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Havona World Count Theory
A UBRON Message by Mark Underwood
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 14:09:09 -0700

A Perfector of Wisdom relates in paper 14.1:

The billion worlds of Havona are arranged in seven concentric circuits immediately surrounding the three circuits of Paradise satellites. There are upwards of thirty-five million worlds in the innermost Havona circuit and over two hundred and forty-five million in the outermost, with proportionate numbers intervening.

Before sharing my favourite formula thus far, I want to bring some points to the fore which might make it easier to believe that this is *the* formula. (hehe!)

First, consider the figures given: "thirty-five million" and "two hundred and forty-five million". Both of these figures clearly are rounded off, with the actual numbers somewhat higher. But want kind of rounding was done? There are two possibilities, assuming consistent rounding. One is that the numbers are rounded off to the nearest million, in which case the actual count for the first circuit is between 35 and 35.5 million, and the seventh circuit between 245 and 245.5 million. The other possibility is that the figures were rounded off to the nearest *five* million. In that case, the actual count is between 35 and 37.5 million, and 245 and 247.5 million. This latter type of rounding will come in handy :)

Secondly, consider the figures again: "thirty-five million" and two hundred and forty-five million". Why did the revelators only reserve the significant digits for the millions and not say, the thousands? Brevity might have been a reason. But perhaps primarily it was because no further significant figures were required. In other words, if the world counts for each circuit did happen to be multiples of a million, there would simply be no need to give significant digits in the thousands. It could, indeed, be a clue.

Thirdly, consider the phrase "with proportionate numbers intervening". This has been the stickler, and a big reason why I haven't been overly thrilled with my formulas thus far. Although they were close to yielding proportionate numbers, they yielded figures slightly off the straight line. They were slightly curved. And I had thought such was unavoidable, since it is a mathematical fact that 7 evenly (proportionately) spaced numbers cannot add up to a number like one billion, which has no factors of seven.

How to get around this? What if there was not one simple linear (proportionate) line, but a simple linear oscillation around a straight (proportional) line? As will be seen, it would still be true that there were "proportionate numbers intervening".

And so with that primer, the formula:

10⁶ x (35n + (-1)^n + 3)

This yields the number of worlds for circuits n = 1 to 7:

Seven things to notice:

-how both the 37 and 247 million figures fall within the rounding parameters.

-that all the world numbers are (obviously) multiples of one million, 10^6, a number you have to love.

-how the world count difference between successive circuits oscillates : 37, 33, 37, 33, 37, 33 (millions).

-that odd numbered circuits are two million more than 35 million times their circuit number, while the even numbered circuits are four million more than 35 times their circuit number. Two dimensional proportionality! :o

-how the count difference between every other circuit is exactly 70 million, another number you have to love.

-that the very middle (4th) circuit has a world count of 144 million, or 12² million, yet another number you have to love!

-how the other even circuits (2nd and 6th), have world counts (74 and 214 million) which are exactly two times the world counts of their 'half' circuit counterparts (1st and 3rd), with 37 and 107 million worlds.

Brought to you by your reluctant resident numerologist,

Mark

Mark Underwood
UBRON

Editor's Note
   
When deciding whether a Havona world count theory aligns with reality, this passage should be understood:

Havona Centers

Before the creation of the universes of time and space, power centers were not required in Havona, but ever since these far-distant times, one million have functioned in the central creation, each center having the supervision of a thousand Havona worlds.  Here in the divine universe there is perfection of energy control, a condition not existing elsewhere. Perfection of energy regulation is the ultimate goal of all the power centers and the physical controllers of space.

Paper 29  Section 2   The Supreme Power Centers