session 020914 said:
A: Yes...Pyramid, Pyrenees, Pyr...
Q: (V) There must be something about the Pyr. How does Pyr relate to prime numbers? (A) Where is
pyramid, where are they coming from, where's the name coming from, what's this? Pyro, fire, no? (L) Yeah,
fire.
In the Cs transcripts we can notice the frequent occurence of words starting with PYR : Pyramid, Pyrenees, Pyrotechny. Those words have something in common : light (enlightnement, portals, alchemy...)
Amongst word starting with the PYR prefix there is also "pyrite".
What is Pyrite ?
wikipedia said:
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, is iron disulfide, FeS2. It has isometric crystals that usually appear as cubes. The cube faces may be striated (parallel lines on crystal surface or cleavage face) as a result of alternation of the cube and pyritohedron faces. Pyrite also frequently occurs as octahedral crystals and as pyritohedra (a dodecahedron with pentagonal faces). It has a slightly uneven and conchoidal fracture, a hardness of 6-6.5, and a specific gravity of 4.95-5.10. It is brittle, meaning it breaks or powders easily. Its metallic luster and pale-to-normal brass-yellow hue have earned it the nickname fool's gold, but ironically, small quantities of actual gold are sometimes found in pyrite. In fact, such auriferous pyrite is a valuable ore of gold.
Pyrite is the most common of the sulfide minerals. It is usually found associated with other sulfides or oxides in quartz veins, sedimentary rock and metamorphic rock, as well as in coal beds, and as the replacement mineral in fossils.
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Pyrites can show negative resistance and have experimentally been used in oscillator circuits as radio detectors .
The name pyrite is from the Greek word "Pyr" meaning "fire". This is likely due to the sparks that result when pyrite is struck against steel. This capacity made it popular for use in early firearms such as the wheellock.
In her historical fiction book The Valley of Horses, Jean Auel's heroine Ayla is described as inventing a new method of creating fire by striking a pyrite-like material against flint.
So pyrite shows some links with interesting entities :
* iron (magnetic component)
* disulfide (sulfur, one of the major alchemical component)
* the fool (tarot guest start, the one who goes for enlightment)
* gold (one of the results of the Philosopher's stone)
Later in the Transcript
Q: (V) There must be something about the Pyr. How does Pyr relate to prime numbers? (A) Where is
pyramid, where are they coming from, where's the name coming from, what's this? Pyro, fire, no? (L) Yeah,
fire.
A: Frequency of light...
Actually pyrite dysplays a really rare light property, although it is an isotropic mineral (same mechanical properties in all direction) , it is anomalously light anisotropic (different light properties according to the direction)
http://webmineral.com/help/RLAnisotrophism.shtml
And later in the Transcript
Q: (A) Sonoluminescence. But again there is this term frequency. I have areal problem with you guys using
the term frequency because frequency is number of oscillations per unit of time. But what is the unit of
time? A second, a minute, an hour, a year?
A: Can we say "nano?"
Pyrite light reflexion rate (% figures on the right) depends on the wavelength (figures on the left, in nanometers):
400 38.20
420 40.50
440 42.80
460 45.50
480 48.50
500 51.00
520 53.60
540 53.80
560 54.60
580 55.00
600 55.20
620 55.50
640 56.00
660 56.40
680 56.80
700 57.00
(50% reflexion rate is reached for a wavelength equal or higher than ~487 nanometers)
http://webmineral.com/data/Pyrite.shtml
