I am looking forward to reading this book to see how exactly he approaches his claims, and how he establishes the correlations. I watched a video of the author talking about the relationship of the numerical values of the Hebrew planet names and their circumference on a log scale, which has been so far the most intriguing connection for me, since it seems to apply to all of them, not a selection. But I also saw that it does not seem to be a straight relation, he does factor another parameter into the equation, I need to read his explanation on this.
Regarding the examples of the hand bones and similar, I also wondered how many *other* numbers there are related to the hand. I mean, if 14 was the only that makes sense, that would be a coincidence indeed, but if there are a variety to choose from it gets less impressive (in this specific example, and as backed up by what you wrote).
Still, I have to read the original book. Right now, it is just an interesting claim and I am intrigued to see the original statistical methods he applied and to see if it holds up to scientific standards or would indeed be cherry picking (I hope for the former, but facts are facts). The planet claim and the color claim should be helpful in assessing that, either the correlation apply to all (without much number bending), then he has a case, or they apply to only a subset or with some parameter magic, then I'm not so convinced. Either way, thank you for that recommendation! Feels like a detective case.
Edit: it also opened the question for me how languages and later, letters, did evolve in the first place and how values came into the game. If the connection of letters and values is meaningful, were there values before written language was invented somehow inherently attached to the syllables and phonemes? Did the written letters only continue that tradition or was it more like "ah we need to note down things we count somehow, too, well let's just use the letters we just invented for that, too, and assign values"?
Regarding the examples of the hand bones and similar, I also wondered how many *other* numbers there are related to the hand. I mean, if 14 was the only that makes sense, that would be a coincidence indeed, but if there are a variety to choose from it gets less impressive (in this specific example, and as backed up by what you wrote).
Still, I have to read the original book. Right now, it is just an interesting claim and I am intrigued to see the original statistical methods he applied and to see if it holds up to scientific standards or would indeed be cherry picking (I hope for the former, but facts are facts). The planet claim and the color claim should be helpful in assessing that, either the correlation apply to all (without much number bending), then he has a case, or they apply to only a subset or with some parameter magic, then I'm not so convinced. Either way, thank you for that recommendation! Feels like a detective case.
Edit: it also opened the question for me how languages and later, letters, did evolve in the first place and how values came into the game. If the connection of letters and values is meaningful, were there values before written language was invented somehow inherently attached to the syllables and phonemes? Did the written letters only continue that tradition or was it more like "ah we need to note down things we count somehow, too, well let's just use the letters we just invented for that, too, and assign values"?