British Crop Circles illustrate complex theorems?
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There's an interesting article in the Feb. 1, '92 issue of
Science News (vol. 141) on crop circles. In fact they chose
to grace the cover of the issue with a picture of a big, complicated
crop circle.
A retired astronomer, named Gerald S. Hawkins, claims that the
crop designs imply important mathematical theorems. As I've indicated
earlier, this is not the first time somebody noticed this.
The thing that makes this interesting is that these are (according to him)
previously unknown theorems which he discovered by looking at pictures of
the designs and later proved. He searched both ancient and modern mathematics
textbooks but couldn't find anything even resembling these theorems.
Further, the four theorems discovered through investigation of separate
crop designs are related by a fifth (and as yet undisclosed) theorem which
encompasses the others.
According to the article, Hawkins gained some notoriety for his
investigations
of Stonehenge.
P.S. He wrote a letter to "Doug and Dave" asking them how they did it and
remarking that the media didn't give them enough credit for their
cleverness.
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On the subject of crop circles.....
The southern hemisphere should be well into summer by now.
Has anyone heard any reports of more designs?
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