StarGate Zero
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Time Wave Zero and 2012

Terrance McKenna developed an interest in the Chinese I-Ching tiles and discovered what he thought was a calendar system within the King Wen sequence. When he examined the first order of difference in the  sequences, he found a system that produced time intervals that seemed important to the Chinese people.

64 tiles	X  6 lines per tile	= 384 days	= 13 lunar months
13 lunar months	X 64 Tiles	= 67 yrs + 104 days	= 6 minor sunspot cycles of 11.2 years
6 sunspot cycles	X 64 Tiles	= 4306 yrs	= 2 Zodiac ages
2 Zodiac ages	X 6 lines per tile	= 25836 yrs	= 1 complete precession of the equinoxes

Cycles within cycles... reminiscent of the Mayan calendar isn't it?

McKenna designed a computer program based on his findings, and the program produces a graph of the first order differences. He called this the Time Wave, and believed it represents the amount of Novelty in the world at any time point on the graph. Novelty can be likened to the product of creativity, and its opposite could be described as habit.

Here is a site which shows the results of the time wave graphically.

The remarkable thing about this graph is that it reaches infinite Novelty on Dec 22, 2012. The mystery though is how he calibrated the graph so that dates matched up with events in history. McKenna is said to have not known anything about the Mayan calendar, so it is unlikely that he calibrated the dates to coincide with that.

For a more in-depth look at the mathematics and reasoning, you can read McKenna's own thoughts.