User:Nick Emmerson

The Spiral Calendar is a book written by Christopher Carolan in 1992 and published by New Classics Library, Post Office Box 1618, Gainesville, Georgia 30503, USA. Printed in USA by Braun-Brumfield Inc.

It is available for sale on Amazon.com but not Amazon.co.uk

The purpose of the book is to explain how world disasters both physical (earthquakes, tidal waves, floods,) and financial crashes.

Robert Prechter (author of the Elliott Wave Theory) wrote a forward which is published in the book.

In order to calculate a particular date, it sets out to show that you need a reliable counting system and an accurate way of predicting time lapsed.

The counting system used is called the Fibonacci sequence. Fibonacci was born in Pisa in the roman empire, as such he used the roman counting system which did not have a value for zero, therefore his sequence started with 1, the next digit was also 1 and then 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on; the new number being created by adding the sum of the previous two numbers together.

After the forth number in the sequence something strange occurs, the larger number is 1.618 of the smaller number and the smaller number is 0.618 of the larger number, it is the only number which is the reprocipical of itself, Spirals using this sequence appear in seashells and sunflower seeds, so it is a natual occuring phenomen.

The Roman Calender (still used by the world) is not considered accurate enough to be used as a timescale, so instead a lunar calender is used.

Imagine that it is 12.00 noon at Greenwich and the moon is directly overhead, then precisely 27 days later the moon will again be directly overhead, but the earth, moon and sun have all moved further on their orbits and to get to the precise point in the solar system takes another 2.5306 days, so a lunar month is 29.5306 days and not the 28 days used by insurance companies.

Here I encounter problems, it is possible to purchase this information but it is extremely expensive costing thousands of dollars, the last time I checked it was $75,000 and I don't have that kind of money. I am informed that both Israel and China use the lunar calendar but I can't find any references on the internet.

The purpose of the book is to highlight bear markets and major stock market crashes, but if this works on natural phenomana then it would be useful to know in advance when a volcano was about to erupt (Haiti) or a tsunami was about to devastate several continents.