RE: VMs: A cryptological assault on Strong's decryption...

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 08:56 15/08/2004 -0400, John Grove wrote:
>                 Trying to understand the reason why Strong, Glen, and 
> Raymen are(were) so
> tied up in the same general theory is reason enough to try and figure out
> what the major points should be that we are all apparently blind to. I still
> can't see any real ground for saying a solution is in sight either, but am
> willing to keep listening to the explanations of why I'm missing the
> point(s). I agree it really is up to Glen to produce enough solid evidence
> that he has a solution - but I think he might be willing to admit that he
> hasn't quite got a 'solution' yet; just a process that appears to show some
> interesting output based upon a given theory.

Superficially, it does seem as thoug Strong, Rayman & GC have all fallen 
for the same "enchantment" (pace the historian Gerald Holton's "Ionian 
Enchantment", the seductive idea that all knowledge can be explained in 
terms of science).

But perhaps there is something there: for example, I've looked at a number 
of pages (based on GC's latest description) and can indeed see something 
that conjures up a "feeling of 12" - where groups of 12 glyphs seem 
connected in some way.

However, I'm also acutely aware that this "feeling" might simply be an 
artefact of the kind of binomial-like word-length distribution we see 
throughout the VMs - ie, 12 = 3+3+3+3, 4+4+4, 3+4+5, 3+3+6, 5+5+2, etc - 
rather than a cyclic key-length.

So: as I currently see it, there is almost certainly an "enchantment of 16" 
happening on a number of VMs pages, but I'm really unsure as to what is 
causing that enchantment. With luck we'll be able to work it out...

Finally: I've gone through Strong's work-sheets again, and (IMO) they make 
for depressing reading. Regardless of the [in]correctness of his 
methodology, when I see words like "germs" in a supposedly 16th century 
context (never mind "paprika"), I find it easiest to believe that it's a 
20th century mind projecting backwards onto a tabula rasa. Yet Strong may 
still have been driven to his false solution by a real artefact - it's hard 
to be sure.

Cheers, ....Nick Pelling.... 


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