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The Great Pyramid is one of the most comprehensively surveyed buildings in the World. Scientists over the centuries have taken thousands of measurements in their quest to find out more about its mysteries.
Among those intrigued by the incredible accuracy of the Pyramid's construction was the great scientist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton. Attemping to formulate his famous law of gravity, Newton needed to know the diameter of the Earth. However, in the 1600's no measurement was accurate enough, especially since Newton theorized that the Earth's spin would cause an equatorial bulge. Having heard legends claiming that knowledge of the Earth, the past, and the future were contained in the Pyramid, Newton set out to investigate.
After studying the detailed measurements made by the investigators before him, Newton recognized that many key measurements would be in round numbers if the standard unit of measure was just 0.001 (1/1,000) inch larger than the British inch-which just happens to be the Sacred Jewish Inch. (The Sacred Jewish Inch, 1/25 of a cubit, equals 1.00106 British inches.) This discovery allowed the secrets of the Pyramid to be unlocked and revealed unmistakable and mathematical relationships. For instance:
We know from geometry that there is a universal relationship between the diameter of a circle and its circumference. Consider this: The height of the Pyramid's apex is 5,812.98 inches, and each side is 9,131 inches from corner to corner (in a straight line). If the circumference of the Pyramid is divided by twice its height (the diameter of a circle is twice the radius), the result is 3.14159, which just happens to be pi. Incredibly, this calculation is accurate to six digits. So the Pyramid is a square circle, and thus pi was designed into it 4,600 years ago. Pi is demonstrated many times throughout the Pyramid.
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Originally posted by Pigraphia
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by Barcs
I don't understand why people are saying that the mystery is solved. They suspect a ramp might have been used to help construction, nothing has been proven about the age. Even if they did prove the ramp, it still doesn't prove that they didn't need advanced tools, or indicate a date of construction.
No advanced tools are needed to cut and shape limestone or granite. Since that is a fact, why do you need "proof" of it?
Also, remains of ramps have been found at quite a few pyramids in Egypt, including the Great Pyramid. That means it falls on you to explain how it is that there's a ramp there but the ramp wasn't used to construct the thing.
And they certainly have proven how old the GP is through two different rounds of radiocarbon dating, not to mention the quarry marks, hieroglyphic grafitti and whatnot found inside chambers in the GP that had been sealed off by megaliths since the construction date.
The fact that you (apparently) don't know of these things doesn't invalidate them, you know.
Harte
They aren't arguing the fact that the stones can be cut with primitive tools, they are arguing the speed at which the pyramids were raised.
Which if you say it was done in 20 years which most of the articles I've read put it at under 50 years to build you have to wonder how they did it so fast.
As for "radiocarbon dating" can't use that on granite, granite isn't and wasn't alive.
Sure they used various radiometric dating methods, but if you're gonna counter someones point don't just grab the first thing your mind can come up with actually put the proper facts.
Otherwise it discredits your entire post as anecdotal.
1984
Project members collect samples
In 1984 we conducted radiocarbon dating on material from Egyptian Old Kingdom monuments (financed by friends and supporters of the Edgar Cayce Foundation). We then compared our results with the mid-point dates of the kings to whom the monuments belonged (Cambridge Ancient History, 3rd ed.).
The average radiocarbon dates were 374 years earlier than expected.
In spite of this discrepancy, the radiocarbon dates confirmed that the Great Pyramid belonged to the historical era studied by Egyptologists.
1994-1995
In 1994-1995 the David H. Koch Foundation supported us for another round of radiocarbon dating.
We broadened our sampling to include material from:
The 1st Dynasty tombs at Saqqara (2920-2770 BC).
The Djoser pyramid (2630-2611 BC).
The Giza Pyramids (2551-2472BC).
A selection of 5th Dynasty pyramids (2465-2323 BC).
A selection of 6th Dynasty pyramids (2323-2150 BC).
A selection of Middle Kingdom pyramids (2040-1640 BC).
