"##$%&'()*+)Sexagesimal And The Cosmic Calendar
My book Abstract Cosmology could have easily been called The Book of Six, it was
Buckminster Fuller who said “Nature employs 60 degree coordination”. Sixty degrees are the
degrees of an equilateral triangle. The triangle is the structure that encloses an area with the
least amount of sides. Buckminster Fuller said, systems of triangles are the the only inherently
stable patterns. The regular hexagon, a six-sides polygon tessellates as equilateral, 60 degree,
inherently stable equilateral triangles. It was the scientist Shubnikov who said among the living
organisms the pattern with which we most frequently meet is five-fold symmetry. It is well
known that the physical, like snowflakes, are six-fold symmetry. Thus we should not be
surprised that our Abstract Cosmology is founded on six-fold symmetry. Two and three are the
smallest prime numbers and their product is six. Two times six is twelve, the number most
evenly divisible by whole numbers for its size (it is a so-called abundant number: divisible
evenly by 1,2,3,4,6, their sum is 16 which is greater than twelve itself and, three times six is
eighteen, the cyclical Nature of the periodic table (18 groups). !
At the dawn of civilization, the Sumerians who settled down from wandering, gathering, and
hunting, to invent agriculture and and build ceramic homes, developed the first mathematics,
and it was this sexagesimal (base 60) that passed on to the Babylonians, then ended up with
the Ancient Greeks, who divided not just the hour into 60 minutes of time and the minute into
60 seconds of time, but who divided the sky into hours, minutes, and seconds of arc which
was measured in time counted by the rotation of the Earth, and its orbital period around the
Sun, and the orbital period of the Moon around the Earth.!
We are suggesting nature is founded on six-fold symmetry, six which is constructed by
multiplying together the first two prime numbers, 2 and 3. Two factorial is two, three factorial is
6. Two times six is twelve, the number of months in a year, approximated by our moon’s
approximately 12 orbits around the earth in the time it takes the earth to go around the sun
once. There are four weeks in a lunar month, and!
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Is the number of seconds in the 24 hour Earth day. The duration of one second comes from
dividing up time and the sky like this in base 60, that came from the Sumerians, Babylonians,
and Ancient Greeks and it is believed they did this because 60 is evenly divisible by!
1,2,3,4,5,6,…12,15,20,30,60,…!
The moon orbits the Earth in approximately 30 rotations of the Earth, hence the 30 day month.
January has 31 days, February 29, March 31, April 30 May 31, June 30, July 31, August 31,
September 30, October 31, November 30, December 31. This averages out to!
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We divide a circle into 360 units called degrees, which is six squared times ten. As such the
equilateral triangle has each angle equal to 60 degrees. There are approximately 360 earth
rotations in the time it orbits the sun once, Hence in one day the Earth moves through
approximately one degree in one day in its 365 day journey around the Sun. The sidereal
month, the time it takes the moon to return to the same position against the background of the
stars is 27 days 7 hours 43 minutes. We see the power of sexagesimal (base 60) in computing
time with the month divided into days, hours, and seconds where there are 60 minutes in an