A scientist tripped up by mysticism: Newton once "calculated" the end of the world — a report from two months earlier, I just really want to know: even a great scientific giant can make a "great mistake"—is it pitiable, or lamentable?
A Newton manuscript that had never before been known to or studied by the world was recently discovered by researchers in a museum in Jerusalem. What is surprising is that this manuscript did not study scientific questions about the universe, gravity, and the like at all, but rather the "Bible Code" and illusory theology. Even more sensationally, in this secret manuscript, this greatest of British scientists actually set the end of the world at the year 2060! The discovery of Newton's "prophecy" manuscript has triggered a new round of "Newton fever" in Britain.
In 2060, plague and war will destroy the world
According to reports, Isaac Newton was the most outstanding representative among modern scientists, honored as the "father of modern science." Yet this scientific genius, who supposedly realized gravity after being hit on the head by an apple, actually spent all the precious time of the second half of his life on theology, researching the so-called "Bible Code." However, because most of Newton's theological manuscripts were bought at an auction in the 1930s by a mysterious collector named Abraham Yahuda, the whereabouts of those manuscripts later remained unknown to the world. As a result, later scientists had no way of knowing what Newton had actually calculated in those manuscripts with half a lifetime's effort. Only recently did researchers at the Hebrew National Museum in Jerusalem discover these dust-covered Newton manuscripts in the collection. On thousands of densely written pages, researchers saw Newton trying to use complicated formulas to decipher the so-called "Bible Code," and attempting to calculate the time of the universe's "end."
What left the researchers dumbfounded was that this rigorous scientist, at the end of those complicated and tedious calculations, actually set the end of the world at 2060 on a sheet of paper covered in scrawled handwriting! In the manuscript, Newton predicted that the arrival of the end of the world would be accompanied by outbreaks of plague and war, and also predicted that saints would return to Earth at that time, and that he himself might become one of them. From this, researchers concluded that Newton's obsession with theology in his later years had obviously become "terminal."
4,500 pages of theological manuscripts written over 50 years
As the "astonishing contents" of Newton's manuscript were disclosed, a documentary by a Canadian scholar studying Newton's life, Newton: The Dark Heretic, was also set to be broadcast in Britain, where another wave of "Newton fever" has arisen.
The film's director, Neom, said in an interview: "We wanted to understand what Newton was really like as a theologian—he spent about 50 years writing 4,500 pages of research manuscripts, trying to predict when the end of the world would come. But up to now, we do not know whether he really wrote down such a final number. I think for Newton of that era, this was something impossible to do. Even if he really did calculate some number, that number is not reliable."
Is this end-of-the-world number a "great mistake"?
More than 270 years after Newton's death, an Israeli mathematician, Eliyahu Rips, and a physicist, Doron Witztum, used a computerized mathematical program to study the Bible, and soon published a paper titled "Equidistant Letter Sequence Decoding in Genesis," claiming that they had discovered the real "Bible Code" using computers. According to them, by selecting letters from the Bible through certain skip sequences and then recombining them into new words, they actually pieced together terms such as "Hitler," "Holocaust"; "Picasso," "artist"; "Einstein," "supremely intelligent person," and said they had also found prophecies such as "Rabin assassinated." After this paper was published, it sparked controversy among scholars worldwide. Many researchers, including Professor Harold Gans, a former U.S. Department of Defense codebreaking expert, questioned it. Scholars opposing the theory believe that the original Biblical text studied by Eliyahu Rips already differs in certain ways from ancient manuscripts, including punctuation and letter spacing. The so-called "Bible Code" calculated by Rips with a computer is nothing more than quote-mining and pure luck. The entire Hebrew Bible contains more than 300,000 letters, allowing at least 10 billion possible combinations. If one arbitrarily breaks up the letters according to one's own wishes, one would surely find many more bizarre things. If one day "Bible Code" researchers were to find prophecies in the Bible such as the death of Diana or the release of WINDOWS2000, they would not be surprised in the least.
As this manuscript in which Newton predicted the time of the "end of the world" has once again seen the light of day in a Jerusalem museum, some experts believe that if there is no code in the Bible at all, then this "end-of-the-world number" Newton researched with the effort of his whole life is nothing more than a sensational "great mistake."
