The Foundation for the Study of Cycles - Definition and Overview

The Foundation for the Study of Cycles was an organisation formed in the USA by Ed Dewey in 1942 to study cycles in every discipline. It published a regular "Cycles" magazine and recorded the tireless work of Dewey and many other cycles researchers. The FSC held conferences and published proceedings. Unfortunately the FSC has become defunct in the late 1990s. A new organisation, Cycles Research Institute, was started by former members of the FSC in 2005.

Some discoveries of the FSC and Dewey are:

• common cycle periods appear in many seemingly unrelated disciplines.
• cycle synchrony is the observation that cycles of the same period often have the same phase.
• cycles harmonic ratios means that the common cycle periods are often related by ratios of 2, 3 and their products.

Related topics:

• A European and Russian organisation studying cycles and fluctuating phenomena is named CIFA.
• An internet discussion group on interdisciplinary cycles allows cycles researchers from different fields to exchange ideas and results.

External links

• Cycles Research Institute (http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.org/)