Has Bendall ever addressed the 25,920 / 25,772 discrepancy?

Audit-mode synthesis of three parallel corpus searches. Sub-reports in bendall_on_25920_{1_direct, 2_patents, 3_orbit}.md.

The headline answer

No. Across roughly 920,000 words of Bendall, his patents, and the two principal channels of his orbit, the discrepancy is never addressed — not defended, not acknowledged, not engaged. Zero hits across all four corpora for 25,771 / 25,772 / 25,800 / IAU / Hipparchus / Newton / astronomer / modern measurement of precession.

The figure 25,920 is asserted ~80 times across the four corpora and is never challenged, defended, or revised. The modern measured value is not refuted — it is structurally absent.

Corpora searched

Three distinct behavioral patterns

1. Bendall himself — the question is category-incoherent

In Section 12 of the 2022 lecture series, Bendall states the load-bearing epistemic rule:

“in an alien mass or Sanskrit mass the sequence of the numbers within the number do not matter neither does the amplitude”

Under this rule, 25,920 ↔ 2592 ↔ 259.2 (the melting point of protium in °C) ↔ 0.2592 are all the same number under different “amplitudes.” Once the rule is granted, the question “is the precession period 25,920 or 25,772?” cannot be coherently asked — the precision the question requires is the kind of precision the framework rejects.

Bendall sources the number three ways, used interchangeably across the talks:

• Number identities — 3,456 − 864 = 25,920 (Section 14), 144,000 ÷ 5.555 = 25,920 (PART 17)
• Physical “imprint” — hydrogen’s −259.2 °C melting point onto the solar system “because proton is 99%+ of solar system”
• Sanskrit revelation — invoked without specific chapter/verse

No name-check of Plato, Hipparchus, Blavatsky, or any astronomer. The cited authorities are Sanskrit (vague), Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson, Walter Russell, Kepler, Schauberger. One verbal stumble at Tesla Tech 2023 — “the great year twenty five thousand twenty six” — looks like a slip (every other instance in the same conversation is 25,920), not an alternate value.

2. Patents — the lattice is structurally locked

PART 17 (Solomon’s Molten Sea Ark, 272 pages) is the only place 25,920 appears with anything resembling a derivation. PARTS 1–16 + the Vajra plate spec contain zero references to the figure — the cosmology layer is severable from the engineering layer, which is an important audit-level finding.

But the bigger structural point is that 25,920 sits at the clean sexagesimal intersection of every other PUM constant:

25,920 = 360 × 72
25,920 = 4,320 × 6              ← Vedic Yuga divisor
25,920 = 432 × 60               ← base-60 anchor
25,920 = 144,000 ÷ 5.555…       ← Aether / Light
25,920 = 311,040 ÷ 12           ← Sanskrit Time divisor
25,920 = 518,400 ÷ 20           ← TIME constant divisor
25,920 × 1.111… = 28,800        ← repeating-decimal cascade
25,920 × 2 = 51,840

The measured value 25,771.58 has no clean divisors with any of these. The lattice cannot absorb the correction without breaking many other identities downstream. The discrepancy isn’t ignored — it is structurally impossible to acknowledge from inside the framework.

Sourcing remains vague-collective: “Tibetan, Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Israelite, Mayan, Sanskrit Indian, Greek” traditions invoked together “from sources undisclosed.” No specific text, edition, or author is cited.

3. The orbit — credentialed silence + lay enthusiasm

The most striking behavioral signal in the whole investigation:

Bob Greenyer is silent on 25,920. Across his 15 MFMP THOR transcripts — including his 5,527-word “Hypothesis for operation of the TSG” (his single longest theoretical document) — there are zero mentions of 25,920, great year, precession, platonic year, zodiac, or equinox. His four Alchemical Science interview appearances likewise contain zero references.

Greenyer is the most scientifically credentialed person in Bendall’s orbit. He handles the cosmology layer by total abstention. He gestures at “the great Celestial Cycles” once by name-dropping Ed Nightingale’s Template Research, but never speaks the number himself.

The same silence pattern holds for Robert Haralick (mathematician, appears in the Pythagorean Tuning panel where Sheela Rahman does raise 25,920 — Haralick does not respond to that line), Bradley Young, and Ed Grimm.

In contrast, Jordan Collin treats 25,920 as a literal physical fact (54 mentions across the Alchemical Science corpus, calls it the “metronome of the universe”). His sourcing is interesting: he attributes the figure not to Blavatsky but to Randall Carlson — who himself uses the careful phrase “idealized numbers of the processional cycle”. That’s the closest thing in the entire ~918k-word combined corpus to a tacit acknowledgment that 25,920 is an idealization, not a measurement.

Blavatsky appears once — favorably, by Brian Keats in an interview, alongside Steiner as “hermetic scientists.” The 22 other “theosoph” hits are theosophical arithmetic* (Papus’s digit reduction) — same intellectual lineage, different technique.

What this tells the audit

The corpus search confirms what the cultural-origin research suggested. Bendall’s 25,920 is not a number under siege from modern astronomy — it’s a number that structurally cannot encounter modern astronomy from inside the PUM framework:

1. The Sanskrit-mass rule suspends the kind of precision modern astronomy operates at.
2. The closed sexagesimal lattice binds 25,920 to ~10 other PUM constants so tightly that revising it would unravel the entire numerical system.
3. The credentialed members of the orbit (Greenyer, Haralick) handle this by silence — they don’t endorse the cosmology numbers and they don’t challenge them. They simply stay in their lane (SEM-EDS, plasmoid mechanism, engineering).
4. The lay-evangelist members (Collin) treat the cosmology numbers as facts, sourcing them through the modern alt-history canon (Carlson) rather than through observational astronomy.

This is consistent with the audit-mode framing of the catalog from the start: PUM’s engineering layer is testable and mostly AWAITING-TEST pending instrumentation. PUM’s cosmology layer is non-empirical by construction. The 25,920 question is not a single bad claim — it’s a window into how the cosmology layer protects itself.

Suggested register annotation

In 15_claims_matrix.csv row C16, append to verdict_basis:

Corpus-wide search of ~920k words of Bendall talks + patents + Alchemical Science + MFMP turns up zero engagement with the measured value; Bendall’s “Sanskrit mass” rule (Section 12) and the closed sexagesimal lattice of PART 17 make the question structurally unaskable from inside the framework. Greenyer’s complete silence on the cosmology number across his ~20k-word corpus is the strongest behavioral signal. See 23_bendall_on_25920.html.

What this does not settle

• The “parts 17–20 written notes” hosted at strikefoundation.earth and randallcarlson.com are not in the local corpus. They may contain more explicit treatment. A targeted scrape would resolve.
• Bendall’s pre-2022 lectures (he claims to have been building TSGs since 2014) are not in the corpus and were never transcribed.
• Live Q&A from 2024–2026 events is not in the corpus and is the one venue where someone might publicly press him on the figure.

Any of these could surface a direct engagement we haven’t captured. But across the ~920k words that we do have, the pattern is unambiguous: the discrepancy is not contested, defended, or acknowledged.