Hawkins's computer was too literal. But his instinct — that Stonehenge handled information — survives every test the sixty years since have thrown at it. An investigation through stone provenance, isotopes, ancient DNA and landscape archaeology, ending with a named, testable hypothesis: the Gathering Engine.
The ancient concept of celestial harmony has found unexpected resonance in modern quantum physics, creating a remarkable intellectual bridge spanning over two millennia of...
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I. Introduction: The Grinder of Glass and Gods
In the damp, salt-laden air of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, a revolution was...