This may be lightweight, but not exactly off-topic.
Any Vortician who might have anecdotal (but arguably scientific)
information on relevance of *fourteen-day* or two week cycles, is
invited to post that data to this thread. Also important is any regular
cycle which might influence an energy experiment (which is notoriously
difficult to reproduce).
Fred Sparber, in a private post brought this old thought to mind once
again, as he was quoting this solar info:
The solar flux is dependent on the number of sunspots. Increases in
solar flux indicate the growth of sunspot areas on the sun, while
decreases in the solar flux indicate the disappearance of sunspots.
Since the sun rotates with a period of 27.5 days, the sunspots visible
from earth fluctuates with about the same period, with a small
adjustment (the earth's yearly relative position). Sunspots rotate out
of view and then reappear on the opposite side of the sun about 14 days
later. This cyclic pattern is correlated to the solar flux, so sunspots
facing away from earth may also be of interest. This is one of but many
solar cycles.
LENR or other experiments, involving energy anomalies -- those which are
not fully reproducible, may have some hidden coordination to this or
other solar periodicity.
Notice this solar periodicity wrt lunar. The "month," of course, is the
period related to the motion of the Moon, and the solar period is
ostensibly incidental to that. Each "lunation" or synodic month lasts
approximately 29.53 days. The motion of the moon from earth is NOT
constant. Wiki has a good writeup on this.
An interesting point here could be the ~2 day gap between the solar and
lunar periods, as seen from earth ... and more importantly for
experimenters, there exists two or more "external" energy inputs which
are coordinated by this gap (gravity or lunar tidal flux and solar
sunspot flux). It seems that these two would align only once every 182+
days. If an experiment seemed to be "OU" on New Years day and not again
till July 1, then it is probably not OU at all but still "heavenly".
OK. Going back into historical human activity- we have the very basic
time units of a 7 day week and four week month (28+day), but
intermediary to these is the so-called "fortnight" (at least in English
speaking countries). The fortnight is said to be an 'artificial' unit of
time equal to two weeks. It may actually be more "basic" and natural a
period for some activities then the others.
BTW - In one quirk related to computer history - in Digital's VAX or VMS
operating system, configuration parameters could be specified in
microfortnights (one millionth of a fortnight, or 1.2096 seconds).
Millifortnights (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnights (1.2096
milliseconds) have also been used occasionally in computer science, but
usually in an attempt force users to set parameters only after giving it
some thought (according to Wiki).
Not sure that means anything, other than giving an indication of why
Digital, which could have "had it all" had it been aggressive in
countering the IBM PC with a competitively priced microVAX instead of
splitting hairs by fortnights - instead is a dinosaur whose meme-pool
still lingers at HP and Intel (who got a steal with the ARM tech).
Jones
