Reply With Quote*Sniggers*Originally Posted by Jumile
They're great works of art. I wonder how many tourists they bring to the area?
I'd really like to meet one of the people who plan these circles. They're lovely to look at, and the public's reaction to them is always amusing, but I'm interested in what kind of people they are - people who see beauty in symmetry, hardcore maths geeks, or hoaxers out for their 15 minutes of fame...
Wiltshire crop circle identified as symbolic code for first ten places of pi
Wroughton Mathematicians are perplexed after a highly complex crop circle appeared in a Wiltshire field - depicting a fundamental mathematical symbol.
The circle is, apparently, a coded image representing a complex mathematical number — the first ten digits of pi — and even astrophysicists admit they find it “mind-boggling”.
The circular pattern was created in a barley field near Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort, earlier this month.
Measuring around 46m (150ft) in diameter, it has had crop circle enthusiasts and experts stumped.
The symbol was identified eventually by Mike Reed, a retired astrophysicist who contacted Lucy Pringle, a crop circle photographer and expert, with an explanation.
Maths codes and geometric patterns have long been an important factor in crop circle formations — one of the most famous formations ever created showed the image of a complex set of fractals known as The Julia Set, in a field near Stonehenge, 12 years ago.
Lucy Pringle, who researches the effects of electromagnetic fields on living systems and crop formations and has the largest database of crop circles in the world said of the phenomenon: “This is an astounding development — it is a seminal event.”
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They're great works of art. I wonder how many tourists they bring to the area?
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Them thar Astrophysicists dont get out much do they?
De omnibus dubitandum
I think a 'mind' may have been 'boggled' by two things: (a) that anyone would go to such trouble to encode pi into a crop circle and (ii) by why people are still making such things after all these years.
Regarding the latter point, I suppose as long as there are people who are impressed by such 'art' then there will always people ready to make it. I remember visiting some of the early 'classic' crop circles, when there was at least some mystery about them (anyone remember Meaden's vortex theory?). But we all have to move on ...
Last edited by Mulder; 18th June 2008 at 03:15 PM.
I don't think there is anything wrong with being impressed, I mean I'm pretty impressed. It can't be simple producing such a design.
But 'perplexed', or 'mind-boggling', emm, not really.
Mousse from a bowl is very nice, but to put it on a person is demented!
Its mating hedgehogs I tells ya
De omnibus dubitandum
I can imagine Bill Oddie and Kate Humble out there at night with cameras waxing lyrical about it now...Its mating hedgehogs I tells ya
That particular circle matches the work of "the Circlemakers" for style, complexity and location: http://www.circlemakers.org/
Lucy Pringle is a raving loony: http://www.lucypringle.co.uk/
Sorry, don't understand. People don't make crop circles aliens do - everyone knows that.
mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so
Louis Pasteur
...but can you imagine Bill Oddie waxing Kate Humble
mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so
Louis Pasteur
Silly me... I missed the obvious!
Never mind Bill. I'd like to wax Kate Humble......but can you imagine Bill Oddie waxing Kate Humble
This thread is unravelling fast ...
Please excuse my flippant remarks and get this thread back on track.
Although very clever, it does seem to me that they must have had a lot of free time on their hands. Innovation out of boredom perhaps.
Last edited by Graham Lappin; 20th June 2008 at 03:19 PM. Reason: Korrected spiling mistike
mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so
Louis Pasteur
Oh, you mean Mech Eng students?
Richard Ingrams being silly in the Independent today:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...en-851639.html
Right, Richard!It is altogether easier to believe that they are the work of little green men in flying saucers.
The style as we like is the humdrum.
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