----- Original Message ----- From: Harry Adinegara
Diseluruh dunia buku The Da vinci Code,karangan Dan Brown ngetop, best seller dengan oplag paling gede dan paling lama di best seller list di US dan Italia. Buku yang mengundang banyak kontroversi albeit suatu cerita fiktip. Sampai2 di kota Vatican buku ini kena "fatwa"nya catholic church, di ban untuk diedarkan di kota Vatican. Dianggap sebagai blaspheme. Ada baiknya untuk mengambil sejenak pause dari perkara2 aktuil yang terjadi dilapangan, kita tengok buku The Davinci Code yang mengundang tidak saja polemik antar gereja dan begundalnya vs orang2 liberal, bahkan tourist dari manca negara flocking ke tempat2 misalnya Louvre Museum Paris..ke Church of Saint-Sulpice dan tempat2 kejadian yang diangkat dalam cerita ini, untuk bisa turut me-"rasakan" akan adanya kejadian2 penting yang menimpa orang2 yang disadur dalam cerita ini. Belum lagi intrique2, bahkan code2 rahasia perlu di cerna oleh para cryptologist,symbolism yang jadi teka-teki yang mengangkat para pembaca ke niveu yang tidak saja mendebarkan hati ,tapi juga selalu akan kepingin tahu klimaks dari cerita ini. Tokoh2 dalam cerita ini seperti Jacques Sauniere,yang mati duluan dalam bab pertama, Sophie Neveu(grand daughternya )Bishop Aringarosa dan Silas si begundalnya dari komplotan Opus Dei dan tokoh dalam buku ini Robert Langdon, to name a few. Apakah ada tokoh2 atau "bebek2" dari Apakabar dan milis2 lain punya intepretasi lebih jauh tentang buku ini? Undangan bagi jago2 boso Inggris semisal Bung Elceem,Bung Filsuf,Dr Irawan(Cari&T-Net)I.Purwono,PB,Yap Hong Gie,Dr.BHJo,Holy-Uncle, Becky(T-Net)Paulrantau,Johny-Indon,GodamLima ,David Kuntadi, Jusfic Hadjar,Martha Muskitawati dll, maaf kalau ada yang lupa nyebut, kita ramai2 bikin "gaduh"dikit ruangan ini. Kembali ke topik diatas yakni angka 1.618 yang memicu keheranan yang tidak pernah kita pikirkan semula. Apakah ini suatu keajaiban yang disuguhkan oleh Sang Pencipta? Angka 1.618 kayaknya berlaku universil sepanjang masa, sepertinya kejadian yang dinamakan "perubahan" itu adalah mutlak dan tidak bisa kita hindari. Dunia dan semua isinya akan berubah, berubah menuju ke kemajuan atau ke kehancuran tergantung dari kita2 ini yang harus meng-administrasi kewujutannya ,kayaknya. Baiklah saya sodorkan petilan nukilan dari buku The Davinci Code dimana angka simbolis,yang rahasia ini diungkap. Mulai dari page 131 dari buku berujut paperback ini bisa dibaca tentang hal ini. ............Langdon turned to face his sea of eager students."Who can tell me what this number is"...1.618? A long-legged maths major at the back raised his hand. "That's the number PHI" He pronounced it fee. "Nice job,Stettner"Langdon said."Everyone meet PHI""Not to be confused with PI"STettner added, grinning."As we mathematicians like to say:PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI" Langdon laughed, but nobody else seemed to get the joke. Settner slumped. "This number PHI,"Langdon continued"one-point-six-one-eight,is very important number in art. Who can tell me why?"Stettner tried to redeem himself. "Because it's so pretty".Everyone laughed. "Actually"Langdon said,"Stettner's right again.PHI is generally considered the most beautiful number in the UNIVERSE".The laughter abruptly stopped, and Stettner gloated. As Langdon loaded his slide projector, he explained that the number PHI was derived from the Fibonacci sequence-a progression famous not only because the sum of adjacent terms equalled the next term(1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21), but because the quotients of adjacent terms possessed the astonishing property of approaching the number 1.618-PHI! Despite PHI's seemingly mystical mathematical origins,Langdon explained, the truly mind-boggling aspect of PHI was its role as a fundamental building block in nature.Plants,animals and even human beings all possessed dimensional; properties that adhered with eerie exactitude to the ratio of PHI to 1. "PHI ubiquity in nature"Langdon