England's crop circle controversy - BBC
In 1996, a crop circle appeared opposite Stonehenge depicting a mathematical fractal called a Julia set; a similar formation that emerged on Milk Hill in 2001 was one of the largest ever, stretching 900ft.
'Beautiful Math Equation' Found in Crop Circle | Live …
Jun 8, 2010 · Crop circle designs containing fractal patterns (such as the Mandelbrot set) have been created for many years. There are many theories …
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The Mystery of the Crop Circles: An Age Old Debate
Jul 20, 2015 · Unlike ancient geoglyphs such as the Nazca Lines in Peru, crop circles are an ongoing phenomenon in that they are continuously and increasingly appearing with the average rising by the end of each harvest. And …
Crop circle - Wikipedia
The scientific consensus on crop circles is that they are constructed by human beings as hoaxes, advertising, or art. The most widely known method for a person or group to construct a crop formation is to tie one end of a rope to an anchor point and the other end to a board which is used to crush the plants. It is also possible to bend grass without breaking it, if it has recently rained—a met…
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This ‘crop circle’ was sculpted from countless stalks that were bent and oriented in ingenious ways. Bewildering the British since the 1600s, the crop-circle phenomenon has spread to …
hypermaths.org - Chapter 8
Place a heptagon onto the circumference of a circle divided into 14, so that it takes up one-seventh of that perimeter, as shown. Notice how it thereby becomes divided into a 3:4 ratio, with 3 of its sectors inside the parent circle.
Unveiling the Secrets: Mathematical and Geometric Concepts in …
Crop circles have intrigued and puzzled observers for decades. These formations often display an extraordinary degree of mathematical and geometric sophistication that goes beyond …
Creating Crop Circles With Lasers and Microwaves
Aug 25, 2011 · Roughly 100 crop circles appear in the UK every summer, according to circlemakers. Taylor has a few ideas about how they’re done, which are outlined in an article in the research magazine Physics World. We talked …
The Fractal Field | Michael Glickman on Crop Circles
I have drawn the formations every year since 1990 but this year, for the first time, I felt impelled, almost instructed, to draw every crop circle as soon as it appeared. This has never happened …
Revisiting the ‘Stonehenge Surprise’: The ‘Best Case’ …
The circumstances surrounding its appearance are, at first glance, straightforward and impressive enough: A pilot flew over the field opposite Stonehenge late one afternoon and saw a normal, undisturbed field below; on his return flight less …