Beware of Number 23 --subterfuge !!!

I recently watched “Number 23” starring Jim Carrey as Walter Sparrow / Fingerling. The most fascinating part in the entire movie was the Number 23 itself. The movie compelled me to think if numbers can actually explain the occurrence of things around us.

· 23 is the most commonly cited prime number and the only prime number that consists of two consecutive prime numbers.
· Two divided by three makes 0.666 recurring (devil's number)
· The Hiroshima bomb was dropped at 8.15am - 8+15= 23.
· Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was published in 1859 -
1+8+5+9 = 23.
· The Sept. 11th ,2001 attack: 9+11+2+0+0+1 adds up to 23.
· Each parent contributes 23 chromosomes to the start of human life.
· Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times.
· William Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564. He died 52 years later on his birthday, 23 April 1616.He was born and died on the 23rd day of the month.
· The average human physical biorhythm is 23 days.
· The Titanic sank on 4/15/1912; 4+1+5+1+9+1+2=23.
· The tilt of Earth’s axis is roughly 23 degrees.
· The pattern of DNA shows irregular connections at every 23rd section · Humans have 23 vertebra running down the main part of their spines
· Blood circulates the body on average every 23 seconds
· The average circumference of a human head in inches is 23
· There is no 23 Chapter in the Bible book Revelations.
· There are 2,300 stones comprising the Great Pyramid
· There are exactly 23 characters, numbers and letters on the face of all U.S. coins
· 23rdians are a group of people who subscribe to the mystical power of 23 and see it in multiple combinations throughout daily life.
· December 23, 2012 is the day the classic Mayans said the world would end.


I am sure after reading this you might be tempted to know more about this enigma if there exists more strange facts about 23 which reflect reality. If you really do so, it is known as apophenia –people get trapped by their own minds.

APOPHENIA - is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. It can be a normal phenomenon or an abnormal one, as in paranoid schizophrenia when the patient sees ominous patterns where there are none. The 23 Enigma refers to the belief that all incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, some permutation of the number 23, or a number related to the number 23, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter.


Posted by: Jaspreet