clue:  The Stevenson Requiem:  The word "now" does not appear in the actual quote here, either!

clue:  The round thing in the corner looks like either a circular slide rule (I think that's what it 
is, I have something similar in my junk drawer) or is a nautical slide rule.  I can't tell from my 
crummy monitor display.


clue:  2 things about the left edge paragraph...  
"...fresh Letter of Marque from Boston Common to Norbert's house...".  Norbert Weiner was a
mathemeticain/biologist at M.I.T. "From his early youth Wiener, the prodigy, acquired intensive 
experience in the manipulation of both mathematical and linguistic symbols; but his career choice 
seemed initially little related to these skills. "  More at 

     The formula "G=6.670X10 etc" is the gravitational constant.

clue:  This may not be relevant, but the graph near the bottom right-center that says 7000: "when to 
hold and when to fold" is symmetric across the y-axis.  I don't know if this is relative, but of 
course, if you were to "fold" it, across the y-axis, it would look the same.

clue:  The "7000" graph shows subatomic particles (mesons, I think), somewhat dated now.
Horizontal axis is charge (hence the already-mentioned symmetry) and vertical axis is probably spin.

clue:  i am studying cyptography at my univeristy. kipawa condor is 
correct. the messages are literally coded.  with each message is published 
a key.  the key lies in the leitmotiv statement.  use the leitmotiv 
statement to decode the actual text.  the rest of the page is filler junk 
to throw you off.

clue:  The phrase "Baba wa wana" is Swahili for "father of many sons."  
The more common contraction is "Bwana."

clue:  This is another one of my simpleminded inputs but look at the Luther quote which sets the tone for the whole page.  
That is about as clear a reference to the eternal present as anybody could make anytime or anywhere.

name:  Bob

clue:  Furstenburg, in the box just to the left of the circular instrument. Here^Òs how he's described in his bio at the 
National
Academy of Science:


"Furstenberg, Hillel H.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
                        
"Furstenberg has discovered entirely novel interrelations between number theory, ergodic
theory, and topological dynamics, leading to simplified proofs of old results and to new results not obtainable otherwise. He 
has
also gone deeply into Lie groups and their harmonic functions, influencing Margulis' work on geometrical rigidity.

Elected to NAS: 1989
Scientific Field: Mathematics
Membership Type: Member

"Research Interests: My field of interest overlaps the following areas of mathematics:
combinatorics, number theory, probability theory, ergodic theory, and group theory. I am
particularly interested in randomness phenomena occurring in number-theoretic concepts
and the application of ergodic theoretic ideas to number theory and combinatorics. I am
also interested in laws of large numbers for random variables in a non-commutative setup,
e.g., random products of matrices and random walks on groups. Of particular interest is the connection between these questions 
for
Lie groups and for their subgroups and the
connection with harmonic function theory."

I can^Òt believe I^Òve never heard of this guy, because if you start reading about him, you find the math that he developed,
specifically involving matrices and ergoditic theory, has had a profound impact on fields as diverse as materials science, 
high
energy physics and medical research. My guess would be that the equation above his name is from his work, but I^Òve been 
unable to
locate it.

Oh, and just to add to the weirdness, Furstenberg has been involved in a strange controversy the past few years. A group of
researchers did a mathematical analysis of the Torah (every 7th letter, every 50th letter, every 49th letter, etc.) and 
claimed to
find encoded in it information about the past 2,000+ years. Furstenberg at first issued a tepid endorsement of their research. 
He
later retracted it. Of course, all of this happened after this ad was published.

One of Furstenberg^Òs fields of interest is ergodic theory. The term ergodic attractor appears in the text to the right of the
circular instrument, as well as on a number of other pages. I haven^Òt seen a definition of it on any of the May Day pages, 
so,
even though it^Òs beyond me, here^Òs a try.

Ergodic systems seem to be apparently random, but tend toward a particular value, at least over the short term. The study of
ergodic systems is closely related to the study of fractals and chaos theory. Here^Òs a sort of lyrical way one web site 
defines
them:

"Attractors also form one of the most valuable concepts in complexity theory. These attract in a similiar way, they are the 
points
to which a system moves over time. They take three basic forms, firstly the fixed or point attractor, a single position that 
once
reached never changes, a dead end, which we can symbolise by a golf ball in a hole. Secondly the cyclic attractor, a system 
that
repeats a number of values endlessly, for example the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. Both of these can be studied using
deterministic science (e.g. Newtonian mechanics). The third type is very odd, and called a strange or ergodic attractor. This 
never
repeats any value exactly but always stays within the same area, it is chaos in a box, and usually studied using statistical
methods (e.g. the gas laws)."