said,killing the lights,"clearly exceeds coincidence,and so the ancients assumed the number PHI must have been preordained by the Creator of the universe. Early scientist heralded one-point-six-one-eight as the Devine Proportion" "Hold on"said a young woman in the front row"I'm a bio major and I've never seen this Devine Proportion in nature" "NO?" Langdon grinned."Ever study the relationship between females and males in a honeybee community?""Sure.The female bees always outnumber the male bees""Correct.And did you know that if you devide the number of females bees by the number of males bees in any beehive in the world, you allways get the same number""You do?""Yup.PHI"The girl gaped."NO WAY""Why!" Langdon fired back,smiling as he projected a slide of a spiral seashell."Recognize this?""It's a nautilus"the bio major said,"A cephalopod mollucs that pumps gas into its chambered shell to adjust its buoyancy" "Correct.And can you guess what the ratio is of each spiral's diameter to the next?"The girl looked uncertain as she eyed the concentric arcs of the nautilus spiral. Langdon nodded."PHI.The Devine Proportion.One-point-six-one-eight to one"The girl looked amazed. Langdon advanced to the next slide- a close-up of a sunflower'seed head."Sunflower seeds grow in opposing spirals. Can you guess the ratio of each rotation's diameter to the next?" "PHI?"everyone said. "Bingo"Landon began racing through slides now-spiralled pinecone petals,leaf arrangement astonishing obedience to the Divine Proportion. "This is amazing!" someone cried out."Yeah,someone else said"but what does it have to do with art?" "Aha!" Langdon said."Glad you asked"He pulled up another slide- a pale yellow parchment displaying Leonardo Davinci's famous male nude- The Vitruvian Man-named for Marcus Vitruvius, the brilliant Roman architect who praised the Devine Proportion in his text De Architectura. "Nobody understood better than Da Vinci the devine structure of the human body. Da Vinci actually exhumed corpses to measure the exact proportions of human bone structure. He was the first to show that the human body is literally made of building blocks whose proportional ratios always equal PHI" Everyone in class gave him a dubious look."Don't believe me?"Langdon challenged."Next time you're in the shower,take a tape measure"A couple of football players snickered. "Not just you insecure jocks"Langdon prompted."All of you.Guys and girls.Try it. Measure the distance from tip of your head to the floor.Then divide that by the distance from your belly button to the floor.Guess what number you get?" "Not PHI"one of the blurted out in disbelief. "Yes PHI" Landon replied. "One-point-six-one-eight.Want another example?Measure the distance from your shoulder to your fingertips,and then divide it by the distance from your elbow to yourfingertips.PHI again.Another?Hip to floor dividedby knee to floor.PHI again.Finer joints.Toes.Spinal divisions.PHI.PHI.PHI.My friends,each of you is a walking tribute to the Divine Proportion" Itulah sekilas petilan dari buku The Davinci Code yang sangat mengasyikkan plus kontroversial yang pasti menggeletik para pembaca yang kritis. Ketimbang bicara atau mengolah ke otentikan misalnya, maaf jangan tersinggung! buku2 suci seperti Torah,Injil dan Alquran yang mencoba memaksakan ke-otentikannya dikatakan bersumber pada sabda Tuhan/Allah, kenapa tidak berdiskusi tentang kebenaran yang di realita bisa diselidiki? Kebenaran ...PERUBAHAN adalah mutlak selalu akan ada dari lahirnya alam semesta sampai hari kiamat, semua kejadian ini di rudung oleh kebenaran abadi yakni PERUBAHAN. Ada sudah yang mencoba ke-otentikan angka 1.618?angka yang berlaku uniiversil?Angka yang melekat pada semua partikel kehidupan seperti kita2 ini ,bak ,a walking proof adanya The Devine Proportion? Harry Adinegara. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5F6XtA/.WnJAA/E2hLAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. 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