30-01-2018, 06:13 AM
(30-01-2018, 02:10 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:Speculations. The VMS glyphs might represent numbers similar to how the Hebrew glyphs do, and perhaps even the same numbers. Thus, each glyph would correspond to a number. Imagine a sequence of glyphs (numbers) as follows: 2 + 60 + 5 + 20 + 10 + 3. These numbers add up to 100, and 1 + 0 + 0 add up to 1, Aleph, or be it, the Latin letter "a". And that's how a large number of VMS glyphs can reduce into a smaller number of Latin letters. I'm not making this up. It was standard cabala procedure incorporated into their Gematria.
The gematria angle has been explored countless of times by many different researchers (including me).
I was aware of kabbalah before I knew about the VMS so, of course, it was one of the first things I tried.
Reducing "a large number of VMS glyphs... into a smaller number of Latin letters" is not going to result in anything very intelligible because the VMS glyph-count is already somewhat restrained. Read some of the threads on entropy.
I haven't excluded the possibility of some kind of numeric system, I think it's possible, but I don't think it's based on gematria specifically. Not only is gematria not an "encryption" system (it's intended to find correspondences between "special" words, not for enciphering blocks of text), but it's impractical to read back if it is applied to every word (it leans dangerously toward one-way cipher territory).
I posted a Rosetta Stone of sorts earlier on in this thread. It is based on the assumption that a mini red star on top of a red star indicates the title of a poem that precedes four subsequent verses marked by a red star.
There are reasons to be optimistic:
1) the title is shorter than the other lines in both Voynichese and Latin.
2) the average length of Voynichese words per verse increase or decrease as the average length of the corresponding Latin words increase or decrease.
One way, and possibly the only way without external reference, that the Voynich script can reduce in size is if each glyph represented a number. Add up a large sequence of numbers, then add the resulting sum of that, and so on, until the result is a low number matching the number of the Latin letter.
Although the number of numeric possibilities are enormous, they are not infinite. In other words, a very good computer programmer should be able to break the code with the Rosetta Stone at hand as this gives him the target result. It could be only a matter of finding patterns, where, for example, the same group of glyphs (numbers) in any order produce a certain letter or punctuation mark in different places of the Latin text.
I’m confident there is someone out there willing to give it a try. For sure, people have already wasted lots of time on efforts a lot less promising than this.