So the study of ergodic systems could have implications for predicting the behavior of seemingly random systems, such as, oh, 
I
don^Òt know, financial markets. At this url:

http://www.aps.org/BAPSTSS98/abs/S200003.html

there^Òs an abstract of a paper in which the researchers claim to have been able to to make accurate short-term predictions of
market movements using ergodic theory. The summary of their research:

"Financial data (e.g., stock quotes) have long been considered stochastic in nature. We have shown that such data, while not
lending itself to traditional analysis, does allow short-term prediction. 
"First, any broad exponential trend (e.g., inflation) in the data set is removed. Then, an attractor is constructed from the 
data
set using the method of time delays, determined by the zeros of the autocorrelation function of the data set. This 
reconstructed
attractor is then used to determine the minimum number of degrees of freedom inherent in the underlying low-dimensional 
dynamical
system. The largest Lyapunov exponent then calculated shows that the system is indeed chaotic and predictable in the 
short-term by
providing a measure of the time rate of information loss. In addition, by following the evolution of nearby points on the
attractor, we are able to make simple short-term predictions. Finally, we compare the results to a purely stochastic model 
(i.e. brown noise)."

clue:  When I read the recent comment I didn't know what "Lie groups" are and so I looked them up in an encyclopedia.  Still 
don't really know but found something very interesting: Lie's father was a _Lutheran_ minister, just like Riemann's father.  I 
wonder how much you have to know to pick up all the textures and nuances in these  messages?

clue:  The quote in the box labelled 1600: This is from 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell's "The Definition of Love,"  about 
a hopeless romance that is "Begotten by Despair/ Upon Impossibility." In the poem 'jealous fate' prevents the two lovers 
from coming together (at least from the perspective of the author). It's interesting that Marvell uses a geometric metaphor 
for the lives of the two would-be lovers:

'As lines, so loves oblique may well 
Themselves in every angle greet; 
But ours so truly parallel, 
Though infinite, can never meet.'

Marvell, was, by the way, a friend of Milton.

Box labelled 7000: Seemingly minor misquote from an incredibly banal song, 'The Gambler,' by Kenny Rodgers. The actual lyric
is: 'know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.'

More on the box marked  '120: Furstenberg' The formula does not appear to be originally derived by Furstenberg. I now 
believe it is what is called the Regularity Lemma, first proved by Szemeredi in 1974. Sorry I can't explain it myself, but 
the math's way beyond me. Here's a brief summary from a web page:

'The Regularity Lemma, proved by Endre Szemeredi in the mid-seventies, is commonly acknowledged by now to be one of the most
powerful tools of Modern Combinatorics. (A) great many beautiful theorems have been proven by applying this result. Roughly
speaking, the Regularity Lemma guarantees that any graph can be partitioned into a bounded number of equal parts so that 
most of the bipartite graphs between the partition pieces behave essentially like random graphs of a corresponding density.'

OK, so now that we all understand that, the Regularity Lemma also had to do with arithmetic progressions. Furstenberg found 
a more elegant proof of Szemeredi's result: 

'In the late 1970's, Furstenberg ignited ergodic theory with a remarkable new proof of Szemeredi's theorem.  Szemeredi's
theorem is a huge generalisation of van der Waerden's theorem: it states that any subset of the natural numbers of positive
density contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.  The original proof was very long and complicated, but 
Furstenberg discovered a beautiful approach based on ergodic theory.'

OK, so I'm going on too long about stuff about which I know too little, but in reading about all this, I came across math
developed by the Russian Markov. Markov's math, like ergodic theory, is useful in predicting the likelihood of future 
conditions occurring given a current set of conditions. In other words, it's closely related to the ergodic theory, chaos 
theory, etc., although I'm unsure if Markov appears in any of the Mayday pages.

It's late. I'm tired. So just one more brief note. In the rotated text on the right, line 2, item 12, 'Sir Godfrey, etc.'
There are any number of Sir Godfreys. and if you do a search on 'Sir Godfrey progenitor' you'll get info about a lot of
Scottish folks.

