I Ching Mystery:
- The most ancient book ? led to our most modern machine - The Computer.

In the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary in China, Father Bouvet, wrote about the I Ching to his friend Gottfried von Leibniz, the philosopher and mathematician. Leibniz discovered in the pattern of the I Ching the principles of binary arithmetic and calculus, the foundation of every computer calculation performed today.
The most ancient book ? led to our most modern machine - The Computer.

In the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary in China, Father Bouvet, wrote about the I Ching to his friend Gottfried von Leibniz, the philosopher and mathematician. Leibniz discovered in the pattern of the I Ching the principles of binary arithmetic and calculus, the foundation of every computer calculation performed today.

The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is the most widely read of the five Chinese Classics. The book was traditionally written by the legendary Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi (2953-2838 B.C.). It is possible that the the I Ching originated from a prehistoric divination technique which dates back as far as 5000 B.C

This ancient divination system is the most intricate numerically-based oracle ever devised.

An I Ching interpretation is performed by making six binary decisions (a hexagram). This is called 'casting the I Ching'. These are written down as a stack of six solid or broken lines. This was traditionally done either by tossing yarrow stalks or coins, although there is no reason why the hexagrams can't be generated by some other means (such as a computer program).

The basic component of the I Ching is a three lined symbol called the Trigram. Each of the three lines in a trigram can either be straight or broken. A straight line symbolizes Yang:

*Yang ______________

A broken line stands for Yin:

*Yin _____ _____

There are actually four possible values for each of the lines; the two on/off values, and a line which changes from on to off or vice versa. Thus one cast of the I Ching can generate several different hexagrams, which adds depth to the interpretation. The sophistication of this method has not escaped modern interpretation, and the four-valued logic has been compared to the biochemistry of DNA amino acids. How a Neolithic shamans' divination technique presaged the basic logic of the human genome is one of the ageless mysteries.
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..this led to the computer eh? At those times Yeah lets yet to explain..and me a Historian aware of so many misteries better pop-out and walk around and solve out these misteries that i enjoy so much Ah, Well, here in Portugal we have lots..that's why sometimes i'm so busy...soon i'l tell you what i and few others found in an old church, a chapel where everyday Lisnonners go there! Crepy but for us interesting
Of course these discoveries remained between us and the ones involved!
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KK

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AH!,BTW, i've been a bit ill, a kind of breakdown as i've been so busy that's why i didn't manage blog at all, this bcz i told on a recent post i would blog more now i've my laptop back to myself, and i didn't bcz i was down and even fever i got, now is gone and i'm OK i'm feelling better and will be home today, doc.orders, so yes, today and during the weekend, i'l have fun out and indoors too with you all
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" Jelly turned to rock :
An extraordinary group of jellyfish fossils has been uncovered by researchers in a quarry in Wisconsin, US. The circular impressions left in 500-million-year-old sandstone - several measure up to a metre across - represent some of the largest finds of their kind anywhere in the world. It is very unusual for jellyfish to be preserved in the fossil record; they have no bony parts and when they are stranded on a beach, they are usually eaten by predators. These jellyfish must have been covered by sand soon after they came ashore.
- "It is very rare to discover a deposit which contains an entire stranding event of jellyfish," said Dr James Hagadorn, a scientist at the California Institute of Technology and co-author of an article reporting the find in February's issue of the journal Geology.
- "These jellyfish are not just large for the Cambrian, but are the largest jellyfish in the entire fossil record. What is also of interest is that they were among the largest two types of predators in the Cambrian.
- " During the Cambrian, Wisconsin is thought to have enjoyed a tropical environment, and was most likely covered by a shallow inland sea. Skewed view Dr Hagadorn and colleagues believe that the jellyfish were preserved because of a lack of erosion from seawater and wind, the lack of scavengers, and the lack of any significant sediment disturbance by other organisms burrowing into the sand after it had covered the jellyfish. Hagadorn believes jellyfish may have been under-appreciated in previous studies of Cambrian ecosystems and that they were probably important predators in Cambrian food chains.
- "We use fossils to assess the diversity and ecology of ancient communities," the geologist said.
- "To date, most of our information about the trophic (food chain) structure of the Cambrian - when multicellular animals burst onto the scene - is based on animals with hard parts or on exceptional deposits which contain soft-bodied organisms." He added:
- "When we analyse the trophic structure of the Cambrian - who ate whom, who ate them, and so forth, or when we analyse how abundant each type of organism was in each part of the food chain - we may have been inadvertently omitting a huge amount of information about all of the soft-bodied animals that were swimming around in the water column, munching on other organisms, but which were rarely fossilized. "This deposit provides us a rare opportunity to study such animals."
Amazing
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KK