The Secrets of The Mechanism
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That is an awesome story. Love it!!!!
(take the time to watch the 29 minute video on it in the article. Very cool!!)
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That is an awesome story. Love it!!!!
(take the time to watch the 29 minute video on it in the article. Very cool!!)
@taiwan_girl said in The Secrets of The Mechanism:
That is an awesome story. Love it!!!!
(take the time to watch the 29 minute video on it in the article. Very cool!!)
Thank you.
I post whatever I find interesting...
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It is beyond amazing. How in the world could they have come up with such a device. And, who was "they?" Opens up a whole range of questions.
We think we're so smart, comparatively.
And, who is "we?"Anyone that didn't click the link is missing something pretty spectacular, so I would certainly suggest it's worth a few minutes.
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It is beyond amazing. How in the world could they have come up with such a device. And, who was "they?" Opens up a whole range of questions.
We think we're so smart, comparatively.
And, who is "we?"Anyone that didn't click the link is missing something pretty spectacular, so I would certainly suggest it's worth a few minutes.
@rainman said in The Secrets of The Mechanism:
It is beyond amazing. How in the world could they have come up with such a device. And, who was "they?" Opens up a whole range of questions.
We think we're so smart, comparatively.
And, who is "we?"Anyone that didn't click the link is missing something pretty spectacular, so I would certainly suggest it's worth a few minutes.
It’s a bit unfathomable given the age.
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https://www.space.com/gravitational-waves-lunar-year-cosmic-clock-antikythera-mechanism
Fresh research about ripples in the fabric of spacetime suggests a nearly 2,000-year-old cosmic calculator followed the lunar calendar instead of the solar one.
The hand-powered "Antikythera mechanism" was retrieved in pieces from a sunken shipwreck in the Aegean sea in 1901, sparking more than a century of research into how this device was made — and why. The box-shaped mechanical computer used gears and dials to track ancient astronomical events such as solar eclipses and the movements of planets.
Now, researchers are using cutting-edge work surrounding gravitational waves, which are ripples in spacetime sparked by events like black hole mergers or collisions between stars, to help uncover the mechanics of Antikythera's Ancient Grecian gears. (The device is named after the Greek island near where it was found.)
