Decoding the Voynich Symbols

[Mark Knowles]

 You feel like the solution was there in plain sight, and that somebody else might also stumble upon it tomorrow.

Yet despite it being in plain sight, at no point does anyone seem to ask the question "If I've made the breakthrough in a matter of minutes/hours/days, how come all these people - including expert codebreakers and linguists - labouring over it for decades didn't find it?  Wait a minute, could I have fallen into the same trap as all those wrong solvers before me?"

Except that historically with problems it is not unusual for people to make breakthroughs that others have not spotted.

At the moment as far as is known for certain no breakthroughs in Voynich research have been achieved except for the carbon dating. Why is this? How will this change? In my own case, I have my own theory, although it is not a decipherment, which I have been pursuing, but until it is proven or disproven then it is just a theory.

I think there are different ideas about how progress is made and it is not always how people might have anticipated in advance.