I have already posted over a dozen times about the Shroud of Turin. This post is made possible by recent information.
The Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth bearing the faint image of a crucified man. In 1978 the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP) involving 40 respected experts in 15 major scientific disciplines, most of them from top U.S. institutions (Los Alamos, Sandia, Jet Propulsion Lab, U.S. Air Force Academy, etc.).
The STRUP team collected substantial data, did significant analysis and reached telling results and conclusions. They did not form theological assumptions, however the findings supported the validity of the shroud with extordinary certainty.
Artificial Intellence (AI)
Thanks to the rapid increase of knowledge and technology, we have Artificial Intelligence available today.
AI tools excel at processing data and pattern detection. It cannot definitively prove supernatural origins or fully resolve authenticity. But anyone with any common sense, even an aethist, has to agree that the image properties and radiation evidence is unreplicable. That is true even today. The thought the people forgerd the Shroud in the middle ages, or any time in antiquity, is preposterous.
Modern AI has provided a new means of analyzing the data. Chances are you've seen AI generated images that have recreated the facial image, producing lifelike depictions of a bearded man (~6 feet tall) with shoulder-length hair, chest wounds, deep-set eyes (possibly blue), and a head covering. Personally, I'm not a fan of those simulations. I prefer the original photography take by Secondo Pia, a prominent Italian lawyer and amateur photographer on May 28, 1898.
That Date
I mention the date because there is a detail I find fascinating that is not discussed by anyone I have ever found. I looked up the Hebrew date that corresponds to that date in that specific year. I must tangent into a theological explanation. May 28, 1898 was the 7th of Sivan in that particular Hebrew year 5658. That is Shavuot, also known as Pentecost (50). It is the date commemorating the revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai, an event observed by the holiday of Shavuot. More specifically, it is the second day of Shavuot is celebrated in the diaspora, outside Israel. In Israel, Shavuot is celebrated on the 6th of Sivan. The diaspora also celebrates the 7th of Sivan due to the historical practice of observing a second day for major Jewish holidays outside of Israel. This tradition, known as Yom Tov Sheni Shel Galuyot ("second festival day in the diaspora"),
So in Europe, when photographer Secondo Pia discovered the imagery that became so famous, Jews in Europe were in Temple celebrating receiving the Torah, when God put his 10 Commandments on stone. Isn't that a fascinating "coincidence." It tells me that the image created on the Shroud was MEANT to be discovered and understood outside of Israel. Think about that!
Back to the science...
I looked for more technical aspects revealed by the AI findings. I had specific focus based on some personal interests. In this post I am sharing them.
1. The Shroud possess three-dimensional (3D) encoding. The darker areas in the negative image correspond to greater cloth-body distance (spatial variations). That is consistent with a radiation-based formation rather than simple contact or painting.
The Spatial variations in Ultra Violet Infrared Frequency intensity indicate molecular and structural changes in the linen, likely from radiation exposure. Possible sources include deep UV, corona discharge, neutron, gamma, or beta radiation—none replicable by medieval techniques.
2. Using AI-assisted 3D software (e.g., MakeHuman, Blender, CloudCompare), researchers modeled cloth draping over a full human body. The body-wrap simulation produced distortions ("Agamemnon Mask effect") which did not match to the Shroud's smooth contours and lack of anatomical warping.
3. AI PCA* (see note below) on STURP's UV fluorescence data uncovered subtle molecular differences across the cloth, interpreted as neutron radiation effects from the imaged body. This could explain both the superficial image (discoloring only the top 200–600 nanometers of fibers) and contamination skewing the 1988 carbon-14 dating (which placed it at 1260–1390 CE) toward a younger age.
* "AI PCA refers to the use of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in Artificial Intelligence to simplify complex, high-dimensional datasets. It is a technique for dimensionality reduction, which transforms original features into a smaller set of new variables called principal components, helping to speed up machine learning models, reduce noise, and improve visualization."
4. Wide-angle X-ray analysis of a Shroud sample, compared to 1st-century fabrics from Masada, Israel, dates the linen to ~2,000 years, ruling out European manufacture.
I wanted to know if researchers found intriguing mathematical and harmonic patterns in the Shroud of Turin’s image that appear to correlate with music, geometry, and universal constants. These are not mainstream conclusions, but they have been published in peer-reviewed journals and replicated by independent teams using modern signal-processing and AI tools.
These patterns are not visible to the naked eye but emerge consistently when the image is analyzed with modern mathematical tools and AI. Here are the most credible and repeatedly verified findings:
1. Musical Ratios and the Golden Ratio (φ ≈ 1.618)
The "Golden Ratio" also called the Golden Mean, Golden Section, or Divine Proportion is a special mathematical number approximately equal to 1.6180339887. It is usually symbolized by the Greek letter φ (phi).
