11/11/11: Good or bad

Eleven has no connection with divine things no ladder reaching up to things above nor any merit- The 16th century scholar Petrus Bungus

This Friday, the Nov. 11, 2011, a date when three 11s are alligning for the first time in a century. Many of us are eying on the significance of this date. At one side numerologists are predicting on the basis of their numbers and at the other side psychologists are denying by stating it the ‘Apophenia’. At the 11th second and the 11th minute after the 11th hour, the date and time will form a 12-digit palindrome. It will be 11:11:11 on 11/11/11.This is a tell-tale sign of Apophenia. When someone finds out about the phenomenon, they subconsciously start keeping track of all the 11s they see. Our brains can't help noticing the repeating digits, and seeing them as meaningful.

“Fascination with dates is a part of myth and symbols in human mind which always strives for some strength beyond itself that is why all the auspicious and omen becomes necessity” says Alok Bajpai, a psychologist from NIMHANS.     11 Stands for illumination
According to www.timeanddate.com the numerical sequence of November 11 holds a special significance in the binary numeral system, which is the base-2 number system that represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1. The date of November 11 has a binary number of 111110 where it has a decimal equivalent of 62 in the year 2010, and a binary number of 111111 with a decimal equivalent of 63 in the year 2011. Website describes the numerology behind 11/11/11 and calculates that the number eleven has a special characteristic in mathematics where it is the sixth prime number. It contains some interesting peculiarities where the number eleven times itself equals a palindrome:    (2 digits) 11 x 11 = 121    (6 digits) 111111 x 111111 = 12345654321    (9 digits) 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321Film on "11/11/11"It's called; 11:11 make A Wish! What could be luckier than a wish made on 11-11-11 at 11:11am or pm? You can buy it on the Apple App Store for 99 cents. It has an alarm to remind users, if they so desire, to make a wish twice a day at 11:11am & 11:11pm and then share your wishes. Good Luck.

Posted By: Divyanshu Bhard