Out of Bounds: A Possible Hint at An Optical Mechanism for Astrological Effects

A working paper, based on a previously tweeted thread.

Planets leave trails of dust in their wake. They happen to be along the ecliptic. This makes up the “zodiacal light.” Video from @NASA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0jLXEzFXE

Dust from comets has been observed to create laser light, albeit outside of the visible spectrum, as a result of light bouncing around in that dust and getting excited or pumped, both of which are technical terms for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_maser#Comets.

So we have a bunch of donuts in space aligned with the ecliptic.

(source: PhD Thesis of Sir Brian May at Imperial College London) https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/entities/publication/3d426771-aa65-4ac5-a546-42b23881e3db

While the white and blue rings in the image are intended to represent comets, we can easily imagine that a planet, such as Mars, could similarly spend some outside of the main portion of the torus. And if astrological effects result from some sort of optical cavity in the shape of a whispering gallery (which is a known way to cause laser phenomena), it would make sense that an astrological effect would be modified while the object of interest is no longer within its typical optical cavity. A study could be done correlating high declinations and/or out of bounds planets to lessened or changed astrological effects based on this principle.

In addition, the planets each reflect light from the sun, but they don’t reflect every wavelength at the same intensity or angle. In fact, nothing that I’m aware of does, and this leaves signatures in the light that gets to us which we use to identify stuff in science all the time (spectroscopy!) Here’s a graph of one example of how complex the effect is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_absorption_by_water . And that’s just WATER.

5. So we have both angle and intensity differences. AND THEN POLARIZATION when a space beam bounces off or goes through something. That also depends a lot on wavelength.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_dichroism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_dichroism

Now here’s the key idea: circular polarization, a property of light, flips every time a ray of light is reflected off of a surface. If a ray of light goes in a triangle inside a circle (a good approximation for the 2d shape of the zodiacal cloud), as it continues to bounce, this property will cancel out.

See this chart, assuming the light starts with a slight preference for right-handedness when it leaves a planet:

Bounce number | Handedness | Vertex on triangle | Vertex on square

0 R A A

1 L B B

2 R C C

3 L A D

4 R B A

5 L C B

6 R A C

7 L B D

8 R C A

9 L A B

10 R B C

11 L C D

12 R A A

Now let’s count the number of right- and left-handed photons that hit each vertex of the triangle and the square configuration. These are known as 3-periodics and 4-periodics (and in general, N-periodics) in Dan Reznik’s work.

Triangle

A: R, L, R, L, R…

Square: A: R, R, R, R…

So the triangular configuration reduces, if not entirely counters, the degree of circular polarization in any direction, while the square configuration maintains it.

Now, as far as I’m aware (and this is the weakest part so far), the fact that a medium exhibits circular dichroism (different transmission of right- and left-handed light) means that it also will absorb the two types slightly differently, which could have a tiny but extant effect on molecules. For an example of how (different, but somewhat related) handedness can effect real life in unexpectedly large ways, note that the predicted effect of chirality-induced spin selectivity is an order of magnitude smaller than what is observed in experiment.

6.We haven’t been able to work with (or even sense) light very well until the last decade or so, so there is an enormous amount of the spectrum of light that has not been searched for astrological mechanisms.And keep in mind, especially for something that is this sensitive, there are other factors - factors which, incidentally, have been, at least in part observed by astrologers over centuries of observations. Take, for example this day/night Arabic Parts flowchart from @pwatsonastro is just BEGGING to be turned into a publishable paper.

https://twitter.com/pwatsonastro/status/1108767161089056768

The chart reminded me of optics classes I took at @UofR, the top school for optics in the country, where I was exposed to cutting-edge optics research, and also looked at used guitar strings under an electron microscope.

Then consider, in medieval astrology, the concept of cazimi - where a planet’s effect is magnified when it is behind the sun, but only at the absolute middle. There as a resemblance between that and the arago spot, a phenomenon in optics.A closer look at this, taking into account how zone plates work, might be able to use astrological traditions to reverse-engineer a wavelength of interest.

. That’s why I got my ham radio license – and you should too. Ham radio will teach you, for instance, that different wavelengths of light reflect off of our atmosphere differently when it’s dark out - sometimes staying in or out, and sometimes creating cool channels that ham radio people use to talk across long distances.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionosphere#Layers_of_ionization

In short, I believe there is sufficient overlap between astrology and optics to merit further theoretical, as well as active investigation. These active investigations could look like the following:

Determining if there is a difference in outcomes from charts with, for instance, mars at a latitude beyond the maximal obliquity of the ecliptic. If the difference can be quantified, see if this results in a distribution similar to the distribution of zodiacal dust at varying latitudes. See below: as the plane moves, the amount of the donut it goes through will change.

-There is some evidence to indicate that astrology’s mechanism is light somewhere in the infrared range. A fully isolated and shielded habitat for a number of hamsters or other lab animals is set up, with cameras noting the birth time of each. An identical habitat is created outside, with minimal or no roof. Any correlations between actions of the animals and astrological effects are measured. Note that this will likely be small, on the order of a 5% difference or less, but I expect it to be extant.

If astrology’s mechanism is light somewhere in the infrared range, the COSMOS Planck mission’s data could be explored for relevant signatures. If astrology-adjacent effects are discovered, then perhaps they affect the ambient light in the sky. If these effects are predictable, then this research may lead to improvements in Solar System foreground correction programs, some of which are listed at this NASA link.

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