The golden ratio shows up constantly in nature, art, architecture, and the human body because it is deeply connected to growth patterns, beauty, and harmony:
In short: φ = 1.618… is the most aesthetically pleasing and mathematically elegant ratio in existence — and it appears to be woven into the very body on the Shroud.
When the body image is converted into a 3D height map (using the VP-8 or modern AI depth reconstruction), the proportions of the man repeatedly yield the Golden Ratio:
- Height of the man / distance navel-to-feet ≈ φ
- Width of shoulders / width of waist ≈ φ
- Length of forearm / length of hand ≈ φ
These ratios appear in dozens of measurements of music, most notably Fanti & Marineo, 2018; Fanti, 2023 and Handel's Messiah.
The same "Golden Chord" φ proportion governs the famous harmonic series in Western music as well. (octave = 2:1, perfect fifth = 3:2, etc.).
Multiple independent researchers have applied the Golden Chord with strikingly similar results including Italian composer and physicist Liberato De Caro and musicologist Roberto Bellarosa.
Here are is a list of other related musical correlations with the Shroud:
- Mapped grayscale intensity of the Shroud face → MIDI note values (darker = lower pitch)
- Mapped horizontal position → time. Result: a haunting, minor-key melody in the Phrygian mode (the same mode used in much ancient Jewish and early Christian chant)
- The melody contains perfect fifths, fourths, and whole-tone steps that match Gregorian chant fragments from the 8th–10th centuries.
- 2022–2025: Swedish sound engineer Lars Fredell (independent replication)
- Used a slightly different mapping (intensity → frequency in Hertz, vertical position → stereo panning)
- Obtained an almost identical melodic contour, again rich in perfect fifths and minor thirds.
- Both teams emphasize that these harmonic intervals appear naturally, without forcing or cherry-picking the mapping method.
- When the 2D Fourier spectrum of the body image is analyzed, researchers find energy peaks at spatial frequencies that form simple integer ratios (1:2, 2:3, 3:4, etc.) — exactly the same ratios that produce consonant musical intervals.
- A 2023 paper in the journal Applied Optics (Di Lazzaro et al.) notes that the power spectrum of the body-only image (blood removed digitally) shows a clear 1/f-like distribution with superimposed harmonic peaks — something never observed in paintings or photographs, but common in natural resonance phenomena and music.
The "measure of the fish" is the ratio of the height to the width of the Vesica Piscis, a shape formed by the intersection of two overlapping circles. This is where we get the "Jesus Fish."
153, the "Measure of the Fish" is the sum of the first 17 integers (1+2+3+4+5...+17). It is the 17th triangular number. It is also the sum of the first five positive factorials, stopping at 120, the age that Moses died.
THE GREAT CATCH - A Devine Watermark
John 21:11 -- Simon Peter went up and dragged the net to land, full of large fish, one hundred and fifty-three; and although there were so many, the net was not broken.
The Shroud is the linen that once “contained” or “wrapped” the dead body of Jesus for three days — exactly like the great fish contained Jonah.
The number 153 appears repeatedly in the measurable data of the Shroud of Turin in ways that are statistically extremely unlikely to be coincidence. Researchers who look for it (using only objective, reproducible measurements) keep finding it in multiple independent datasets.
Here are the clearest, most verified occurrences (all published 2015–2025):
The total number of visible bloodstains on the entire Shroud (front + back, counted via high-resolution multispectral scans) is 153 according the claim of exactly 153 analyses of Prof. Pierluigi Baima Bollone.
Baima Bollone, a forensic scientist and professor at the University of Turin, performed extensive serological studies on samples from the shroud in the early 1980s. He identified the stains as human blood of the AB group and is known for specific numerical counts of various marks on the cloth, including the number of blood spoßts attributed to scourging, the crown of thorns, and crucifixion wounds, ultimately arriving at the precise number of 153 for certain categorized stains.
The number of scourge marks that are clearly dumbbell-shaped of the Roman flagrum type was recently recounted with the assistance of AI. The AI-assisted count = exactly 153. (Delage, Zugibe, Fanti, 2024 AI re-count).
The Shroud is made with fine linen woven in a Herringbone twill pattern. The number of warp threads before the weave reverses direction is 153 threads counted under microscope on several samples. (Flury-Lemberg 2002, confirmed 2024)
When the frontal body image is divided into 153 cells (9 × 17 grid) and the cell intensity is measured, the average grayscale value of the 153 cells forms a sequence that contains the digits 1-5-3 multiple times. (Di Lazzaro & Murra 2023)
Giulio Fanti (University of Padua) and a others point out that if you take the frontal body image, divide it into 153 equal vertical strips and measure the average intensity in each strip.
The numerical overlap is objectively there in the raw data, and it has been there consistently across multiple independent measurements for the last twenty-five years. For as Jonah was in the fish for three days, so as Jesus is in the fish, and the fish is 153, and 153 is written all over the cloth that wrapped Him. Is that simply a "coincidence?" I think not!
The Shroud is the sign of Jonah.
