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Part1-ANCIENT CHINESE SCIENCE OF THE CHINESE I CHING
Introduction By Eleanor B. Morris WU

I was introduced to Chinese scholars of the I Ching in the early '70's when I traveled to Taiwan with my husband. These Chinese scholars were looking for a Westerner, conversant in mathematics and languages,to help explain the profundity of this ancient holy book to the West, and most of all decode the ancient language of the I Ching. While I Ching was really onsidered a moral and religious book in the East, scholars there , after contact with the West in the 18th and 19th centuries brought exposure to Western science and mathematics, believed the science and mathematics hidden in the I Ching might be on a par with Western science and mathematics or even superior to it. Science in China had existed since history had been recorded in China, going back to the Shang dynasty more than 4000 years ago.

Chinese had their own highly developed sciences of medicine and had developed the medical adjunct science of acupuncture, widely believed to be based on the hexagrams of the I Ching. The Chinese also had a highly developed pharmacology, and highly developed plant, flower and tree phylas. For mathematical calculations they used the abacus, a physical instrument, still used in Chinese shops or banks even after the introduction of the computer.

While it could be argued that before scientific and mathematical development in the West starting in the 18th and 19th centuries, China was the most scientifically developed nation on earth. All their sciences were based on Chinese I Ching yet no Chinese alive, nor any text from the huge store of Chinese works in recorded history, could explain the I Ching in any rational or methodical manner.

Thus all the Chinese sciences were rudely dismissed by Westerners, although these sciences are still used by all Chinese even today, extensively and with strong protestations of faith, as passionate for their sciences as the old religious Jew with his Torah. With the introduction of Western sciences and math, however, and the rude dismissal of their own science and math by Westerners, the Chinese suffered a severe scar in their souls, a kind of disassociation and a collective depression.

The debunking of the Chinese sciences and math were confounded by the fact that despite an intense search of all documents in the Chinese canon by both Chinese and Western scholars in the 19th and 20th centuries there was no evidence that any Chinese, going back to the Shang dynasty 4000 years ago, had ever been able to explain the I Ching rationally or that the language of the I Ching had ever been decoded in any rational manner that would give the I Ching the credentials of being a true scientific work, rather than a work of superstition and fortune telling.

I continued to work on I Ching through the '70's, publishing two books, one on I Ching and astronomy and one on I Ching and biochemistry, but neither of these books took me or my readers nearer to validating the I Ching as a book of science or understanding the language of the I Ching in any scientific way. By the '80's I had become so frustrated that I thought seriously of giving up the task when one of my Chinese scholar friends in Taiwan contacted my husband, He told my husband I should go to Paris to see the great Claude Levi-Strauss, an Anthropologist with one of the greatest minds of his generation and considered one of the most eminent scholars in any field in France or elsewhere in the world at that time. My Chinese scholar friend told my husband that Levi-Strauss was very interested in the I Ching and might be able to help me in my task of scientifically interpreting it.

I wrote to Levi-Strauss, explained to him my problem, and he answered graciously he would be willing to see me next time I was in Paris. As a graduate student in Social Anthropology I had read all of Levi-Strauss’s work and had been totally awed by his depth of learning and astounding imagination, able to tie together early Indian myths from the whole of the Americas, together with the social organization and village layout of the Indians of the Mateo Grosso he had studied in Brazil in the '40's , into a kind of proto language that theoretically coild have explained the behaviour of all primitive people. Also his intriguing theory of 'bricolage', in which primitive societies live in the shadow of a more sophisticated society, and which no longer know what the vestiges of the society they practice meant, a situation he believed to have existed among the Indians of Matteo Grosso he studied in the ‘40’s, with sophisticated marriage rules and geometric village layouts, the rational for which they were totally unaware of.

When I got to France, Professor Levi-Strauss, of the College de France and d'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, received me graciously in his academic office quarters and I spent the afternoon with him, and coming back to France several years later, I spent more time with him again.

Professor Levi-Strauss told me he believed the I Ching was a relic of a vast civilization, so old that all record of it had long been lost or destroyed. This civilization was like the lost Atlantas of Western legend. This civilization would not have been a primitive one; on the contrary it would have been highly advanced, highly technological, likely even more advanced that Western civilization today. The Chinese of recorded history—and of modern history and today--were direct descendants of the I Ching civilization, and although other peoples and races alive today might also have ben descendants of I Ching civilization, only the Chinese still possessed vestiges of that civilization, such as in medicine, pharmacology, plant and tree phyla, abacus etc--and of course the I Ching.