We also took samples from our Giza Plateau Mapping Project Lost City excavations (4th Dynasty), where we discovered two largely intact bakeries in 1991. Ancient baking left deposits of ash and charcoal, which are very useful for dating.
The 1995 set of radiocarbon dates tended to be 100 to 200 years older than the Cambridge Ancient History dates, which was about 200 years younger than our 1984 dates.
The fact that you (apparently) don't know of these things doesn't invalidate them, you know.
Originally posted by Pigraphia
reply to post by Harte
There isn't mortar used in the pyramids, they are fit together without mortar.
Behind the backing stones, the core stones are actually even more irregular. We know this because, in the 1830s, Howard Vyse blasted a hole in the center of the south side of Khufu's's Pyramid while looking for another entrance. This wound in the pyramid can still be seen today, and in it, we can see how the builders dumped great globs of mortar and stone rubble in wide spaces between the stones.
Originally posted by Pigraphia
My point still stands the actual stones could not be carbon dated.
Originally posted by Harte
You are absolutely correct about this. However, nobody has claimed that such a thing could be done.
Originally posted by Harte
And they certainly have proven how old the GP is through two different rounds of radiocarbon dating, not to mention the quarry marks, hieroglyphic grafitti and whatnot found inside chambers in the GP that had been sealed off by megaliths since the construction date.
Originally posted by Pigraphia
Originally posted by Harte
You are absolutely correct about this. However, nobody has claimed that such a thing could be done.
Originally posted by Harte
And they certainly have proven how old the GP is through two different rounds of radiocarbon dating, not to mention the quarry marks, hieroglyphic grafitti and whatnot found inside chambers in the GP that had been sealed off by megaliths since the construction date.
At the very least you were not specific as to what was carbon dated, since you weren't specific I inferred you were talking about the stones.
Again to the dating, any material dated is only adjacent to the monuments and doesn't actually directly date them.
As for the mortar, I'll get back to you on that I need to do some digging and have an online test due in 42ish min.
Originally posted by TheHunterOfSouls
reply to post by unknown32
amazing and very intriguing so the pyramids hold secrets yet they are hidden oh the irony of the
creation ha ha very well visioned and constructed
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by tigereye
And what you just said?
It's hero worship.
If you want to do that, be my guess. There are more interesting things than the pyramids. And it doesn't take years to figure them out. I've gotten a pretty clear view of the ancient world from just 3 or so years of collecting a couple of pieces of data. And I'm just over half your age.
That's the problem of your own kind. You hop on the train just because it isn't mainstream, therefore being no different than mainstream.
Incapacity to understand that which everyone else gets doesn't make you special, and ability to goggle up insane theory doesn't make your eyes opened, it can also mean you're even more closed than the ones you ridicule.
You focus on stocks of rock, ignoring true mysteries like the ruins in South America, or the early reports of stone ruins in North America. You question proven fact and waste your life questioning it when your life could have been used asking real question on real mysteries, like why Gobekli Tepe seems to show myths that we would all know from Sunday school, only 6000 years before they supposedly happened.
Oh and it is my theory. Because I agree with his theory. A theory is claimed by its supporters. Just as you did not make up any theory, just read and get on the bandwagon.
Go ahead if you want to waste a life on questioning reality while ignoring true mysteries. But I do pity the fool who does.edit on 17-2-2012 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)edit on 17-2-2012 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Pigraphia
reply to post by Harte
Lousy 97.9% I wanted a 100%.
I'm very surprised to find so many examples of mortar in articles from PBS through discovers.
All the videos on the History channel alwasye said the stones were cut so precise that no mortar was used in their construction.
The videos go onto say the outer surface had mortar to make it smooth and refined, I had just alwayse taken that to mean for the internal construction to not have mortar and the outer construction to be aesthetics...
Originally posted by Barcs
reply to post by Harte
How do you know that the sampled mortar wasn't used for repairs? Certainly the pyramids have been repaired over the years. I can't honestly say that indicates a definite date of construction or the absence of advanced tools necessary to lay 1 block every 5 minutes.