The LIX Unit Title    

Verified by :
 The Astronomical Unit ,   Light Speed, 

The Golden Section and Great Pyramid at Gizeh

new    The resolution of [G] and "Point Phive" chamber    new

a joey bee philix production

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 joseph edward batter and stephen langton goulet
(site opened dec 22 1996)
 updated may 2008


"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."  Albert Einstein


From the early Seventies until his death in July 1994 Joseph Edward Batter was fascinated with the Geometry of Nature,
in particular Pi, the Golden Section and their application to "Earth Measure". His extensive investigation
yielded an array of profound discoveries regarding Measure and Number.

 Joseph Batter was an accomplished design draftsman. Throughout the 1960's he produced the working technical drawings
for office towers, physical plants, hardrock mines and such. The profession demands more than steady hands, sharp eyes
and a disciplined mind. Drafting engineered designs of complex structures requires fixed attention to detail as well as
the capacity to view and comprehend whole systems.

Joe and I met in the Fall of 1979 over a coffee shop discussion around the Golden Section. At the time my interest
was primarily in the artistic applications. By then he was adept with numbers working out eight decimal divisions longhand.
A decades research into Natures' Numbers had Joe convinced there was a Universal Unit latent in the base 10 number system.
After several engaging discussions and the introduction of a scientific calculator a collaboration began. My main role
was to illustrate graphically Joes' numbers and lines; to ground his 'Earth Measure' in a natural setting.

Tri Ten Measure and lixcaliber, the golden section scale of "Earth  Measure"
       lix unit and lixcaliber

For newcomers and aficionados, a brief refresher on " phi ", the "Golden Section" ratio:
1.61803399 (rounded off at 8 digits). Nature is replete with this ratio in the proportions of area,
volume, the palisading growth of crystals and spirals.

The Number Phive

 5.5 x .5 + .5 = 1.61803399  = phi
( phive to the power of point phive, times point phive, plus point phive equals phi )

 1.61803399 to the second power = 2.61803399 = phi + 1 

 1 / 1.61803399 (the reciprocal) = .61803399  =   phi - 1 

 .61803399 x .61803399 + .61803399 = 1

The Power of Point Phive

    N (Phibo)nacci x 5.5 = Phi N = NLucas 

eg) phibo #19 = 4181,    4181 x 5.5 = 9349.0002 (phi19  ) = 9349 (#19 Lucas) 

Long viewed as an aesthetic standard in architecture and art, the "Golden" section
occurs when the ratio between the shorter section of a line to its longer section
is exactly equal to the ratio of the longer section to the whole line.

numerically:   .38196601 is to .61803399 as .61803399 is to 1

All addition series produce approximations of Phi.
One that does so in a unique way is the One Phive series: 1 + 5 = 6 + 5 = 11 + 6 = 17 etc

1, 5, 6, 11, 17, 28, 45, 73, 118, 191, 309, 500, 809, 1309, 2118, etc 

between 118 and 2118 are phive numbers centred on 500:

                                                                             191 / 500 =   .382
                                                                             309 / 500 =   .618
                                                                     500 / 500 =  1 
                                                                          809 / 500 = 1.618
                                                                          1309 / 500 = 2.618
             sum of these phive  =  3118


The Astronomical Unit

"Never chase after buses, wo\men or cosmological theories.
There will always be another along in a few minutes."  Issac Asimov

The Soul of the British Foot
The Astronomical Unit  (A.U.), the mean distance of the Earth from the Sun, is the basis for measurement
in the Solar System. Joseph Batter thought it possible the A.U. was one source of the Universal Unit of Measure.
At the time he was looking into the Planetary Mean Distance numbers, (Astronomical Ephemeris: 1979),
with the British Foot scaled in tenths, (1\600).  

Joe first converted the A.U. into Feet. The number is usually given now in Meters as 1.4959787 x 1011.
Convert to Feet by dividing Meters by .3048  =  4.9080666 x ( 1011) Feet.  

Because he was working to a high degree of accuracy a remarkable order of coincidence occurred
with the Planetary mean distance numbers. When the pattern wouldn't gel we began to realize
the Unit might not be the British Foot after all.

One of the exercises Joe performed with the A.U. in Feet was to multiply it by the number 33.

A.U. = (4.9080666 x 1011) x 33 = 1.619661978 x 1013 feet     

He noticed the result is a close approximation of the Golden Section.
Dividing by 1.618033988 produces the Conversion Ratio:

1.619661978 / 1.618033988 = 1.001006153

Conversely, dividing the Golden Section by 33 produces the Astronomical Unit.

Joe applied the 'ancient 'conversion to known measurements such as
the other Planetary mean distances, Light Speed and the Great Pyramid at Gizeh.
The results confirm the existence of a Planetary System of Measure based on the Golden Section and Pi.

Joseph Batter named the system " TriTen" and the unit, " lix".

 1.001006(153) feet  = 1 lix

" l" is for light speed, " i " the planetary mean distance set and " x " is for Time. 

This introduction reveals some of the incredible rediscoveries we've made with them.

 The A.U. fixed on phi

The mean distance of the Earth from the Sun:
( 1.61803399 / 33 ) x 1013 =  4.9031333 x 1011 lix

 4.9080666(ft) - 4.9031333 (lix) = .0049333

Light Speed (vacuum)

 25 x 5 x 33 = 5280 ,   825 = 52 x 33

982,582,582.5825 lix per sec