But if you do a search on the words 'Sir Godfrey freaks,' you'll get entirely different results, namely hits on the 007 
movie 'A View to a Kill,' which came out in 1985. Normally, we would immediately dismiss this, except for this curious fact. 
Bond's antagonist in the film is a man named Zorin, a KGB operative who's ready to go out on his own. Zorin's 'enforcer,' is 
a woman, played by the singer/model Grace Jones.

Again, we'd dismiss this. Except for her name in the movie. 

It's: 'May Day.'

clue:  The formula in the six-sided box at the right center of the page, just above the Weavers Neeedle map, defines what is
called the Schwarzchild radius. It has two applications involving gravitational collapse and black holes. From a web page:

"The Schwarzschild radius is the radius below which the gravitational attraction between the particles of a body must cause 
it to undergo irreversible gravitational collapse. This phenomenon is thought to be the final fate of the more massive 
stars.

"The gravitational radius (R) of an object of mass M is given by the following formula, in which G is the universal 
gravitational constant and c is the speed of light: R = 2GM/c2 . For a mass as small as a human being, the gravitational 
radius is of the order of 10-23 cm, much smaller than the nucleus of an atom; for a typical star such as the Sun, it is 
about 3 km (2 miles)."

So the Schwarzchild radius can be used to determine the conditions under which matter will collapse into a black hole. Once 
the black hole has formed, it defines the "event horizon," the boundary beyond which nothing can escape the gravitational 
attraction of black hole. 

The formula was developed by the German astronomer and physicist Kurt Schwarzchild, and is a result of Einstein's General 
Theory of Relativity. In fact, Schwarzchild was serving in the German armed forces during WWI at the time, and Einstein 
presented Schwarzchild's paper to the Prussian Academy on Schwarzchild's behalf. To say that Einstein was troubled by this 
result is an understatement. There's an interesting discussion of the events at this url:

clue:  In a previous clue, I failed to note the Schwarzchild radius reference in item 4 in the rotated text at left.

No. 5, at left, 'John saw the number ...' The phraseology used on this page is reminiscent of a traditional spiritual, 'John
Saw the Number.' The reference is, once again, to the Book of Revelation: 

Rev 7:9  After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and 
people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

It's worth reading Rev. 7 to get the context; this is the seven seals passage.

No. 5, Part 2, at left, the Chandrasekhar reference. In 1983, Prof. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar published 'The mathematical
theory of black holes and of colliding plane waves.' It is described thusly on a relativity theory page:

'By common consent, one of the great scientific books of our time. This is THE book on black hole physics. Not for the faint 
of heart.'

The Chandra space telescope was named for Prof. Chandrasekhar.

No. 6, at left, Part 2. The number 1.4x10^{53} ergs occurs in only a few Google-linked pages, all associated with 
high-energy Gamma ray bursts. A quick introduction to this phenomena is available here:

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/bursts.html

A real-time update on the observed phenomena is available here:

http://space.mit.edu/HETE/

For those of you who, like me, don't have a clear idea about what Gamma rays are, a layman's definition: 'Gamma rays are
highly energetic photons, and very high-energy gamma rays carry with them energies of trillions of electron volts, a level 
that is hundreds of billions of times greater than visible light.'

For anyone who still believes that these pages are being put together as some sort of joke, it's interesting to note that 
the Chandra space telescope is being used to investigate the still-mysterious phenomenon of Gamma ray bursts. And that this 
page was published in 1990. This is from a summation of a paper published last year:

'Astronomers have long debated how gamma-ray bursts (or "GRBs") originate. One theory contends that GRBs result when 
"compact objects," that is, neutron stars or black holes, collide and coalesce. Another theory speculates that a 
"hypernova," a gigantic star collapsing on itself under its own weight, could cause these extremely energetic outbursts. 

'An international team of scientists used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to observe iron emission lines from ejected 
material surrounding the gamma-ray burst (GRB) known as GRB991216. This is the first time emission lines associated with 
GRBs have been unambiguously detected and their properties precisely measured at X-ray wavelengths. 

 'This discovery strengthens the case for a "hypernova" model.'

A wonderful page with a link to the quote above and many articles on all these issues is located at this Harvard site:

http://www.researchmatters.harvard.edu/section_list.php?section=space

No. 7, at left, 'The end always comes too fast ...' is from the Jimmy Webb song, 'All I Know.' The best-known version of the
song was recorded by Art Garfunkel. The relevant verses:

But the ending always comes at last
Endings always come too fast
They come too fast
But they pass too slow
I love you and that's all I know.

