Koen G > 21-11-2016, 09:07 AM
(21-11-2016, 06:35 AM)stellar Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't call it guess work! I call it intuition.One might object that those are the same thing
Quote:The paragraphs are highly speculative
-JKP- > 21-11-2016, 10:08 AM
(21-11-2016, 06:35 AM)stellar Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't call it guess work! I call it intuition.
Anton > 21-11-2016, 08:46 PM
ReneZ > 21-11-2016, 09:16 PM
davidjackson > 21-11-2016, 09:16 PM
Anton > 21-11-2016, 10:14 PM
-JKP- > 22-11-2016, 12:05 AM
(21-11-2016, 10:14 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thanks Rene and David.
So to continue the example, for the second step of the procedure, we add numbers as follows:
2a) 6 + 8 + 5 + 5 + 6 + 5 = 35
2b) 3 + 5 = 8.
So we get number 8 in the second step.
What is the third step, then? How does 8 expand into "ERFAGAF"? I understand that "ERFAGAF" can be "translated" into "8" using the numerology chart for the Latin alphabet. I also understand that "ERFAGAF" is a Welsh word, and that it is postulated (without any proof) that the plain text is Welsh.
But I have two questions:
1) How the word "ERFAGAF" is picked out of the multitude of Welsh words which count into 8?
2) Given that oteeol is six characters long, and ERFAGAF is seven characters long, it is apparent that the number of characters does not need to match between Voynichese and Welsh in the "numerology" method. This noted, why does the method constrain itself to picking only a single Welsh word for each Voynichese word? Why can't a phrase (consisting of two, three or more Welsh words) be picked? This, again, is postulated without any proof.
Anton > 22-11-2016, 01:46 AM
ThomasCoon > 22-11-2016, 03:17 AM
(22-11-2016, 01:46 AM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well that reminds me of an example in the Bennett's book: if you get a team of monkeys striking the typewriter keys in a random manner forever, then once upon a time they would be able to produce "Hamlet", "War And Peace" and any other past and future text ever created by humanity. That's simply because "forever's a very long time", as the song has it.
For another example (if I'm not mistaken it's Bertrand Russel's), each irrational number (such as pi) would contain encoded version of "Hamlet", "War And Peace" etc. somewhere along the way after its decimal point. For sure, decryption of the VMS is also to be found there. Just a bit of patience is needed.
stellar > 23-11-2016, 12:18 AM