B2.0 First Quantitative Analysis Attempt

      In the first attempt, one of the six major aspect angles and a corresponding orb were assigned to each pair of planets for each of the 60 (i.e., 15 + 18 + 27 = 60) geocentric planetary configurations. The aspect assigned to a pair of planets is the one for which the orb is smallest. For example, if the angular distance between and is 52° then the (60°) aspect would be assigned to the pair because there is an 8° difference between 60° and 52°, whereas the differences between 52° and 0° (), 30° (), 90° (), 120° (), 180° () are all greater than 8°. Table B-1 is an example of the aspect/orb assignments for one geocentric planetary configuration. Note that there is no data for Pluto (), that for each column the aspects are listed from top to bottom in order of increasing orb, and that horizontal bars are drawn to distinguish orbs of 10° and less from those of more than 10°.

      An orb variable (OV) was then established that starts at 0° and increases to positive values. As OV was increased from 0°, an account was made of how planetary complexes formed and grew. For example, and would form a two-planet complex at 1.1°, if x : 1.1°, where x represents any one of the six major aspects, and 1.1° is the smallest orb vis-a-vis the angular distance between and and the angular dimensions of each of the six major aspects. Any planet can join the / complex at a given value of OV by aspecting to and/or by one of the six major aspects with an orb equal to the given value of OV. In this manner it is possible to track the number of complexes and the total number of planets in all of the complexes as OV increases from 0°. Figure B-1 presents two examples of this process. Each example corresponds to one geocentric planetary configuration. (Note that the information in Figure B-1 that deals with the total number of planets in all Technique 1 complexes for each value of OV was not utilized in any of the analysis reported on herein. It may, however, be worth investigating.)

      The value of OV for which all nine planets coalesce into one complex is called the "Degree of Closure" (DOC). As mentioned in Section 5.0 and as discussed in Appendix E, the 60-Item Perdurabo/TAARP Data Base geocentric planetary configurations currently do not include Pluto, so there are only nine planets to deal with for this analysis, and the other analyses reported on herein.

      Note that this treatment of complex is simple and only demands that a group of planets form a simple-connected chain. For example, , , , and belong to the same "simple-connected complex" for OV = 5° if :3°, :4°, and :5°. A more stringent rule for complex formation would be that every planet in the complex had to be aspected to every other planet in the complex with orbs less than or equal to some defining value of OV. This would be a "maximum density-connected complex." Another definition of complex is "kernal-connected complex" in which one planet serves as the central element and the other planets in the complex are all aspected to it with orbs less than or equal to some defining value of OV.

      All of the analysis to follow in this appendix and in Appendix C are for simple-connected complexes. The two primary parameters for the first attempt at complex analysis are:

1. The degree of closure (DOC), which is the value of OV for which all of the planets coalesce into one simple-connected complex.
2. The maximum number of simple-connected complexes that manifested as OV was increased from 0° to the DOC.

      So, for the first attempt at complex analysis, for each of the High, Medium, and Low manifestations of the PHENOMENON, there is an associated geocentric planetary configuration. For each geocentric planetary configuration, 36 planet pair combinations exist. Here we have nine planets taken two at a time, to give 36 planet pair combinations. An aspect angle and associated orb is assigned to each planetary pair according to the rule given above. The maximum number of simple-connected complexes and the degree of closure for each set of 36 planetary pairs is calculated.

     The 36 orbs for each geocentric planetary configuration are treated as follows:

1. All of the orbs are assigned to Set 1.
2. Those orbs that are less than 10° are assigned to Set 2.
3. Those orbs that are greater than or equal to 10° are assigned to Set 3.
4. For each of the three sets, a mean, a standard deviation, and a median are calculated.

      These calculations are done for each of the geocentric planetary configurations for the 15 High PHENOMENON data items, the 18 Medium PHENOMENON data items, and the 27 Low PHENOMENON data items.

      For each of the three data groups of 15 High, 18 Medium, and 27 Low, the means, standard deviations, and medians of the maximum number of simple-connected complexes and of the degree of closure are calculated.

      The simple-connected complexes for the first analysis attempt are referred to as Technique 1 Complexes.