Cycles: Events Repeat and not Sequential in Nature

 Cycles: Events Repeat and not Sequential in Nature

The New Year has come and a month has already gone. The weekend has come and even half of the week is gone.

Most of the time, we seemed to be looking at events and happenings in linear terms while they are actually cyclic.

Being earthlings, we measure distances in linear terms - miles, feet, kilometers, meters and so on while the earth on which we live is round rather than flat. We actually travel along an arc, a small one or a large one. It comes from our millenniums ago concept of a flat earth.

We work in Cartesian coordinates. Perhaps, spherical coordinates would have been very difficult to comprehend and do calculations.

As was thinking about cycles, I ran into my old draft in my archives. I am reproducing it below here.

Cycles - small and big

Som Karamchetty

11/12/2002

 

The heavens move in cycles and so do the atoms.

Many things in between are cyclic.

 

Our earth rotates at one cycle per year, i.e 365.25 * 24 * 3600 seconds around the Sun.

 

The earth rotates around itself once a day, i.e. 24 * 3600 seconds.

 

Sun has a cycle, so do all the planets.

 

We get 60 or 50 Hertz electric supply.

 

Our cell phones, garage doors, and the TV remote operate at several hundred mega Hertzs.

 

A battery supplies DC electricity, i.e. there is no period. Alternatively a cycle takes infinitely long time (or infinite seconds).

 

When a wave form is not harmonic, Fourier analysis is conducted and the various frequencies are determined.

 

A so called DC supply can actually be broken into harmonics if we have a beginning (zero) and an ending zero to the supply.

 

Light has certain frequencies.

 

A philosophical question is, what are the lowest and highest frequencies? God only knows, perhaps.

 

 

Crops come in cycles. There is a season when harvesting is done. The produce is stored or otherwise treated. It is consumed over a different cycle.

 

As an example, consider the growing of wheat. Wheat is harvested once a year (in a particular location at least). Then it processed and ultimately converted to bread (or other products). These products are consumed at a different frequency. It is approximately, 365 * 3 (assuming three bread meals a day).

 

Cows give milk at a certain frequency (twice a day), hen lay eggs once a day, and so on. People consume foods thrice a day (not counting the occasional munchies).

 

Electricity is produced in cycles and consumed in other cycles.

 

Water is gained from a cyclic rain and is consumed in a (approximate) cyclic fashion.

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