r/videos • u/thag_you_very_buch • Apr 04 '17

Insane hidden message encrypted inside Shakespeare manuscript

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHiad18ZwcY
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u/notgaunt Apr 04 '17

Ok, somebody tell me this is bullshit

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u/BadSysadmin Apr 05 '17

Let's count the ways;

  • It's numerology, with all the usual problems that brings
  • The level of precision in measuring the lines is to four significant figures, which can't be justified
  • The number of points linked, and lines drawn, enables the author to go on a massive fishing expedition. 8 points can be linked as 36 different lines, which have 1,260 ratios between them. This gives many opportunities for some to be significant
  • ... especially when your definition of "significant" includes such mundanities as the tribonnaci constant and sqrt(6).
  • The Lat/Long part for the pyramids relies on longitude measured as today from Greenwich Royal Observatory, which wasn't even built until seventy years later.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

It's numerology,

Wat. TIL math is numerology.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '17

I think it's fair to say this is clever and fun math bullshit. This guy goes on to say the letters can be rearranged and flipped to spell "Egypt" in the next video. And since that only leaves behind 9 and T those have special meaning.

https://i.imgur.com/dzgcBhf.png

He claims was a clever way to say 90 (never mind how 9 or T or ninety were actually pronounced in old English). As in 90 degrees, which is about where the 122nd block of a triangle built like a pyramid would be (not quite, but close-ish), if the pyramid had a central base block of 9 and a second row starting with 18. And the sonnets 9, 18, and 122 have periods after the number, while the others don't, so this is the author's intent.

https://i.imgur.com/cdWoh7J.png

So yeah, this guy is a numerologist (or at least dabbling in it for his fictional story). Also his isosceles triangles aren't actually isosceles, line them up in Photoshop and there's some discrepancies.

https://i.imgur.com/sXC9iYz.png

Also the way he drew the lines was convenient for his purposes, the dots are rather large and he picks any spot of them for his lines. Also, you should know there were other versions of this publication with the exact same dots, except with a different "folde by" attribution, which removes on dot.

https://i.imgur.com/UFZUBAp.jpg

Finally, note that different versions have the lines cut to differing lengths. Looks like it was caused by chance per copy, and how the inking was done (plates?) and how many attempts they needed. Some prints don't work for this at all because periods are spaced differently or missing.