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THE CONSTANT OF NINEVEH
seem so difficult any more. If the number of Nineveh really was
the Great Constant of the solar system, it had to be an exact multiple
of any revolution or conjunction period of any planet,
comet, or satellite of the solar system. It took some time to do
this work and lots of numbers, but, just as I had thought and expected,
every period of revolution or conjunction of all the solar
system bodies calculated by the Constant of Nineveh corresponded
exactly down to several decimal points with the values
given in the modem tables of United States astronomers and
nearly so with the French tables which give slightly different
numbers for the planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
I have not been able to find even a single period of revolution
or conjunction of a solar system planet or satellite that would not
be an exact fraction down to the fourth decimal point of the
Great Constant of the Solar System. For me that is
proof that the Nineveh Constant is
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a sufficient
a true solar constant and has
full validity today as it had when it was calculated many thousands
of years ago.
However, there is the one case where a slight discrepancy
shows up at the sixth decimal place if the Nineveh Constant of
2,268 million days is divided into tropical years. The difiFerence
equals twelve millionths of a day per year, so slight that it took
me quite a while to discover it, but it does not detract a thing
from the full validity of the Nineveh number. Just the opposite—
this discrepancy gives us a marvelous opportimity to calculate
exactly when the Nineveh constant was created. Modem astronomers
and their cesium atomic clocks have told us that because of
an infinitesimal slowing down of the earth's rotation, the tropical
year is getting shorter by sixteen milHonths of a second per year.
This helped me to calculate the true age of the Nineveh Constant
and led to the discovery that the Great Solar System Constant
accidentally found in the ruins of the royal library of King
Assurbanipal had to be given to humanity 64,800 years ago, give
or take a few years. Effectively, the discrepancy of 1.0368 seconds
divided by the annual decrease of the tropical year of
0.000016 seconds gives us the cmcial number of 64,800, the tme
age of the Nineveh Constant.
In the light of this
discovery, the distant past of 27,000 years
ago, when Cro-Magnon man painted the caves of Lascaux in