Hypothetical question about crop circles?

Question

Leaving aside the argument of whether they are made by a divine, extraterrestrial, or even earth-centered unseen force, or are a work of pure human artistic genius, do the symbols, geometric and mathematical messages of crop circles provide any meaning to us? Can we learn anything from them? Are there any serious studies of this phenomena?

I DID NOT ask about the genesis of them, or who created them. I specifically asked about the designs and symbols incorporated therein. Please read questions more carefully before answering glibly.

Answer 1

You might find answers via an area of research called sacred geometry.

Answer 2

Well to answer your question. Of course there are serious studies being done it is a mystery to people. Here is the rub. In order to answer the question "can we learn anything from them." You first must understand how they are made. We did a joke and created a crop circle once. It was an experiment. They reported it in our area and said and I quote, "this could not be man-made. There were no tool marks and no foot prints in the corn field that didn't belong to the owner (of the farm)." There were the usual explanatians. 1) Made be some body swinging a 2x4 on a rope 2) made by visitors 3) Made by farmer

Every explanatian was knocked down with argument. No such thing as visitors. No tool marks. Farmer was out of town that night and verified.

First of all, we had the farmers permission for the experiment. Secondly, We hid our tracks by gluing 1 ft x 1 ft squares of irregular shaped thin plastic sheets to the bottom of our shoes and gluing shaggy carpet to that. Third. We used a steamer with a long nose to basically steam the bottom of the corn stocks to make them lay over. We used strings to get the size right. It took two of us three ours to make a forty acre crop circle.

What does it tell you? It tells you that anything can be created by man with the right incentive and with enough planning. It tells you that people will believe anything and manufacture and answer when they have no clue. It also tells you, that people want to believe in something bigger than themselves and leap at new mysteries in a world in which most people think all the interesting questions have been answered.

Answer 3

Please see another thread where I've already answered this semi-thoroughly.

Basics: Majority of crop circles are "crop art" done by humans, with a few cases of pure/real "crop circles" exhibiting certain characteristics, such as sooty residue, auroral or flame phenomenon, electromagnetic disturbances, grains of iron or other spheres in surrounding soil samples, equipment failures, etc.

In these cases, it may actually be an electrical discharge phenomenon known as a plasma sheath vortex, where you get a filamentary or braided electric current:

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/birkeland+current
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Kristian+birkeland
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/z+pinch

basically you have a swirling electric charge which may generate an ionized layer of swirling air around it known as the plasma sheath [vortex]. There has been stronger and stronger evidence that many vortex phenomenon are lectrically powered: dust devils, tornadoes, hurricanes, water spouts, etc.

See the other article/question for more:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgUolz7thv2IMDBlPMPrt5rsy6IX?qid=20060714180531AAPzWUN

For a few other poignant related vignettes, let me point you to:

(From Nasa's archive, a waterspout):
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050120.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0412/waterspout_noaa_big.jpg

(Compare to thunderbolts.info article):
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050323waterspouts.htm

(Also from Nasa, a twister, or tornado forming):
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060702.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0506/tornado_nguyen_big.jpg

http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050330tornado-electric-discharge.htm
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2004/arch/040917electric-weather.htm
http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060420hurricanes.htm
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050322dustdevils.htm (very poignant photo! of a tornado and a lightning bolt right next to each other. OBVIOUSLY a charged weather system...)
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050321electridevils.htm

evidence is rapidly mounting that many vortexed systems of weather are in fact electric discharge phenomena. There's no reason to beleive that similar processes couldn't be happening in "true" crop circles. Taken with the EM interference, compasses jumping like with a lightning bolt, flame/aurora phenomena, sooty residue, solid spherical granules in the area probably from electrical arcing... It does seem to fit the profile of an electrical vortex.

No doubt exceedingly rare compared to the "crop art" (including cartoon characters) done by humans that DON'T share the same phenomena as true "crop circles".

Just some more intereting info I've found in the meanwhile. Figured it might be useful/enlightening. So, I guess there is somethign we can learn from crop circles. We may live in an electrically non-neutral universe...! I'd go into the electrical exchanges between the sun and the planets along electric force lines, but it'd probably blow your mind, since space is supposed to be a classical "mechanical" system of void space with no charge, etc. If you're really interested check out the Picture of the Day archive on thunderbolts.info, it'll change your perspective on things (assuming you understand it). They try to make things very accessible to the layman...

Answer 4

You should tell some body feeling very sick to go to the crop circle and feel the result when he or she comes out. I heard that crop circles and heal and also make people sick. Actually I don't believe, but people say that, so perhaps you might want to try an experiment on several people and several crop circles. They also say that some plants grow much better when someone create a crop circle there too.

Answer 5

Well I'm not sure that anyone will agree on the answer to that one but there are loads of studies being done. Many people are interested in crop circles for one reason or another.
I find the last link the most interesting myself. Basically they are trying to prove that crop circles have a electromagnetic vibration that has meditational tones that are supposed to be good for you.


http://www.cropcirclenews.com/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=24
http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/CropCircles.htm
http://www.cropcircleresearch.com/articles/research.html

Answer 6

They don't provide any meaning to us, I think they might if it was an environmental phenomenon that was disrupting too much and the meaning might be to find a "cure." They are a mystery as of now and there is nothing to learn from them, only to be baffled and wonder and theorize. Probably exactly what the people had in mind who put them there.

Answer 7

It's not a phenomenon. Just practical jokers with some boards and rope. It doesn't take much artistic skill at all. Not sure why anyone would waste time or money studying it.

Answer 8

There's no belief or faith here. There was a documentary a few years back on the guys that sneak into farms and put them in there. It actually was made to look quite easy to do.

Answer 9

try outlining one on a photograph. Stare at it in a quiet room with subdued light for about five minutes. Then try to put it out of your mind. When you wake the next morning, think about what you were staring at, and see if there are any insights from your subconscious.

Answer 10

Here is one study and at the bottom of the page you will find more articles from people who conducted a survey.