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Layer 1: Full Network (367 edges)
What you're seeing here is the E8 lattice, a structure from eight-dimensional mathematics, projected onto the Earth's surface at its statistically optimal orientation. Out of 6,720 possible edges, 367 pass within 11 kilometres of at least one sacred or energetically significant site. That's not cherry-picked; the tolerance of 0.10 degrees, or about 11 kilometres, is the threshold at which our alignment test returned a p-value of 0.005. In practical terms, if you randomly rotated this grid a thousand times and optimised each one, only about 5 of those thousand trials would match what you see here. In total, 155 of our 160 sites, nearly 97 percent, fall within this distance of an E8 edge.
Layer 2: Shared Edges (19 edges)
Now I'm filtering down to only the edges that connect two or more sites simultaneously. These 19 edges are the most compelling features; They're the ley lines, if you will. Notice the patterns: three separate edges link Uluru and Kata Tjuta in central Australia. The Easter Island cluster, Easter Island, Rano Aroi, and Rano Koi, shares edges from a single E8 vertex. Glastonbury Tor and Callanish in the British Isles sit on the same edge. The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem also share an edge, with the Giza endpoint just 9 kilometres away. These aren't coincidences we cherry-picked; they emerged from a single mathematical optimisation across all 160 sites at once.
Layer 3: The 5 Outliers
For full transparency: 5 of the 160 sites fall outside our 11-kilometre threshold when compared against all 6,720 edges of the E8 lattice. They are High Tatra in Slovakia at 11.7 kilometres, Niagara Falls at 11.7 kilometres, Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus at 12.2 kilometres, Prydz Bay in Antarctica at 13.3 kilometres, and Terreiro de Jesus in Brazil, the furthest, at 15.1 kilometres from its nearest E8 edge. To put that in perspective, that's roughly the distance of a short drive. These 5 outliers are scattered across different continents with no shared pattern, which is exactly what you'd expect from a genuine geometric fit with a small number of random misses, rather than a systematic failure.
By Exploring the Intersection of Science, Spirituality, and Consciousness by Salah-Eddin GherbiLayer 1: Full Network (367 edges)
What you're seeing here is the E8 lattice, a structure from eight-dimensional mathematics, projected onto the Earth's surface at its statistically optimal orientation. Out of 6,720 possible edges, 367 pass within 11 kilometres of at least one sacred or energetically significant site. That's not cherry-picked; the tolerance of 0.10 degrees, or about 11 kilometres, is the threshold at which our alignment test returned a p-value of 0.005. In practical terms, if you randomly rotated this grid a thousand times and optimised each one, only about 5 of those thousand trials would match what you see here. In total, 155 of our 160 sites, nearly 97 percent, fall within this distance of an E8 edge.
Layer 2: Shared Edges (19 edges)
Now I'm filtering down to only the edges that connect two or more sites simultaneously. These 19 edges are the most compelling features; They're the ley lines, if you will. Notice the patterns: three separate edges link Uluru and Kata Tjuta in central Australia. The Easter Island cluster, Easter Island, Rano Aroi, and Rano Koi, shares edges from a single E8 vertex. Glastonbury Tor and Callanish in the British Isles sit on the same edge. The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem also share an edge, with the Giza endpoint just 9 kilometres away. These aren't coincidences we cherry-picked; they emerged from a single mathematical optimisation across all 160 sites at once.
Layer 3: The 5 Outliers
For full transparency: 5 of the 160 sites fall outside our 11-kilometre threshold when compared against all 6,720 edges of the E8 lattice. They are High Tatra in Slovakia at 11.7 kilometres, Niagara Falls at 11.7 kilometres, Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus at 12.2 kilometres, Prydz Bay in Antarctica at 13.3 kilometres, and Terreiro de Jesus in Brazil, the furthest, at 15.1 kilometres from its nearest E8 edge. To put that in perspective, that's roughly the distance of a short drive. These 5 outliers are scattered across different continents with no shared pattern, which is exactly what you'd expect from a genuine geometric fit with a small number of random misses, rather than a systematic failure.