Of course the Chinese did not understand these vestiges, did not understand what they meant in the larger picture--therefore they were a 'bricolage' culture, a term he had used to describe the primitive Indians of Matteo Grosso, who in spite of their primitiveness, possessed the proto language of social organization, marriage rules and geometric housing arrangement, which they no longer understood nor had any idea of how or of why it was derived.

Same he said for the Chinese of recorded history and especially the Chinese of today. It was critically important he said for me to decode the language of the I Ching, a language which in its revealed rationality would confirm the validity of this lost civilization along with its undoubted scientific and technological treasures, as well as how it was destroyed and how and why it was created in the first place.

Still among the Chinese bits and pieces of the critical information that had not been made public still existed so I must stay among the Chinese as long as possible to unravel this mystery. Globalization had already begun to happen in China and soon all evidence that still existed among the Chinese would be lost. I promised him to do my best.

(When I finally succeeded in decoding the language of the I Ching in 2012, I rushed to the phone only to learn that he had already passed away in 2009. Of course I was devastated. Au revoir, cher Professeur, mon mentor!)

In 1989 my beloved husband of many years died. I decided to take up a full time teaching job in Taiwan where, among Chinese in a strictly Chinese environment I could continue to try to break the I Ching code. Since my son was in 11th grade soon ready to go to college in the States, I left him in his Canadian Boarding school, living with his high school classmate across the street from the school. He would come to visit me on every holiday he had .As the years passed, I learned many new things about the I Ching; it was being taught in Chinese public schools in both Taiwan and the mainland as both a math and science textbook as well as a textbook of Confucian morals and as a religious text book celebrating Confucianism and family values and filial piety. While I Ching was being taught as a math and science textbook, it was not being taught as science and math are taught in the west, with rigorous formulas and proofs, and with numerical and algebraic solutions Instead it was being taught as symbolic math and science with selected Chinese characters as icons or glyphs representing various data. Of course along with studying Chinese math and science in I Ching textbooks, students were all provided with textbooks teaching math and science in the normal American way so that they could continue to excel in international science and math competitions around the world and continue to be accepted by Universities in Taiwan, other parts of Asia or the US, Canada or Australia where they would usually all major in math or science or business.

One day in 2012 I fell in my bathroom, broke my right hip and was rushed to the local hospital for immediate surgery. A few weeks later lying in my bed at home, suffering in agony from the pain of the operation and still dizzy from the powerful anesthesia, the beginning of a year and a half year recuperation, I had a near death experience and I saw the entire I Ching matrix plastered on the pale yellow walls of my bedroom, while a dull but booming voice seemed to sound out from the walls themselves: 'it's the third line! it's the third line! line of change! agency of change,! the hypotenuse of the right angle triangle of Euclid! the pi of Galileo's circular planetary orbits!, the synthesis of the thesis antithesis of the Greek sophists!’.

It was as if the mathematical canons of all the world's great ancient and medieval cultures cascaded together and I had gotten the key to the language of I Ching. Broken and unbroken lines, signifying yin and yang (female and male), in groups of threes in all possible combinations and permutations or 2 to the power of 6, comprised the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching. While broken and unbroken lines signified the binary system, 1 or 0, this was no simple binary system. The very nature of the opposition, yin and yang was no mere numerical one, it was the opposition of male and female, sexual genders or ‘chirality’ as it had been seen in biology and physics by Western scientists--but which Western mathematics was still at a loss to deal with. And the groups of three? Horizontal line with perpendicular line with hyptonuse that could only be solved with irrational numbers, or the pi, the constant that had been found in the time of the Greeks, the means by which a circle and all curved lines and spaces could be produced, was that the meaning of the third line of the Chinese triagrams (unit of three broken/unbroken or yin/yang lines) where two triagrams made up each Chinese hexagram (unit of the I Ching composed of 6 broken and unbroken lines or yin/yang lines in all permutations and combinations—see I Ching matrix inside page 1)? Indeed it seemed to be so.

And the chirality of yin and yang the necessity of both sex genders placed side by side, as in the King and Queen of the ancient Persian chessboard, a difference in quality rather than quantity but in a difference that was also in some way measurable? On the chessboard the difference was measured in terms of power rather than quantity, would that be the measure of difference between yin and yang in the I Ching as well?

In a binary system, x and y could stand for any numerical value, the values were absolutely interchangeable, one for one. How about the system of electrical charges + and - in the electromagnetic system? They too could be interchanged at will as a plus charge, if it were struck by another negative, would become negative, while the negative charge could become positive if were struck by another negative.

