The Parthenon in ancient Athens is considered a cultural icon of Western civilization. He has recently revealed optical principles that are now transforming our basic understanding of modern science, sparking a new Renaissance.

In 1687, a Turkish military commander used the Parthenon to store gunpowder during a military engagement against a barrage of Venetian cannons. A Venetian shot set off the gunpowder leaving the Parthenon in ruins. The current restoration of the Parthenon used computer technology to measure where the various parts of the original structure fit together. An important discovery was made from this process. The Parthenon had been carefully built to conform to lost principles of optical engineering.

While the records of much of ancient Greek science have been destroyed as pagan heresy, we know that optical engineering principles for a spiritual reality once existed. Plato recorded that engineers who did not understand such optical principles were barbarians who were not fit to be called philosophers.

In her online book, A Fuller Explanation, Professor Amy Edmondson, President of Novartis at Harvard University, wrote about Plato’s optical discoveries. She admonished Buckminster Fuller for his enthusiastic delight in newly discovered truths, but she forgave him for appearing to take credit for Plato’s engineering principles relevant to spiritual optics. We can assume that these principles are related to the optical secrets hidden in the Parthenon. The term ‘spiritual reality’ can now be equated with holographic reality, which is known to be associated with the workings of liquid crystal fractal logic. That logic is relevant to Buckminster Fuller’s theory of synergetics, a spiritual life force energy that works in defiance of the logic held by modern mechanistic science.

During the fifth century AD, such speculation about the life force challenged the power of the Christian hierarchy. Pope Cyril of Alexandria seems to have encouraged followers of Christianity to riot and burn the scrolls belonging to the Agora, or Great Library of Alexandria. The Library Custodian, the famous mathematician Hypatia, was killed by the rioting mob. The 2009 Hollywood film Agora records the events leading up to her death in 415. History records that Saint Augustine, at that time, wrote that Hypatia’s mathematics belonged to the work of the devil.

Recently, NASA’s High Energy Astrophysics Library has published papers explaining that the classical Greek worldview was built on the geometry of fractal logic. Modern science readily accepts that fractal logic extends to infinity, but it remains governed by the second law of thermodynamics. Einstein classified the second law as the first law of all science. As this law, also known as the universal law of heat death, dooms all life to eventual extinction, any science of life with infinite fractal logic becomes inconceivable. It can now be seen that Augustine’s classification of Hypatia’s science of life as the work of the devil has seriously contaminated modern science, a contamination that greatly troubles Buckminster Fuller. Following NASA’s fractal logic publications, it would seem reasonable to be able to demonstrate errors in the popular evaluation of 20th century Augustinian philosophy.

Encyclopaedia Britannica lists the mind of Augustine as the crucible that more fully fused the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy with New Testament religion, influencing both Catholic and Protestant beliefs today. Fuller’s synergistic mathematics of life forms, derived from Plato’s spiritual optics, is now the basis of a new medicinal chemistry developed by three 1996 Nobel laureates in chemistry. If Hypatia’s mathematics were tied to the logic of Plato’s fractal science of life, then Western scientific culture would appear to be in a state of spiritual confusion. In his book, Beyond Socrates, the famous philosopher of Greek thought from the University of Cambridge, FM Cornford. he listed Plato as one of the greatest fathers of the Christian Church, which is simply an impossible concept considering Plato’s work to be the work of the devil.

The second law of thermodynamics completely governs all aspects of the dominant Western technological culture. While conventional science readily accepts that the fundamental property of fractal logic is that it extends to infinity, this fact cannot be understood within Einstein’s 20th century worldview, in which all life is doomed to death. extinction by heat death. Now we can see the meaning of the title of Fuller’s book, Utopia or oblivion.

This book echoed the thrust of the famous 1959 Rede Lecture, delivered by molecular biologist CP Snow, who warned that unless modern science meets the classical Greek ethos of life science , civilization as we know it must be destroyed. The lost optical secrets of the Parthenon can be seen as quite an important discovery.

Copyright © Robert Pope 2010