A30: VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT

Some things on our planet are public-domain, meaning, they belong to all of us. Now, because those things belong to us all, they belong, in fact, to our entire Human Civilization. Wow! That is so nice! In contrast, a bunch of idiot people hide many cultural treasures in "private collections" driven by pride, greed, vanity, or whatever: that is a very, very uncivilized behavior only, what would you expect from such individuals? Anyway, those treasures that are public-domain can be admired and thoroughly analyzed by anybody who wants to do it. That is the true beauty about an object belonging to the public-domain: each of us can investigate the object, and we could share interesting observations. Possibly, even incredibly interesting observations.

One of the most intriguing mysteries of our Civilization is the Voynich Manuscript--VMS for short. Do not worry, because we are going to insert a few links where you can find out everything you want to know about VMS, and you can even download the PDF pictures of its pages for your pleasure, and for your scientific curiosity. Even more, there are thousands of Internet sites where VMS is dissected and analyzed to the finest details, because it has stirred our imagination for quite some time. Our intention, in this article, is to be very brief about describing the VMS object, because we do not want to repeat what other people have said, possibly, way better than we do it. In addition, by keeping things simple, we hope the resulting Global Picture is a lot more clear.



The first thing that seems the most important about VMS is the paper used, and the inks. We couldn't find any data about these two issues, therefore we draw the conclusion they are just normal, terrestrial "things"; otherwise, everybody would have cried out loud. Perfect! The first conclusion is, VMS was written here, on Ter-Ra, using terrestrial paper and inks. Please note that we used the word "conclusion", not "assumption": this is due to the fact that we are certain the paper and the inks used are terrestrial.

The second important issue about VMS is the text: it belongs to a language that has no terrestrial connections, and we are not the first ones who says so. In fact, VMS has been analyzed for almost 400 years by the brightest linguists and cryptologists in the World, and their generally accepted conclusion is: there are absolutely no connections to any language known on Ter-Ra. Sure, we still have plenty of time in the future, and many hope someone, someday, will be able to decipher at least one word from this famous VMS. You see, all terrestrial languages have a few common grammatical particularities; however, it looks like this nasty VMS doesn't obey to any of them. In addition, the scientists agree the language used is not a terrestrial-artificial one.

The third important aspect is the hand-writing: it is particularly nice! That tells us (and to many other scientists) that the persons who wrote the VMS were well familiar with that strange (alien) hand-writing. Normally, it takes a minimum 10 years of intense work to master such a beautiful hand-writing. Yes, we said "persons", because there are 2 distinct hand-writings, although many suspect 5 more persons have added something to that document.

The fourth important issue, and the last one, are the pictures of plants in VMS: with 2 doubtful exceptions, all plants pictured in there in details are not from Ter-Ra. We saw those plants, and you are going to see them also. Please be aware that nobody on Ter-Ra can identify those plants--with 2 exceptions, as mentioned.

All right; that was all we needed before drawing conclusions. Of, course there are many other interesting observations about VMS, including lots of speculations about the content of the text, about the meaning of the astronomical/cosmological pictures, and about the structure of the document in general, but we do not care about them--they are just too many, unnecessary details. As you can see, we limit our observations to only 4, in order to draw our conclusions, therefore to build the Global Picture we need.

The Global Picture is this: we have a manuscript written on Ter-Ra about 450 years ago, in an alien (extraterrestrial) language, containing pictures of plants that exist on other planets only. During those days, nobody wasted, say, a minimum 4 years of hard work to write such an elaborate document unless it was really needed. The first question is: "How could someone on Ter-Ra describe plants from other Planetary Systems?" Not to mention the hand-made pictures requires the actual plant models, because that is a time consuming job. Besides, in those days everybody used natural models when drawing something. Does this mean that in 1550 somebody here on Ter-Ra was capable of (easily) accessing other Planetary Systems?