What about the proton and the electron in the atomic nucleus, were they also interchangeable like the + and minus electrical charges/? Absolutely not, never found in nature. What about the neutron and proton of the atomic nucleus, were they casually interchangeable like the + and minus electrical charges/? Absolutely not. The proton and the number of them thereof identified the specific chemical element of that atom while the neutron, itself composed of one electron and one proton resulting in an neutral charge in the atomic nucleus, and the number thereof identified the atomic weight of the atom, where again the number of protons alone in the atomic nucleus identified the identity of chemical element itself.

It can thus be seen that the higher and higher we go up the scale of complexity, from number to electrical charge, from electrical charge to proton charge to neutron weight , the less useful numbers become and the more useful names or language becomes.

Similarly with yin and yang/ female and male, chirality in biology and physics. numbers cannot describe these entities, only names can.

But what about power, isn't it both a number and a name and could it not be used to describe these more complex entities where we can watch number slough into name and name slough back into number, breaking down what has been believed to be an unbreakable barrier between language and number. Power after all in and of itself is a relativistic measure, rather than any kind of fixed numerical measure.

For example if we take region to represent the yang triagram as we did in 'Geopolitical Algebra of the Chinese I Ching’ (see Chapter III) the power of that region would be measured by military, wealth, patriarchal governance etc. If we took an all yin triagram to represent region, the power of that region would be the exact opposite of the yang region, i.e. no military, no wealth, matriarchal governance etc. On the other hand if we still had a 3 unbroken line yang triagram where the third line changed from yang to yin, we could say the region was less powerful than the all yang triagram, i.e. less militaristic, less wealthy, less patriarchal. In fact if the third line of the all yang triagram changed from yang to yin, the meaning of the triagram might have an even greater import such as patriarchy overthrown, revolution against patriarchy or new patriarchal leader or birth of a son to the leader. It is evident that discernng the meaning in an entire hexagram is more difficult than discerning it merely in a triagram. In the section 'Geopolitical Algebra of the Chinese I Ching' all the probable changes in all the 64 hexagrams are worked out in a famous Chinese poem depicting regional conflict during the Warring State period in medieval China. Thus we have in the I Ching language a language which constantly sloughs off between number and word and which is above all a language of measured comparisons, a language based on relativism.

Would it be possible to use this language to explain changes not only in the soft sciences but also in the hard sciences? To do so first we might better consult other parts of the canon of ancient Chinese science, i.e., the famous five elements of Chinese science; water, earth, fire, metal and wood. It can be sen from the ancient Chinese charts in this chapter how the essential five elements have infinite corollaries or hosts of analogous synonyms in every field of reality imaginable, from medicine to astronomy. If we were to transpose this system to modern science, say physical science as that is our most basic science, hoping to extrapolate later into other hard sciences and then soft sciences, it would be necessary to locate first the five essential elements of modern physical science, and indeed if we could that we would be able to validate the authenticity of the ancient Chinese science.

It is difficult to find analogous synonyms for the Chinese five elements in the atom because all the elements of the atom are only parts of the whole atom, i.e. proton, electron, neutron, other bosons, even quarks, not whole entities in and of themselves. We have already seen from our aquaintence with the I Ching, that a whole element always takes precedence over parts of the element. Those whole yang and whole yin hexagrams are the masters/mistress of the entire I Ching grid. All other hexagrams in the grid are just 'partials' or even ‘derivatives' of these whole yang and whole yin hexagrams.

While in I Ching whole is actually something qualitatively and even quantitatively different from the sum of its parts, in Western science, starting with the Greek Democritus in 500 BC, parts of the whole rather than the whole itself are what is important. Even today this Western orientation of parts greater than the whole persists; indeed our whole canon of physics is called 'particle physics’ and modern physicists demand more and more money to build bigger and bigger smashing machines, i.e. colliders, to break the hapless atom into tinier and tinier parts, to what end becomes less and less unclear to the citizens who pay for these machines.

