Harmonics Theory

I realized a few years back that much of the information that went into suggesting the Harmonics theory is far from common knowledge. So let me give some interesting links that support the background. The findings that I mention here are just a small sample, the tip, of the iceberg as it were. Edward R Dewey was the director of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles from 1941 until he dies in 1979. When it was formed, there were many famous scientists, businessmen and even a vice president of the USA who were on the board of FSC. [Note the FSC stopped operating in the late 1990s and the newly formed FSC is a very different organization] Dewey summarized the findings of decades of research into cycles in every discipline with this paper: http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.o...for_cycles.pdf I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand more about how the universe works. His findings that common cycles often have periods with ratios of 2 and 3 predates such concepts as chaos theory and other non-linear systems that develop such harmonic ratios. The cycles found in the Sun in the following years (1980s onwards) continue to show the same harmonic structure. There are cycles with periods 26, 52, 78 and 156 days and others. The 2 and 3 ratios indicate some special cause. Dewey never found the cause but I have found something that explains the whole structure of cycles found by Dewey as well as these additional ones found since he died. See http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.o...olar154day.pdf At a geological conference studying cycles in geology, a book was published called "Megacycles" and edited by well known Australian geologist George Williams. It too lists cycles of period about 600, 300, 150, 74 and 37 million years, all ratios of 2. I visited Russia in about 1995 and was lucky to meet Moscow University Geology Prof S Afanasiev who has determined that longest cycle as being accurately 586.24 million years. From the harmonics theory it is possible to predict a unique pattern of harmonically related cycles. It turns out that this unique pattern matches the observed cycles of Dewey and another thousand researchers in the range of a few months to a... [Excerpted from the archived discussion.]

Now there's a name I haven't heard of in a v-e-e-e-e-ery long time. I'm sorry to hear of his passing. You know Ray (may I call you Ray; your photo indicates that you're younger than I) sometimes the simplest answer is not only the easiest but the 'cleanest' and most correct. I was a big fan of Ed's back in the day before I got busy with life. Now that you've reminded me, I'll have to go back and dig up all that research (that is if I haven't 'lost' it or -more likely- my wife hasn't got rid of it.... ).

Not quite Occam's Razor , but it's certainly an adjunct to it. [/quote]From the harmonics theory it is possible to predict a unique pattern of harmonically related cycles.[/quote] What about "cycles" which are truly chaotic i.e. non-repetitious?

Hi David Yes you may call me Ray. Unfortunately I never met Edward R Dewey, but I have met his son Ned. By the time I heard of FSC he was long gone. I do have a four volume set "Cycles Classic Library Collection" which was put out by FSC in 1987 and which includes most of the best articles from Cycles magazine up to that time, a big proportion of them by Ed. He said that he felt like Tycho Brahe who collected a vast amount of cycles data and was waiting for Kepler to come along and make sense of the patterns in it. I think that Harmonics Theory is the equivalent for cycles that Kepler's laws were for planetary motions. If you have some stories from the old days, I would love to hear them. Please see Cycles Research Institute's web site where some of Ed's papers are posted and further cycles studies. LINK: Cycles Research Institute Regards Ray

Cycles can be divided in a number of different classifications based on regularity and uniformity. In practice though there is no such thing as perfectly regular. For example the length of a day varies because the earth's orbit is elliptical and because of the axial tilt and the seasons. Even more, it varies because of climatic fluctuations which affect its angular momentum. The best atomic clocks have slight fluctuations which can be checked against pulsars which are the most steady clocks known. But even they have variations when there are "star quakes" as the matter settles under cooling. At the other extreme would be genuine chaos. Mathematical chaos is not totally unpredictable, it may be predictable for a few cycles and then the uncertainty of initial conditions means that we don't know which way it will go. However I have found that several systems that have been attributed to mathematical chaos are actually better explained by Harmonics theory. That does not mean that we cannot design systems that are unpredictable, these can surely be made. But Edward Dewey said in every field of study (every scientific and natural discipline) all sufficiently long time series are found to have real cycles. I have also found this to be true. But if we have insufficient data, we will not be able to find the cycles. Also, the cycles found will not account for all of the fluctuations in any case. Even the supposedly most random thing in physics, the decay of radioactive isotopes has been found to have cycles. The Russians have done continuous measurements since about the 1970s and histograms of the number of events of periods like an hour show that they tend to recur after periods of 1 day, 1 lunar month, and 1 year. That means that even radioactive decay is subtly influenced by cosmic alignments. Using the Russian data I found (as predicted in advance) that there were 3 and 6 minute cycles in Plutonium decay. The Russian scientists confirmed that these two cycles were present through 18 years of data that they had stored. In the last few years, western scientists have also begun to report cycles in radioactive decay rates. Mostly the 1 year cycle, which they... [Excerpted from the archived discussion.]