Originally posted by gandalph
Originally posted by John Matrix
The timewave theory not only explains the knowledge explosion, it predicts it with accuracy. It accurately predicts the rise and fall of the Romam
Empire, the discovery of America, WW1 and WW2, the atomic bomb, and so on.
It doesn't predict anything. It cannot predict past events, as they already happened long long before this theory.
This is a classic example of hindsight 20/20. Look, here's a change in the graph, let's see what happened in 469 c.e. Oooh, we could relate this dip
to a big event that happened in 470, not exact, but close enough...
Show me what it predicts for the future, and not some generalities that oracles or palm/card/crystal ball readers have been using for thousands
of years.
Naturally, if one had a timewave calculator in 4000BC it would not tell them that the rise and fall of the Roman Empire or WW1 and WW2 would take
place on such and such dates. That is not what I meant.
The timewave would have looked the same if it was discovered in 4000BC, and the peeks and valley's of Novelty and Habit would also look the same.
Those past events fall into the valley's and peaks on the timewave and resonate with past and future events. It's not a crystal ball or fortune
cookie. But it does tell us about past and future Novelty and Habit events which have or will effect us.
I don't want to do the theory any injustice, but let me put it this way: It's like finding an ancient book that predicts future periods of Novelty
and Habit right down to the last day, and by using the present historical records, we check to see how well it predicts major events that took place
in the past. If it checks out as being consistently accurate, then we can assume that the dips and valleys and compression of the timewave will
accurately predict the future Novelty and Habit events as well. The wave resonates, so this can also be checked out for accuracy using past events.
So it is in that sense that I meant the timewave accurately predicts those events.
However, the knowledge explosion is predicted by Timewave Zero. It would have been self evident no matter when it was discovered.