"Robert Gordon's 7 days"

Let’s start with some data regarding Bobbie’s “7 days” in Tunnel Thru the Air:

So, we take the 'as the crow flies' miles in the trip of 33,298 miles and divide by that portion of miles which were east to west or 20,016 miles and we get 1.664.  Nice number 1.66.  Back to TTTA and the latter stage of the trip:

100 / 60 = 1.66

Perhaps two sides of a square at 33,298 crow miles and 20,016 X 1.666 = 33,347 miles?  Coincidence?

So, if we have a square, where’s Pythagorus' hypotenuse?  Don't worry, it is 'out there' to the fourth decimal of the sqrt(2).  Okay, what you're looking for is 1.414 X 33,298 and it can be derived from the above.

If you get all this, all that will remain, I think, is figuring out the dynamics of how that 7-day (err 8-day?) hypotenuse “vibrates”.....another story in itself I think.  Now how many notes in Pythagorus' diatonic octave and how many intervals between notes?

One great big divine stock market plan that, perhaps, William Delbert Gann unraveled.

Jim

As an aside 1, you can get to a similar side of the square using the total hours of Bobbie's trip which was 8 days in terms of miles, not 7 plus 5 hours to noon on the supposed 7th day.  (168 plus 24 hours plus 5 hours) X 60 minutes per hour X 1.666 = 19,699 or pretty close to the 20,016 miles.  And multiplying by 1.666 again and you get 32,832, darn close to the 'crow flies' miles of the total trip.  And also notice how one week's time is 192 hours, not 168.  As the earth 0* longitude passes a fixed point 7 times in a week, the market, perhaps, moves east once in a week’s time....just as Bobbie did.  Oh, you're not sure it was the equivalent of 8 days (plus 5 hours)?  Consider the page number Robert commenced his trip and the page number on which it ended?

As an aside 2, Bobbie circumnavigated the sphere, leaving from New York to the east on the 21^st at 7am and returning from the west “7 days” later at about noon.  But the table calculates 20,016 east west miles….  Hmmm….the globe is 24,901 miles.  At the equator.  Bobbie’s erratic route, no doubt, took advantage of the shorter distances at other latitudes.

As an aside 3, kinda neat how the North South miles net to zero.  [If you don't understand, consider it an accountant's thing.]