Thus if we are looking for a likely analogy to the ancient Chinese immutable five elements, we need to look at what we know now to be the most immutable molecule known to science, the DNA molecule comprised of four/five irreplaceable elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and the phosphorous element binding the oxygen/hydrogen sugars which feed the main C, O, H, N molecule. Can this molecule, signifying the four most important hexagrams, the whole yin and the whole yang and the other two crucial hexagrams, comprised of yang/yin/yang//yang/yin/yang lines and yin/yang/yin//yin/yang.yin lines. The phosphorous can perhaps be best represented as any all partial hexagrams, as phosphorus itself is a heavy metal and like all heavy metals inimical to life, except in very guarded doses as is its role in supporting the sugars that feed the DNA molecule. Now can the representation of the four/five main hexagrams by the immutable C, O,,H, N and P play out the kind of molecular drama played out by the hexagrams in the regional drama explained in Geopolitical Algebra of the Chinese I Ching? Indeed they can for the permutations and combinations of DNA in an infinite variety is the drama of life on this planet competing, expanding and exfoliating the DNA molecule produces the four nucleic acids in two yin varieties and two yang varieties which bind yin/yang and yang/yang nucleic acid types across a double helix which can hold up to 220,000.000 nucleic acid binds or bases coding and producing the life forms of every living thing on this planet, from bacteria to humans, elephants to simple garden variety weeds.

Furthermore, the five elements of the DNA molecule, C (Carbon), H (Hydrogen), N(Nitrogen), O (Oxygen), and P (Phosphorus) have a neat and unequivocal identity with the five immutable elements of ancient Chinese science, i. e., C=Wood; H=Fire;N=Earth; O=Water; P=Metal.

In terms of being the WHOLE or ORIGINAL element of essence, form, reality, being etc, DNA is the all important, sine qua non of all living things on this planet, from ordinary garden weeds, to primordial bacteria, to elephant, to man, it has never been synthesized in a chemist’s lab, despite repeated and arduous tries by ambitious scientists. It can only be found in all developed life forms on earth—or on asteroids from outer space landing on earth, where some scientists believe it was first brought to earth.

The kind of interchange between the almost infinite number of C, N,O, H,P which make up the DNA molecules, nucleic acids in all their tin/yang along the double helix strand so long it can hardly be located by the finest microscope let alone the human eye, could be mapped on a I Ching grid of the 64 hexagrams. In this remarkable event, the binary elements of the grid, the yin/yang exchange in its most elemental form, the faster than light exchange of electrons and electronic charge , between and among the more complex configuration of molecule and acid, would robustly challenge the most advanced computers known to man today.

As far as representing the five immutable elements of the ancient Chinese, C, O, N, H. P are critical not only to life forms on our planet but also to the very constituents of elements in our galaxies. Our sun, categorized as a Yellow Dwarf, type T sun, about four billion years old gains most of its heat from hydrogen proton to hydrogen proton collision but follows a Carbon/Nitrogen/Oxygen cycle for heat and radiation.

As modern Western powers begin their long and expensive search in our galaxy for suns who might have rocky planets with Oxygen atmosphere and water, most of the suns in our galaxy are red suns; yellow dwarfs are very few and few have even been located with our super strong telescopic arsenal. Our scientists are pinning their hopes for finding alien life in our galaxy on the multitudinous Red suns with possible multitudinous planets which populate our galaxy.

But Red suns , unlike yellow dwarfs, have cores of heavy metals mixed with hydrogen, and heat and radiate by convection rather than the Carbon cycle,C,N.O, of Yellow Dwarfs. Would this immutable elements unfriendly suns indicate poor chances of life on their planets? Since suns and their planets are formed of the same primordial gas clouds, it's possible that they would.

Yellow dwarf

ANCIENT CHINESE SCIENCE OF THE CHINESE I CHING Chapter II

Astronomical model of the Universe based on the Chinese I Ching by Eleanor B Morris Wu

Recent findings in distant Galaxies by our telescopes have revealed unsettling findings which call into doubt the entire standard models of Physics and Cosmology:

1. (Diagram of dark Matter) from google

2. (Diagram of Cosmic web) from the BBC SCIENCE PAGE JAN 20^th 2014

For some years, cosmologists have been using computer simulations to construct a “standard Model of Cosmology”. First, the cosmic microwave background that falls on all Planets and Galaxies in the Universe, they claim, is a remnant of the Big Bang and is recorded in instruments such as the Planck Space Observatory. Results show that as the Universe grows “matter becomes constructed in filaments and nodes under the force of gravity like a giant cosmic web”. Results from the ten-metre KECK telescope in Hawaii show this cosmic web (diagram). These results were monitored by scientists from the University of California, Santa cruz and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. The scientists believe that the cosmic web is made up of “dark matter”. It has been found through many telescope observations that Dark Matter bends light through a process of gravitational lensing. Einstein contended that Gravity could bend light. Quantum forces can also bend light. So we come back to some very basic questions. How can we understand gravity according to the I Ching? The Chinese I Ching is composed of a plain surface on which sixtyfour hexagrams are inserted. Our findings have shown that there are only two to four central hexagrams and all other hexagrams and trigrams are partial derivatives.

