The Parthenon of ancient Athens is considered a cultural icon of Western civilization. He has recently revealed optical principles that are now transforming our basic understanding of modern science, sparking a new Renaissance.
In 1687, a Turkish military commander used the Parthenon to store gunpowder during a military engagement against a bombardment by Venetian cannons. A Venetian shot blew up the gunpowder leaving the Parthenon in ruins. The current restoration of the Parthenon used computer technology to measure where the various parts of the original structure fit together. An important discovery was made from this process. The Parthenon had been carefully built to conform to the lost principles of optical engineering.
While the records of much of ancient Greek science have been destroyed as pagan heresy, we do know that optical engineering principles for a spiritual reality once existed. Plato recorded that engineers who did not understand such optical principles were barbarians who were not fit to call themselves philosophers.
In her online book, A Fuller Explanation, Professor Amy Edmondson, President of Novartis at Harvard University, wrote about Plato’s optical discoveries. She admonished Buckminster Fuller for his enthusiastic delight in newly discovered truths, but she forgave him for appearing to take credit for Plato’s engineering principles relevant to spiritual optics. We can assume that these principles are related to the optical secrets hidden in the Parthenon. The term ‘spiritual reality’ can now be equated with holographic reality, which is known to be associated with the workings of liquid crystal fractal logic. That logic is relevant to Buckminster Fuller’s theory of synergetics, a spiritual life force energy that acts in defiance of the logic held by modern mechanistic science.
During the fifth century AD, such life force speculation challenged the power of the Christian hierarchy. Pope Cyril of Alexandria appears to have encouraged the followers of Christianity to riot and burn the scrolls belonging to the Agora, or Great Library of Alexandria. The Custodian of the Library, the famous mathematician Hypatia, was killed by the rioting mob. The 2009 Hollywood movie Agora records the events leading up to her death in 415. History records that Saint Augustine, at that time, wrote that Hypatia’s mathematics belonged to the work of the devil.
Recently, NASA’s High Energy Astrophysics Library has published papers explaining that the classical Greek worldview was built on the geometry of fractal logic. Modern science readily accepts that fractal logic extends to infinity, but remains governed by the second law of thermodynamics. Einstein classified the second law as the first law of all science. As this law, also known as the universal law of heat death, dooms all life to eventual extinction, any science of life with infinite fractal logic becomes inconceivable. It can now be seen that Augustine’s classification of the science of Hypatia’s life as the work of the devil has seriously contaminated modern science, a contamination that greatly concerns Buckminster Fuller. Following the fractal logic publications of NASA, it would seem reasonable to be able to demonstrate errors in the popular evaluation of the Augustinian philosophy of the 20th century.
Encyclopaedia Britannica lists Augustine’s mind as the crucible that most completely fused the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy with New Testament religion, influencing both Catholic and Protestant beliefs today. Fuller’s synergistic mathematics of life forms, derived from Plato’s spiritual optics, is now the basis of a new medical chemistry developed by three 1996 Nobel laureates in chemistry. If Hypatia’s mathematics were tied to the logic of Plato’s fractal life science, then Western scientific culture would seem to be in a state of spiritual confusion. In his book, Beyond Socrates, the celebrated Cambridge University philosopher of Greek thought, FM Cornford. he included Plato as one of the greatest fathers of the Christian Church, which is simply an impossible concept considering that Plato’s work is the work of the Devil.
The second law of thermodynamics completely governs all aspects of the dominant Western technological culture. While mainstream science readily accepts that the fundamental property of fractal logic is that it extends to infinity, this fact cannot be understood within Einstein’s 20th-century worldview, in which all life is doomed to death. extinction by thermal death. We can now see the meaning of Fuller’s book title, Utopia or Oblivion.
This book echoed the thrust of the famous 1959 Rede Lecture, delivered by molecular biologist CP Snow, who warned that unless modern science is brought together with the life science ethos of classical Greece , civilization as we know it must be destroyed. The lost optical secrets of the Parthenon can be seen as quite an important discovery.
Copyright © Robert Pope 2010