Soft "Science" and Evidence of Your Own Eyes.

[cladking]

This is simply fascinating;

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/20/5231

The authors suggest that the function of the pyramid was related to hydraulics.  

All advancement in the study of the pyramids is now outside Egyptology which still won't release the infrared results from 2015. 

 

I have some question about the validity of all these results but I'm quite confident at least some of it is fully legitimate and accurate.   I'm still digesting it.  

(b Interferometric fringes of Khnum-Khufu

I seriously doubt we'll understand the pyramids until we give up the notion that its builders were superstitious.  

Edited February 8 by cladking

[studiot]

Thank you for posting this update, +1

Just now, cladking said:

This is simply fascinating;

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/20/5231

I note that right at the beginning the authors acknowledge difficulties with solid-penetrating radar and later introduce ulltrasonic tomography.

 

I too have had better reliability and accuracy. looking into solids with ultrasonics than with radar

[cladking]

On 2/8/2025 at 5:02 PM, studiot said:

Thank you for posting this update, +1

I note that right at the beginning the authors acknowledge difficulties with solid-penetrating radar and later introduce ulltrasonic tomography.

 

I too have had better reliability and accuracy. looking into solids with ultrasonics than with radar

I should understand this study and its results better than I do.  I didn't realize when I posted it that it is essentially the same study done a couple years back that I didn't post here because I found the results to be suspicious, but more importantly, because the results neither support Egyptological theory nor mine.  Indeed, the passages can be taken as internal ramps better supporting their concepts than mine.   I no longer have access to the original so can't compare them but the only change may be that more math is shown.  

There will be more and more of this sort of testing and remote sensing with ever better equipment, analysis, and expertise whether Egyptology cooperates or not.  There are more theoretical means of imaging these that haven't been invented and developed yet.   I have little doubt the answers will be forthcoming within a few years.   

[studiot]

Tomography is a highly mathematical subject that takes a great deal of postgraduate level understanding.

[cladking]

On 2/15/2025 at 4:45 PM, studiot said:

Tomography is a highly mathematical subject that takes a great deal of postgraduate level understanding.

Thanks.  I was never very good at math beyond the calculus and I've lost a lot of it.   

This is very long and might not be worth the time but it has several new points that are quite interesting.  Apparently there are mathematical  relationships between the various characteristics.  Some of these could be contrived but they make an interesting argument and imply a lot of mathematical knowledge of the makers.  Second and of more interest to me they found titanium and/ or a titanium alloy in the track of the tube drill that was apparently used to hollow them.  

There's growing interest here just as there is growing interest in all the other facts that have been dismissed by Egyptologists for many years.   Events are unfolding ever faster as I predicted.  This year might be a watershed year in the determination of how the pyramids were built.  A lot more people and a lot more scientists from many disciplines are beginning to look at these subjects.  In the past only Egyptology had any financial backing and they had extensive funding.   

[studiot]

5 hours ago, cladking said:

Thanks.  I was never very good at math beyond the calculus and I've lost a lot of it.   

This is very long and might not be worth the time but it has several new points that are quite interesting.  Apparently there are mathematical  relationships between the various characteristics.

There is a lot to consider when you investigate the geometry, structure and composition of something using radiation of some sort, including sound or other mechanical waves or pulses.

The maths to understand principles of this is not too difficult.
It is the extraction of the detailed numbers that requires thye sophisticated stuff, correctly applied.

For instance you need to decide whether you are going to use transmitted, refracted or reflected rays.
If using direct transmission as with X rays you need access to both sides of the object / material.
This can be a major difficulty.

Single side access can be accomplished using reflected rays.

The wavelength determines the size of feature, void or discontinuity you can determine.

We can discuss this further if you wish.

 

[cladking]

On 2/28/2025 at 6:32 AM, studiot said:

We can discuss this further if you wish.

Come to think of it, even if I don't get much out of an explanation perhaps others will.  

 

[cladking]

This is so long I hesitate to post it but anyone interested in the various perspectives related to the vases might want to look at parts of the first half.  Matt Beall is very articulate.   

These vases are exceedingly common and the Egyptological viewpoint that they are all fakes doesn't seem to hold water.  

Many (thousands) of reproductions are sold but they sell for low prices and many pieces have been in private collections for many decades.  There are obvious differences between rough originals, rough reproductions, and the ones from private collections.  It has always been up to Egyptology to prove their hypotheses but they simply don't address any such issues.  They do not study the artefacts and when anomalies are found by outside scientists they brush them off.