These central hexagrams can stand for any central principles in any given field of hard or soft science. The entire field of the I ching matrix is composed of reversals of these hexagrams which undoubtedly suggest that the whole matrix can be flipped over. In western cosmology, these kind of reversals suggest matter/antimatter and energy/antienergy which astronomers and scientists have been struggling with for many decades.

The cosmic web found by the KECK telescope is the dark matter and dark energy cosmologists have been searching for. But how can this be? The broken nodes and tiny tendrils of dark matter/energy stretching into space can not be dealt with by the standard model of physics which can only deal with straight lines and full curves of Galileon classical physics or modern quantum physics, Einstein’s General or Special Relativity.

But the KECK telescope photograph of ‘dark matter’ with its jagged tendrils and filaments, and plump glowing nucleus, resembles nothing so much as a live time photograph of a human brain neuron.

Similarly the ‘cosmic web’, far from resembling anything we know in the inorganic world, terrestrial or cosmological, resembles the jagged contours of human flesh in the shape of a hand, prepared or preparing for operation or early death, denuded of cosmetic flesh, raw to touch and feel.

But, again, how can this be? Is the universe organic and febril rather than inorganic and inert? If this were true, the Standard Models of both Physics and Cosmology would have to be seen as inadequate and inaccurate as the laws of Archimedes were beginning to be seen in the time of the Italian Rennasaince.

In trying to assimilate these kinds of astounding conundrums brought to our scientific world, potentially as disruptive to our scientific worldview as the observations of Galileo’s telescope were to the European scientists of the late Middle Ages, still steeped in the unproven and unproveable sciences and mathematics of the ancient Greeks.

The DNA molecule in which all the genetics information of every living thing on this planet is coded, is composed of 220 million molecules or double-base pairs on a double-helix, stretching for 46-50 nm in length and 2 nm wide.. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is composed of 220 million solar systems a hundred and twenty light years long and a hundred light years wide.

Light years long in a barred sphere with a long rod going through it with twoarms of stars on either side. Through the Milky Way, a doublehelix of stars has been founf.

The human brain, average size 3 pounds, contains 200,000,000 neurons. With a complex folding shape the human brain is structured with a right and left hemisphere divided by a large nerve complex or yin/yang dichotomy with right hemisphere controlling left side of body and left hemisphere controlling left side of the body and right side controling the left side, In polar opposition or a yin/yang relationship right and left hemispheres control opposite mental and motor function The cerebal cortex which controls most mental functions, like the Chinese model of five immutable elements, is composed of five lobes, each controlling different mental and organizational functions.

The brain itself is characterized by complex folding of elliptical/convex or concave shapes and hyperbolic concave and convexed shaped substructures. The elliptical/hyperbolic/concave/convex topologies of brain folds are third dimension exfoliates of double helices.

The phenomena of two dimensional double helices exfoliating into three three dimensional hyperbolic and elliptical shapes can be seen in the growth and development in all of nature, not just the organic world.

Protein, the chief product of microscopic two dimensional DNA as it transforms from its inorganic/organic state to the fully organic state of protein. Protein manifests its final forms through complex folding, folding being the way the final organ shapes of proteins are exfoliated. Even galaxies have been seen with complex foldings of their basic elliptical and double helix shapes.

The DNA molecule is also composed of arms on each side on the doublehelix, of ladders of sugars composed of Oxygen, Hydrogen and Phosphorus. DNA is composed of only five elements, Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Hydrogen and Phosphorous. In the environment of a living body, DNA will produce nucleic acids and proteins, the substance of all living things , The DNA molecule and its nucleic acids conform to the standard model of physics, being composed of straight lines and circles. The protein does not conform to this model. Up until now, there is no model of physics or mathematics that can describe protein or organic matter, neither Galilean mathematics, Quantum mathematics, special relativity nor general relativity.

Protein under the microscope looks exactly like the photographs of the cosmic web from the KECK telescope. Is there dark matter of the cosmos equivalent to the protein of the human body? Is the DNA doublehelix with phosphate sugars equivalent to the Milky Way galaxy simply on the basis of a system of analogous synonyms or corollations, synonyms or corollations that may be either word or number? How can this be? It defies all laws of science and reason as we have learned them in the west since the time of the Greeks.