Again, there are minor variations  in their quote from the original.

No. 9, Part 2, in rotated text at left. From a Joan Baez song called 'BLESSED ARE...,' about dealing with the loss of a 
beloved young person. The relevant lines:

Blessed are the blood relations 
of the young ones who have died, 
who had not the time or patience 
to carry on this earthly ride.

Note that the words 'carry on' are omitted in the quote on this page.

The 2500 diagram  illustrates  the principles behind sextants. It is  reproduced exactly with an explation of the geometry
here:

clue:  It does not matter if the Gold has already been removed.

And I'll bet you $5 their meeting is on the 25th of June

In
http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/texts/89-may1.html
they specified midnight between 25 and 26 (Julian Date  2447703.5)

The encryption or steganography theory sounds promising

clue:  Julian date 2448066.5 corresponds to UT date/time June 24, 1990 at 00:00 (which would be 7 hours behind for
Arizona, making it 5:00 PM on June 23, 1990)

clue:  So recently, on our way home to Sweden from Prague, we stayed in a little town south of Leipzig called Lützen.  It was
near here that Gustav II Adolf was killed in battle.  It's unclear however, whether he was shot by enemy fire or (possibly
intentional) friendly fire.  

Now if there's one date-king-location that Swedes remember from school, it's that Gustav II Adolf was killed in Lützen on the
6th of November (on a foggy day :), but it would appear, according to the monument in Lützen that it is not actually known
whether he was killed on the 6th or the 16th.  

Also, the reason he may have been killed by friendly fire would appear to be attributed to something along the lines of the fact
that Gustav II Adolf wasn't so much defending protestantism as he was fighting on the side that he thought was going to win so
that he would be able to get more land for Sweden and for himself.  Rumour is, he wasn't really such a nice guy.

Just some interesting tidbits.  =)

clue:  5/1/90 ADW


Brian,

You've probably guessed from your inbox, I'm reviewing all the ads. I'm working on cross-referencing all references to other ads
that appear.


In the 5/1/90 ad, there is a reference to ADW, 4/27/88, which doesn't appear to be in the online texts. Are you aware of this ad?
Note that 1988 was a busy year, with SIX known ads.


Eri: 10.09.2003


RE: 4)"In and out of lifetimes unmentionable by name" 
Mentioned here too: http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/texts/87-may1.html
It's the Bob Dylan song Love is Just a Four Letter Word
Here's part of the song:
I said goodbye unnoticed
Pushed towards things in my own games
Drifting in and out of lifetimes
Unmentionable by name
Searching for my double, looking for
Complete evaporation to the core
Though I tried and failed at finding any door
I must have thought that there was nothing more
Absurd than that love is just a four-letter word
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/fourletter.html

5) "John saw the number that no man could number"
This is a longshot, but it might be a reference to Revelations 17:15:
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples,
and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 



sjwk 11.24.2003

clue:  the '1600' box looks a bit like a state transition diagram for a Turing machine.
Can't really see what's in the circles though. In fact, could do with enlargements of lots of this
one..  Is the faint annotation yours or has someone else been doodling in the archives?

hance - the notations are mine. This scan is horrible, and I need to redo it. 


Will: 05.25.2004
Box 7000: The plot in this box has been mentioned before, but incorrectly.  The axes of the plot are strangeness (y-axis) and
3-component of isospin (x-axis).  This is a way (called the Eightfold Way, developed by Murray Gell-Mann) to organize
hadrons (particles that undergo strong interactions) in a way that shows their group structure (namely the group SU(3)). 
The particles in this picture are spin-3/2 baryons (not mesons).  Presumably, the quote underneath is in reference to the
eightfold way (similar plots to the one above can be made for spin-0 and spin-1 mesons and spin-1/2 baryons, where each
plot includes eight particles known at the time the plots were first formulated, this is where the 'eight' in eightfold
comes from in a nutshell) 




Doug: 06.24.2004

The melody is "can't always get what you want" by the Rolling Stones.



Howard 06.24.2004

Just passin' through here...

The music excerpt is from "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones. 

The lyrics under the quoted portion start at the third line of the verse, roughly:

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you can get what you need."

The last note in the phrase is clipped at the bar line, so that me better transcribed as "You can get what you ne---".

