Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code 402
Reader eldavojohn tips the news of a researcher in the UK, Jay Kennedy, who has uncovered a hidden code in the writings of Plato. From the University of Manchester press release: "[Dr. Kennedy said] 'I have shown rigorously that the books do contain codes and symbols and that unraveling them reveals the hidden philosophy of Plato. This is a true discovery, not simply reinterpretation.' ... The hidden codes show that Plato anticipated the Scientific Revolution 2,000 years before Isaac Newton, discovering its most important idea — the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. ... Plato did not design his secret patterns purely for pleasure — it was for his own safety. Plato's ideas were a dangerous threat to Greek religion. He said that mathematical laws and not the gods controlled the universe. Plato's own teacher [Socrates] had been executed for heresy. Secrecy was normal in ancient times, especially for esoteric and religious knowledge, but for Plato it was a matter of life and death." Here is the paper (PDF), which was published in the journal Apeiron: A Journal of Ancient Philosophy and Science.
Dan Brown just came. (Score:4, Funny)
Dan Brown just came.
Hmmm (Score:2, Funny)
It's all Greek to me.
Re:Socrates, not Aristotle (Score:1, Funny)
Morons.
Re:Socrates, not Aristotle (Score:5, Funny)
Not "morons", it's "cretins", you cynic.
Re:Aristotle? Really? (Score:5, Funny)
You misunderstand. The errors are not really errors. They are part of the secret kdawson code.
Re:Dan Brown just came. (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, right, because the first thing he is worried about is having some basis in reality.
Re:Socrates, not Aristotle (Score:5, Funny)
"Think of the children" obviously already worked back then.
Re:Socrates, not Aristotle (Score:5, Funny)
Aristotle was a student of Plato
Wait a minute, those people were real?
Even more, they were rational!
Re:Socrates, not Aristotle (Score:4, Funny)
Socrates was the teacher of Plato who drank Hemlock after being sentenced to death the by the Athenians.
"I drank what?"
Re:Socrates, not Aristotle (Score:1, Funny)
Even more, they were rational!
yes yes, but they were also somewhat negative, at times, too.
Re:Riiiiight (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Socrates, not Aristotle (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Socrates, not Aristotle (Score:4, Funny)
"Well, Socrates was executed for being a radical."
Socrates was not executed, you cretin: he suicided.
Of course, the difference is transcendental.
Re:Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)
tg;dr?
Re:Dan Brown just came. (Score:4, Funny)
Turns out the poor guy was trying to give his wallet back.
Re:Socrates, not Aristotle (Score:5, Funny)
He was executed for time travel (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't you ever watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Everyone knows the Greeks were jacked when they saw Socrates go into a phone booth, disappear and then reappear. Worse, when he came back, he kept trying to tell the Greeks to "be excellent to each other". Unconventional beliefs, indeed.
The final straw came when the Greeks repeatedly insisted there is only one time traveling phone booth, and it belongs to The Doctor. Socrates said, "Nu-huh!" Heresy, indeed.
Re:Aristotle? Really? (Score:5, Funny)
"Kdawson, your are an idiot." - I hereby proclaim this to be Sasayaki's law. When insulting someone on the internet, it is likely you will make some horrible spelling or grammar error which results in everyone laughing at you. If you are picking on someone for their own spelling or grammar, the probability of this approaches 1.
This sentance is designated to proof this rule.