A Newton manuscript that had never before been known to or studied by the world was recently discovered by researchers in a museum in Jerusalem. What is surprising is that this manuscript did not study scientific questions about the universe, gravity, and the like at all, but rather the "Bible Code" and illusory theology. Even more sensationally, in this secret manuscript, this greatest of British scientists actually set the end of the world at the year 2060! The discovery of Newton's "prophecy" manuscript has triggered a new round of "Newton fever" in Britain.
In 2060, plague and war will destroy the world
According to reports, Isaac Newton was the most outstanding representative among modern scientists, honored as the "father of modern science." Yet this scientific genius, who supposedly realized gravity after being hit on the head by an apple, actually spent all the precious time of the second half of his life on theology, researching the so-called "Bible Code." However, because most of Newton's theological manuscripts were bought at an auction in the 1930s by a mysterious collector named Abraham Yahuda, the whereabouts of those manuscripts later remained unknown to the world. As a result, later scientists had no way of knowing what Newton had actually calculated in those manuscripts with half a lifetime's effort. Only recently did researchers at the Hebrew National Museum in Jerusalem discover these dust-covered Newton manuscripts in the collection. On thousands of densely written pages, researchers saw Newton trying to use complicated formulas to decipher the so-called "Bible Code," and attempting to calculate the time of the universe's "end."
What left the researchers dumbfounded was that this rigorous scientist, at the end of those complicated and tedious calculations, actually set the end of the world at 2060 on a sheet of paper covered in scrawled handwriting! In the manuscript, Newton predicted that the arrival of the end of the world would be accompanied by outbreaks of plague and war, and also predicted that saints would return to Earth at that time, and that he himself might become one of them. From this, researchers concluded that Newton's obsession with theology in his later years had obviously become "terminal."
4,500 pages of theological manuscripts written over 50 years
As the "astonishing contents" of Newton's manuscript were disclosed, a documentary by a Canadian scholar studying Newton's life, Newton: The Dark Heretic, was also set to be broadcast in Britain, where another wave of "Newton fever" has arisen.
The film's director, Neom, said in an interview: "We wanted to understand what Newton was really like as a theologian—he spent about 50 years writing 4,500 pages of research manuscripts, trying to predict when the end of the world would come. But up to now, we do not know whether he really wrote down such a final number. I think for Newton of that era, this was something impossible to do. Even if he really did calculate some number, that number is not reliable."
Is this end-of-the-world number a "great mistake"?
More than 270 years after Newton's death, an Israeli mathematician, Eliyahu Rips, and a physicist, Doron Witztum, used a computerized mathematical program to study the Bible, and soon published a paper titled "Equidistant Letter Sequence Decoding in Genesis," claiming that they had discovered the real "Bible Code" using computers. According to them, by selecting letters from the Bible through certain skip sequences and then recombining them into new words, they actually pieced together terms such as "Hitler," "Holocaust"; "Picasso," "artist"; "Einstein," "supremely intelligent person," and said they had also found prophecies such as "Rabin assassinated." After this paper was published, it sparked controversy among scholars worldwide. Many researchers, including Professor Harold Gans, a former U.S. Department of Defense codebreaking expert, questioned it. Scholars opposing the theory believe that the original Biblical text studied by Eliyahu Rips already differs in certain ways from ancient manuscripts, including punctuation and letter spacing. The so-called "Bible Code" calculated by Rips with a computer is nothing more than quote-mining and pure luck. The entire Hebrew Bible contains more than 300,000 letters, allowing at least 10 billion possible combinations. If one arbitrarily breaks up the letters according to one's own wishes, one would surely find many more bizarre things. If one day "Bible Code" researchers were to find prophecies in the Bible such as the death of Diana or the release of WINDOWS2000, they would not be surprised in the least.
As this manuscript in which Newton predicted the time of the "end of the world" has once again seen the light of day in a Jerusalem museum, some experts believe that if there is no code in the Bible at all, then this "end-of-the-world number" Newton researched with the effort of his whole life is nothing more than a sensational "great mistake."
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