Code to Extinction by Christopher Cartwright

Author:Christopher Cartwright [Cartwright, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashton Publishing Group
Published: 2017-12-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Sam stepped into the main computer labs on board the Maria Helena. Billie and Elise were staring at the projection wall, where a series of maritime and bathymetric maps depicting the water around Big Island, Hawaii were displayed.

Elise acknowledge his presence with a curt nod, but her eyes remained fixed on the projection.

Billie looked up, and met his eye. “I hear you had an eventful day at the Great Blue Hole?”

“Yeah, you could say something like that. But I lost my attacker, which means we’re back to square one regarding who knows the truth about the Göbekli Tepe Death Stone.” Sam looked at the map of the stone tablet superimposed on the maritime maps. “Tell me you found something on your end.”

“I’ve found plenty of things. This seemingly simple stone is riddled with puzzles and mysteries. But very few answers. Every door I open leads to another three directions.”

“Did you find the locations of the missing temples?”

“No.”

Sam raised his eyebrow. “What have you found?”

“Where do you want me to start?”

Sam shrugged. “The beginning I suppose.”

“The tablet itself is smaller than an A4 piece of paper, with the following dimensions: 11.69 by 7.225 inches, making it a Golden Rectangle.”

Sam’s eyes narrowed. “A what?”

“A Golden Rectangle is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the Golden Ratio of Phi – which is sometimes referred to as the Divine Proportion, is 1.618 – followed by a whole bunch of numbers that only Elise would bother to remember.”

Sam glanced across at Elise.

She nodded and said, “You want them?”

“No thanks.” Then, to Billie he said, “In English, without the calculations, how is a Golden Rectangle any different from every other four-sided shape with straight sides where all interior angles are at ninety degrees?”

Billie smiled as though she was enjoying this. It wasn’t very often she was in a position to teach Sam Reilly something, and she was going to make him pay for it.

She drew a simple square. “Here’s a standard square.”

Sam nodded, but remained silent. He asked the question, now he was going to have to listen to the answer.

Billie drew a line from the midpoint of one side of the square to an opposite corner, and then used that line as the radius to draw an arc that defined the total height of the rectangle. She increased the length of the original square to meet the tip of the arc, thus making a rectangle. Billie smiled triumphantly. “That’s a Golden Rectangle.”

“Really?” Sam wasn’t impressed.

“A distinctive feature of this shape is that when a square section is removed, the remainder is another golden rectangle. That is, with the same aspect ratio as the first. Square removal can be repeated infinitely, in which case corresponding corners of the squares form an infinite sequence of points on the golden spiral, the unique logarithmic spiral with this property.”

He watched the imaginary sequence unfold. It was interesting, but he wasn’t convinced the Master Builders considered it when they’d built the map. He eyes fixed on the real stone tablet.

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