Given the fact the language used is unknown--after 400 years of fruitless investigations--and totally unrelated to any terrestrial one, we conclude the persons who wrote that book were extraterrestrial people living right here, on Ter-Ra. But, "Why did they need that document?" It is clear VMS was a working scientific document, and not a literary one. That means, the people who worked with that book had fast access to those plants that can be found in other Planetary Systems, although those people lived right here, on Ter-Ra!

The science we know today says that reaching other Planetary Systems is not possible for us--plain and simple. For example, the fastest speed we know is light-speed, but a spaceship cannot travel at that maximum speed. According to Einstein's Relativity Theorems, when closing to the speed of light, mass becomes infinite, time passes slower, and space is contracted. The real problem is the increase in mass: both the human body and the construction materials we could use for building such a wonder ship cannot handle too much weight increase. Practically--and according to our official science--a spaceship could travel at 1/10 light-speed without structural damages, and people could handle that speed. In that case, please note that it would take about 100 years for a trip to Alpha Centaury and back, and that is considering the most indulgent scenario, without taking into consideration the acceleration and deceleration time needed. In other words, that little trip to Alpha Centaury is not reasonably possible for us, even if we manage to discover that fantastic engine capable of 1/10 light-speed, working continuously for 100 years.

On the other hand, this UFO problem is a permanent presence throughout the History of our Civilization, and it is logic to conclude that interstellar travel is possible, somehow. In fact, it is a lot easier to imagine that the science we know is primitive, and we work with bad
Physics-Mathematics models. In this last instance, we could discover THERE IS something further down the atom, and that SPACE COULD BE obliterated.



To us, that is the simple logic that explains everything. However, people and the scientists want "evidences", "repeatable experiments", "terrestrial applications" and so on. There is nothing wrong with those "requirements", except that, before asking for something, you have to allow, or to accept, new ideas. Today, people do not like it too much when they hear their dear Quantum Mechanics Theory it is just a set of fantasist fictions. On the contrary, they label the ideas we describe as belonging to the Science Fiction domain. Just try to imagine that the Quantum Mechanics Theories may prove to be pure mechanical Science Fiction tomorrow, and the ideas we present here are going to become sharp reality one good day. That is not bad, because our efforts are particularly focused on scientific development, while QMT is holding us back conservatively to a mechanical model of reality.

To come back on track, the problem is, we have this thorny and embarrassing VMS: it exists, and it is here. How? Why? Well, you should better see for yourself. The best thing is to navigate first to http://www.voynich.nu/ There you are going to find many details and lots of links to other sites. Next, the VMS is held at Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of Yale University in USA (MS408).  [Link: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/voynich.html ]

[ATTENTION: the link above appears to be broken in 2011. Therefore, the best thing to do is, go to Wikipedia, and then search for "Voynich Manuscript". Next, in that Wikipedia page, towards its bottom, you are going to discover the actual link to the PDF file.]


Now, to end this article appropriately, please be aware there are thousands other "evidences", as VMS is, and some of them are even way more incredible. Unfortunately, most of those exceptional documents, or objects, are in particular hands, because there is a true gold-rush to get them. They are out of our Human Civilization patrimony, but it is possible they will be returned to the public domain, some glorious day. We can only hope that event is going to be rather sooner than later.

The conclusion we have outlined above, about alien people living right here on Ter-Ra since old times, is not based entirely on VMS. It would be childish to base our beliefs on a single document, even if that document is exceptional in informational value--as is VMS. The truth is, we have built over the years an entire system of arguments and contra-arguments, incredibly complex and based on thousands of facts, evidences and interpretations, and all of them point to that conclusion only.

Today, an "alien presence" on our planet is way beyond liking it or not, believing in it or not, or belonging to a rebellious partisan intellectual position: it is just here. However, please be aware there are other "things" near us, far more important and extraordinary than any alien presence. Want to discover them? Just start with our SF books.

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First published on November 20, 2005 
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