- Joined Oct 2017 | Status: Trader | 12,472 Posts
Always about Jim Sloman and Welles Wilder explaining to the Delta Members ($3.500 membership fee) the great, last discovery showed by Jim Sloman at the London's "Directors" ($35.000 membership fee) meeting of the Delta Society International :
About a year or so later, I had scheduled a DELTA Directors meeting to be held in London.(By then we had a significant number of DELTA Directors from Europe.) Jim called from California and said that he had made another discovery regarding DELTA, and since the Directors meeting was to be held in about 2 weeks, he would like to present this discovery to everyone (including me) at that meeting. Virtually all the Directors showed up in London for that meeting !
Jim made his presentation using two overhead projectors so that 2 charts could be exactly overlaid on the screen. I will now try to describe briefly the discovery Jim had made.
Jim began,"Where my house is on the beach, when the tide is out there is a nice sandy beach; but when the tide is in, the water comes all the way to the rocks at the seawall. My girlfriendrunson the beach every day and therefore uses TIDE CHARTS to know when the tide will be out so she can run.
Several weeks ago I was taking a break from working at my computer when I noticed all these tide charts lying around. I picked one up and nonchalantly dropped it back on the table when suddenly I realized what I had just seen.
A tide chart is a picture of an end result of the interaction of the sun, the moon, and the earth! the screen is a projection of a typical tide chart."
"I knew immediately that this had to be important, but I didn't know how. I began to study the few charts that I had. The charts are similar to a sinewave.
I noticed that each day had 2 variables, the height of the wave and the time of day that the peaks and depths occurred. On the charts I had, no 2 days were exactly alike. This observation suggested a question.
How long would it be until a day occurred that was identical to the current day?
Would this not represent one complete interaction of the sun, the moon, and the earth?
About a year or so later, I had scheduled a DELTA Directors meeting to be held in London.(By then we had a significant number of DELTA Directors from Europe.) Jim called from California and said that he had made another discovery regarding DELTA, and since the Directors meeting was to be held in about 2 weeks, he would like to present this discovery to everyone (including me) at that meeting. Virtually all the Directors showed up in London for that meeting !
Jim made his presentation using two overhead projectors so that 2 charts could be exactly overlaid on the screen. I will now try to describe briefly the discovery Jim had made.
Jim began,"Where my house is on the beach, when the tide is out there is a nice sandy beach; but when the tide is in, the water comes all the way to the rocks at the seawall. My girlfriendrunson the beach every day and therefore uses TIDE CHARTS to know when the tide will be out so she can run.
Several weeks ago I was taking a break from working at my computer when I noticed all these tide charts lying around. I picked one up and nonchalantly dropped it back on the table when suddenly I realized what I had just seen.
A tide chart is a picture of an end result of the interaction of the sun, the moon, and the earth! the screen is a projection of a typical tide chart."
"I knew immediately that this had to be important, but I didn't know how. I began to study the few charts that I had. The charts are similar to a sinewave.
I noticed that each day had 2 variables, the height of the wave and the time of day that the peaks and depths occurred. On the charts I had, no 2 days were exactly alike. This observation suggested a question.
How long would it be until a day occurred that was identical to the current day?
Would this not represent one complete interaction of the sun, the moon, and the earth?
- Joined Feb 2006 | Status: Trader | 2,175 Posts
{quote}{quote} VWB
What PB has going here is much more appealing & understandable for me now. Maybe old age has mellowed my tolerance for the lines & a few other things too.