Based on the crappy notation and bad chords, I'd say it comes from a cheap, "beginner" PVG (piano-vocal-guitar) book. The slight
extension of the bar line at the beginning indicates a PVG book rather than a lead sheet, and chords symbols also point to a PVG
setting rather than a choral or band arrangement. The font for the chord symbols is consistent with books put out by Hal Leonard.




Rich: 07.12.2004

Note that the digrams labelled 7000 (Baryon spin vs strangeness) and 5000 (floorplan of the Jewish temple) exhibit similar
symmetry. Heck, you could even say that one represents a subset of the other. (What if someone looked at the corresponding
locations around the temple mt?)

I'm just sayin'... 



Charlotte 05.01.2005

I looked up the latitude/longitude where the virginia street "practice sessions" were going to happen and it seems to be in
the middle of the SF bay...which isn't quite logical, but it is near SF, just like the 94102 zipcode. 
(http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&formtype=latlong&latlongtype=decimal&latitude=37.52&longitude=-122.18)
this whole thing is very perculiar...




Marcel B 09.05.2005

	If the Hebrew text is alef chet resh, it could also mean "another".
However, our friend has a habit of mistaking resh and daled. If that's a daled, it would be "echad", meaning "one" - an important
word in Biblical Hebrew, as it strongly correlates with the unity of G-d.





D. Tomasson 06.03.2007

Comments: 
"The Asylum Choir" that is mentioned down the right side of the announcement can be anagrammed to "Holy
Heart Music."

Check out the lyrics to Charlie Hall's song: "Holy Heart" -


Oh my heart longs to be purified; oh my heart longs to be refined



Chorus:


A holy heart is what I long for, what I cry for, what I need

A heart that loves You, a heart that hears You, fears You

And sees You as You are



Search my heart, O God and see in me

All offenses, God, that there may be

(Cry it out now)



Refined in Your love, refined by Your blood

And the pure in heart will see You, will see You

(We're cryin' out now)



To gaze (look) upon You

Purifies me

So purify me, purify me...




Listen to the music at:

 

http://www.rhapsody.com/-search?query=Holy+Heart&searchtype=RhapTrack




Guitar Chords:


http://www.pwarchive.com/song.aspx?SongID=1159&v=1

http://www.charliehall.com/multimedia/chordCharts/o
ldCharts/HolyHeart.pdf




See Holy Heart Basilica, Brussels:

http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/43.htm




See the University of Brussels - Originated by Freemasons (Theodore Verhaegen, founder) built on Franklin Roosevelt Ave:

http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/45.htm




The word "Holy" can also be translated as "Sacred."  See the Church of Sacro Cuore (Holy Heart), Santa Venerina:

http://sicilia.indettaglio.it/eng/comuni/ct/sa
ntavenerina/turismo/turismo.html




Also, see Sacred Heart Church, Nebraska:

http://www.archomaha.com/parishes/nebraska/wynot.html



Look up "The Chuch of Sacro Cuore," Santa Venerina and "The Sacre-Coeur Basilica" in Montmartre, Paris.


"Cor unum inter nos" means "One heart among us."  That heart would be "Sancratissimum Cor lesu" or "The
Sacred Heart."




Tidbit
Comments: A recent GQ article on the Catholic utopia Tom Monaghan is building in Florida reveals that he, 
in a moment of piety, sold his Bugatti.

I can't help but think that Monaghan would be on the conspiratorial radar of whoever's behind all this.	




3.141 10/18/2017

Three notable questions:

What is the relationship between 'cadence' and 'resonance', functionally?

What assets have demonstrated repeatedly the propensity for holding value over extended periods of time?*

How are the above two points related?

If history was rhythmic in nature, one would infer periods of significant deviation from natural tendencies, as a norm. It should be noted that iterations of this process would thus exist (Mandelbrot). How would one go about inferring proper placement of these coordinates on a 'grid'?

The second question is the most important: practically speaking, for the sake of our 'secular security'.
	




Nicole 10/16/2020

In regards to the Greek “ina pan stoma phage“, I saw a clue by Chris saying that “phrage” is a misspelling of “phage”, 
which could be, BUT working on the assumption that the person choosing the greek text here, ACTUALLY knows greek and 
is not just spewing bible verses, “phrage” (φραγή) is a word of its own, and while “ina pan stoma phage” means “so 
that every mouth can eat, replacing the “phage” with “phrage”, the translation changes to “so that every mouth can 
be shut”.