II OtnemeM II wrote:
ksart wrote:...
The theory of the glyphs being some form of lunar calendar is a great idea. Although nothing seems to match up too well. I believe i may have stumbled across a solution if it has not already been thought of.
I call theis the Angle Theory.
After seeing D34th 4ngle 108, i thought there may be a connection to the angles on the glyphs.
#1 i measure the angle between the open circled armature in starchart1 and the opencircled armature in starchart2, this gave me 72°, the complimentary angle of which is 108°.. Bit of an abstract connection. Except that the angles within a pentagon are all 108°, five points, and there is our glyph connection.
The Perfection Angle Theory:
#2 (Assumes the glyphs are almost perfectly how they were meant to be)
#3 Measuring the rest of the angles, we come up with roughly (from top armature clockwise) 63°, 72°, 90°, 72°, 63°.
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Incase no one has noticed
#4 server01 opened on the 20th of June, at 10:58 in Mombasa (11:24 in Washington) it became the 7th lunar day.
server02 opened on the 10th of July, the 21st day after the opening of sever01 (including the end dates).
relating to th glyphs,
moving CW:
288° = 21days
1° = 0.0729166666.... = 7/96 days = 1.75 hours
and hence the next server will open roughly 14.4375 days later so roughly July 24th
moving CCW:
72° = 21days
1° = 0.2916666.... = 7/24 days = 7 hours!
and hence the next server will open roughly 26.65 days later, so August 5th
Supposed Perfection Angle Theory: (Assuming the glyph was meant to be roughly equally divided)
Based on the 108° pentagon. this means;
moving CW:
288° = 21days
1° = 0.0729166666.... = 7/96 days = 1.75 hours
and hence the next server will open roughly 14.4375 days later so roughly July 24th
moving CCW:
72° = 21days
1° = 0.2916666.... = 7/24 days = 7 hours!
and hence the next server will open roughly 21 days later on, the 31st of July.
This is all rough, i realise that the first open ended circle armature from starchart01 does not line up exactly with the measured angles, except this is only about 1 degree off and only changes the result by 7 hours days. if this is correct tho... i wish i hadnt just told over 3000 people i now have to compete with
I really like your
flow of thinking, because it is basically the mathematical version of mine, the Lunar Phase theory. But, there are a few corrections to your math and logic, that, if made, would make your theory work... and it would just so happen to be exactly the same as mine. I've bolded and numbered the points that need to be addressed:
1) This is pretty much the beginning of where your theory goes slightly astray in the numbers. 72 degrees is correct, and so is 108. The fact that you
hand measured them, though, is where it is a problem. See further.
2) You say here that you are assuming that the glyphs are "almost perfectly as they are meant to be". This could be understood two ways: a) that you assume there is imperfection and that the imperfection is intentional, or b) that they are perfect, and any imperfection was unintended... due to the way you proceeded with the rest of your calculations, I have to assume that you meant the first interpretation, because you didn't use perfection in your angles, see next point.
3) In my counter-point 1, I point out that you used the 108 degree pentagon as your tie-in to the 72 degrees. If this is true, then your angles are off in part 3... your angles would draw an imperfect pentagon, and have no 108 degree angles in it. For you to have a perfect pentagon, all 5 interior angles have to be 72 degrees. The angles you use, by hand measuring, are throwing off the calculations just slightly. Let's clean those angles up to a perfect 72 degrees.
4) You are right that the first server opened on June 20th, but this is not the 7th lunar day, it was the 6th (the Moon was ~5.1 Lunar days old, making it the 6th day) Here are my sources:
http://home.att.net/~srschmitt/script_moon_phase.html
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The 21st was the 7th Lunar day, but since the Server was opening at night (at least for me, in Portland, Oregon) it is up for debate as to which day it was when it opened, because we don't know the relative location (assuming there is one). For me, the first server was opened on June 20th, the 6th lunar day, but for N'Chala in Africa it was the 21st, the 7th Lunar day.
Then you cross your numbers by saying that the second server opened 21 days later -- you need to keep all your numbers in the same kind; you can't mix Earth days with Lunar days. The Moon was in fact in its 26th day, being ~25.1 Lunar days old on July 10th. So instead of 288 degrees being = 21 Earth days, you need to say that 288 degrees = ~20 Lunar days. But, this also is not correct, because the numbers don't jive as a whole. The average Lunar month is 29.53 days, divided by 5 spokes = 5.906, multiply by 4 (which is 288 degrees) = 23.624 Lunar days.
And hence the reason that
I adjusted my theory from "When the Servers will unlock" to "When the Episodes will begin", syncing with Halo3.com's update. Making this adjustment, the numbers sync better with the glyphs, the Moon, and the rate of the game in the future. The beginning of Episode 1 was the "First seeds are scattered" email that went out (June 14th). That is when players actually had their lives entered by AR. His initial posts in forums were like the "Get ready, get set..." and the email was the "Go!" On this date, the Moon was at the 12 o'clock position, which is a logical starting point, it being a New Moon. 288 degrees later CCW, the Moon is 23.6 Lunar days older, and ~26 Earth days have passed, which is July 10th, the beginning of Episode 2, Server 2's unlocking. Now the numbers jive.
So, in keeping with said calculations, 288 degrees (23.6 Lunar days) from July 10th is August 2nd. From there, 23.6 Lunar days later is August 25, and from there follows Sept. 17th. We have to also allow for the TZ/Dateline difference, so these are all +/- 1 day.
With making these small changes to your calculations, swapping the "Server" for "Episode" and not mixing the data types, yours syncs with the events and my visualization of it. Thanks for starting the mathematical work on this! It is exactly what I needed as an impetus to do my own. Good work!!!!