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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (36506)7/4/1999 3:42:00 PM
From: John Hunt  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116759
 
OT - Nostradamus Stuff

Hi Zeev

Nice to see all your posts ... I have been poking around in ole NostraD's quatrains for a couple of months, and since we are into nuclear physics today, what do you make of this?

Century 9 Quatraine 44

Migrez! migrez de Geneve trestous
Saturne d'or en fer se changera
Le contre Raypoz exterminera tous
Avant l'advent le Ciel signes fera

Translation

All migrate, migrate from Geneva!
The Lord shall change gold into iron
Atomic rays shall exterminate all
Before the event, Heaven shall give a sign

(I have modified the original translation, but mine seemed clearer)

Interpretation

The Lord shall destroy Geneva with nuclear weapons, changing its gold into iron. Before it happens, there will be a warning sign in the heavens.

Notes:

Migrez (emigrer): to migrate, move; trestous: all; Saturne: the Day of the Lord; or: gold; fer: iron, sword, "Saturne en fer" means God's Chastisement; contre: opposite; Raypoz: positive ray, "contre raypoz means electronic ray or nuclear weapon; avant: before; advent: event; ciel: Heaven, sky.

From my digging at the following site (I have little real knowledge of physics to understand what I found), I realize that gold probably will not change into iron after being nuked, but maybe Platinum? Mercury?

webelements.com

... Looking into his bowl of water (or worse mercury) that might have looked like iron to someone from his time.

What do you know about gold after it is subjected to very strong radiation?

:-))

John

PS - I posted this on the SI Nostradamus thread, but we don't get many experts in physics there < vbg >