Below is a provocative story from NASA about a cyclical "magnetic portal" between the earth and the sun.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30oct_ftes.htm It is associated with an approximate eight-minute-cycle. Funny, they do not mention Schumann Resonance in this article but maybe that resonance is too "fringe" for NASA... or maybe they are google-challenged. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances In trying to determine if there was a broader relevance to this 8-min cycle, I spent some time googling, but nothing really stuck out as being both relevant and very basic (in an historical sense that would tie it to the present worldwide standard). There is a small chance that the period of time we associate with an hour is somehow related to this cycle, if only on a subconscious level. After all, an octave is a very basic resonance in music, and the "eight minutes" is only approximate for the magnetic windowing - so if were slightly less, especially in prehistory, then there is a rough fit to the eight cycles giving this time period (now known as an hour) as a standard period that early man had not problem with accepting across various cultures ... but that synchronicity would be much more convincing if there were a "natural" resonance on earth which was timed accordingly -- so that we do not need to bring the "subconscious" into this. Anyway - If there is a natrual ~8-min cycle, which would have been evident to early civilizations, I haven't found it yet. The Ancient Egyptians are credited with establishing the division of the day and night into 12 parts, nowever, although this might not have "taken" worldwide as the universal standard period of time lapse - had not both China and India done the same thing in prehistory - all using 12 divisions. The importance of 12 has been attributed to the number of lunar cycles in a year and/or the 12 constellations in the zodiac signs. But - in order to base a full day on that - and going back to first principles - then why is the present hour not equivalent to 120 minutes, so that you get twelve divisions in the full day - instead of 24 in a full day ? Is that consideration - of a natural lapse of time - the place where the 8 subconscious repetitions of the 8 minute cycle could fit in? Dunno. However. it could go even further down the chain of resonance to the next lowest level. The Schumann Resonance is more familiar to many of us, since there are energy implications. This a set of peaks in the ELF portion of the Earth’s electromagnetic field spectrum. ELF - Extremely Low Frequencies (or ELF) refers to a band of radio frequencies from about one to 300Hz. Schumann Resonance is often said to be related to precisely 7.8 Hz, but that seems to be incorrect- as there is apparenly no single Schumann peak and sometimes the 7.8 disappears in favor of another. However, given the ~8 Hz is the most common resonance in that range - and the ~.125 Hz of the NASA study is an 8X8 multiple of Schumann, and both are magnetic in orientation: the tentative conclusion is that they be possibly related to each other, and to early civilation; and it all gets most interesting as to "a natural lapse of time" in the evolved subconscious mind (if you can overlook the slight lack of precision). Is it all coincidental? Jones
