When the Z340 was decoded, some years ago now, I don’t think that anyone was surprised to learn that the ‘original artifact’ which was set into code would have been a piece of paper with some inane sentences written on it by hand and conveying nothing of interest at all. Of course, the actual artifact as a physical object was not recovered, but the text was.
We don’t have even this much currently for the Z32. That said, however, it is still possible to propose the ‘form’ of the original artifact in this case also. Essentially, but by way of example only, uncomplicated logic must have us believe it would have been nothing any-the-less concrete and tangible than this:
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
[cont…]
Of course, when it came to the encoding in this latter case, you can’t ‘encode’ a physical map. So, what you do is you take the coordinates (bearing, range) of the marked location of your device and you encode that. Again, the process of obtaining the coordinates is nothing more complicated than an act of measurement, so:
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
[cont…]
Having then composed the coordinates into a cipher you can’t, of course, just send this alone, so you have to send the original map as well – being sure, of course, that you first erase the site location ‘x’. You post this:
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
[cont…]
… and, having done so, you can then sit back for the next 50 years and watch while legions of sleuths set out to demonstrate how you must have applied some method exponentially more intricate than simply this.
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
[cont…]
… and, having done so, you can then sit back for the next 50 years and watch while legions of sleuths set out to demonstrate how you must have applied some method exponentially more intricate than simply this.
Measure 3 and 3/8ths inches along the 10 o’ clock vector from the Mt. Diablo summit, adjusted for magnetic declination.
Done.
Apparently you are excluded from the legion of sleuths you speak of.
IN THREE AND THREE EIGHTHS RADIANS TEN projects to a 100 foot equilateral triangle landmark, just south of Lake Herman Road.
Measure 3 and 3/8ths inches along the 10 o’ clock vector from the Mt. Diablo summit, adjusted for magnetic declination.
Sure. As good as any other example, should we have needed a second one.
And that would be here, then, where the arrow is pointing at B:
(Just forget about A for the moment. That’s pointing to a different place entirely, with totally different map coordinates.)
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
IN THREE AND THREE EIGHTHS RADIANS TEN projects to a 100 foot equilateral triangle landmark, just south of Lake Herman Road.
Um, no! That’s the cow bath that’s kinda near the point A which we ignored above. Unless you want to correct me and show me different?
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
Measure 3 and 3/8ths inches along the 10 o’ clock vector from the Mt. Diablo summit, adjusted for magnetic declination.
Sure. As good as any other example, should we have needed a second one.
And just to bring things back to the theme of this thread – consideration of the Zodiac’s ‘original artifact’, from which the Z32 is constructed – we would reconstruct it now as, essentially:
So, this is what we would be taking our ruler and compass to in our second case example. Ok.
Isn’t this DMW’s original solution from 2019?
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)