Kent Paul Dolan wrote:

monkey factor numerology and nothing else.


Wow! First I am accused of "voodoo" and now it is "monkey factor
numerology"!

Here is a simple way to decide whether what I am doing is "numerology"
or bears a direct relationship to the underlying patterns and
principles upon which nature is based.

Go to www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw and check out two things:

1. In the "Main Ideas" section see the basic self-similar scaling
equations that are fundamental to the Discrete Fractal Paradigm.
[Details of their derivation are found in Paper #2 of the "Selected
Papers" section (most papers have been published)].

2. Once you know what the discrete self-similar scaling equations are
(always better to proceed from a position of knowledge and
understanding), see the section: "Successful
Predictions/Retrodictions". There you will find a list of about 33
fundamental properties of nature that have been predicted or
retrodicted by these simple scaling equations.

3. Once you complete steps 1 and 2, ask yourself how such a simple set
of scaling rules can possibly relate so many different and fundamental
things. Note that the overwhelming majority of the results were found
*after* the scaling equations were published. Note also that the
scaling equations have *never been changed* to achieve "concordance".

4. If you still have doubts, try devising an alternative set of scaling
rules that is anything but, in Maxwell's words, "an unnatural and
self-contradictory mass of rubbish".

Oh, and I almost forgot the most important thing. If you approach any
new and slightly radical idea with a closed mind, it will look wrong,
regardless of its true value.

Robert L. Oldershaw