No, someone hasn’t cracked the code of the mysterious Voynich manuscript
arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/no-someone-ha...Posted May 16, 2019, 1:56 PM UTC
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Posted May 16, 2019, 1:56 PM UTC
I think it’s a hoax. It’s gibberish.
it would still be interesting to learn who did it, and maybe how
I agree. Maybe it’s something. I’m not code breaker lol, I’d for sure like to know what the truth is.
It’s statistically flat so it’s likely a decorative work. Sometimes people do things like this with no concrete purpose in mind other than to be creative. Thus it’s a very human endeavor.
Statistically yes it’s gibberish. The index of coincidence shows it not to be a language (coded or not). The digraph, trigraph, tetragraph distribution is flat. It appears to be purely decorative (not uncommon). It’s a fantastical work of fiction. The Bristol researcher’s work is likely intentionally satirical.
Even if someone was able to decipher it, I feel like it would contain information already known to science by now.