October 30, 2012 Chillicothe, Ohio - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said that number concepts were probably the most primitive element of order in the human mind. The Pythagoreans believed that all things are numbers and their constituents are components of all things. Over the centuries, some numbers were set higher than others. Thus, the numbers 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 40, 70 and 100 were considered sacred by many ancient peoples. In the Hindu Vedas, the numbers 3, 7, 21, 55, 77 and 99 are regarded as sacred. The Persians worshiped 3 and 7.
Historically, the number 3 was considered the most mysterious, while the number 7 was considered the most mystical of the top ten numbers. 7 is the only dimension, besides 3, in which a 3-dimensional vector cross product can be defined. In magic and in religion, the number seven symbolizes the seven heavens, the Pillars of Wisdom, the seven ages of man, colors of the spectrum and the archangels. Mathematically, seven is the lowest number that cannot be represented as the sum of the squares of three integers. A seven-sided shape is a heptagon.
The 7-armed pattern in the Chillicothe, Ohio, mid-September 2012 corn field has led to an unusual scientific theory about heptagons and the underlying construction of the universe.
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