source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 23:15:08 +0200 Subject: New Interdisciplinary Listserv Group on CYCLES request for interest? From: rtomes@kcbbs.gen.nz (Ray Tomes) Dear everyone I am planning to set up a listserv group for discussion on the subject of CYCLES, meaning phenomena in any discipline that are repeated in time or space. The subject areas include, but are not limited to astronomy, biology, climatology, commodities, cosmology, dendrology, economics, extinctions, finances, geology, history, meteorology, mathematics, medicine, music, paleontology, politics, prices, physics, social trends, stocks, weather, wars. Observations of cycles, mathematical analysis methods and theories concerning cycles are to be discussed and information about conferences, lectures, books, software and other related matters. The emphasis is on an interdisciplinary approach. According to Edward Dewey, who formed the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, there is no subject are that has been studied which does not show cycles. Other interdisciplinary cycles researchers include Raymond Wheeler, and the famous Russians Kondratieff and Chizhevski. Because education is broken into particular disciplines, the benefits of understanding of the relationships between all things that can be achieved with an interdisciplinary approach are often not achieved and many people must rediscover these connections for themselves. So this is primarily an interdisciplinary group for sharing information, discoveries, ideas and theories on cycles. My name is Ray Tomes and I am a member of the advisory board of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles in the US and a member of CIFA in Europe/Russia and have attended and spoken at many cycles conferences around the world. It is clear that researchers in all areas of study can gain a new perspective by the study of cycles and recognising that there are many relationships between things that we do not fully understand. Some Keywords: cycles, periodicity, frequency, fourier analysis, spectral analysis, spectrum, waves, waveforms, indicators, music, tuning, electromagnetism, sound, brain-waves, rhythm, circadean rhythms, resonance, repetition, modulation, signal, noise, catastrophe. If you are interested in being a member of such a list group (messages are exchanged through email by special servers) then please reply to me by email by keeping the subject field the same as above and replacing the contents of this post by a simple statement of interest. The group will be started if and when there is sufficient interest and those replying will be subscribed. You can unsubscribe at any time that you want to. I will be the list owner and only members of the list will be able to post to the list which will be available in a digest form (so that only one message per day arrives). The policy of the group will be strictly enforced so that all posts are: a. Polite and respectful. b. Related to the subject matter of Cycles in some way. c. Considered and not overly repetitive. If you have any further suggestions on policy or subject matter then please include them with your reply and a statement of policy will be issued when/if the list commences. Best wishes Ray Tomes -- Ray Tomes -- rtomes@kcbbs.gen.nz -- Harmonics Theory -- http://www.kcbbs.gen.nz/users/rtomes/rt-home.htm Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 02:40 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04622; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 02:41:16 +0200 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 02:41:16 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04639 Received: (qmail 9261 invoked from network); 4 Jul 1997 00:41:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jul 1997 00:41:07 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu