference of the Earth. The Megalithic Yard is also connected to the metre. A pendulum which swings at a rate of once a second on the Earth has a length of precisely 1 meter. The authors also discovered that this ancient system also works perfectly with Moon characteristics. The one second arc of the Moon's rotation is exactly 100 Megalithic Yards.
The authors argue persuasively that, if higher life only developed on Earth because the Moon is exactly what it is and where it is, it becomes unreasonable to insist that the Moon is a natural object - an idea with profound implications. When all their evidence was in place, Knight and Butler were faced with one massive but inevitable conclusion. The Moon is an artificially created object, deliberately placed into the Earth/Sun system to serve the very functions it has managed so well for more than 4 billion years.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Too Many Coincidences To Be Chance Alone., 30 Oct 2005
Coincidence that the moon's diameter is exactly 400 times smaller than that of the Sun? Coincidence that the one second arc of the Moon's rotation is exactly 100 Megalithic Yards? Coincidence that the Moon exactly blocks the Sun's disk during a solar eclipse so that the Sun's corona can be studied? Without which much of Einstein's work would not have been confirmed. By the way the Moon is also 1/400 of the distance from the Sun which Isaac Asimov described as being 'the most unlikey of coincidences'. That the Moon is almost exactly 1/4 the size in diameter of the earth (which makes it the largest moon for a planet this size) and without its precise position at present, life as we know it would not have happened? Too many coincidences to accept as pure chance for me. And the fact that so many of the relationships can be expressed in whole rounded integers (within 99 % accuracy)in the metric system which we have blindly accepted as of modern origin which it apparently is not. All in all, an exciting and easy read even for this non mathmatician. The authors conclude that the moon is not a coincidence of blind nature and offer several (3) answers, which they wisely do not force upon us. The most important thing is that they do force us to think a bit more about what we have accepted blindly for centuries just because it seemed to fit the science of the times. Just as the 'flat earth' did before it.
Two criticisms: 1. The book cover, and several areas in the book state that the Moon is 1/400 the size of the moon. This should have read as the 'diameter' of the moon's disk and the Sun's disk for clarity. 2. Page 41 last paragraph states that the Moon's circumference in Megalithic Yards was divided INTO the total of seconds of arc in the earths orbit. It should have read BY the total of seconds of arc as correctly reflected by the answer given. The math is correct and simple and hard to refute.
And by the way, none of these or similar coincidences are found with the rest of the planets or moons in our solar system. Another coincidence?
Perhaps our scientific community should be willing to look a little closer to home for some of their answers as to the origin of our planet and solar system and in particular to the source of our miraculous Moon.
Both thumbs way up on this one. Maybe more is coming?
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