Revelations of the Pyramids
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Westy Pre-Lit said:
Also Nice to see people who propose to be members of the scientific community commenting and judging without looking at the subject context. 
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The video explains far better than I ever could.
Then you can tell us what it says. Seriously, my mac is 2004 vintage and videos are a bit wonky. Shirley you can precis it? Break it down. Does it say men built it? . The video explains far better than I ever could.
Well, from what I watched of it this morning, it seems to say how impossible it was, which automatically makes it ridiculous, as we know it is possible. it is amazed at how the pyramids are aligned to the north, and it is amazed at how they cut them with a round stone ball, and a bit of copper.
Interestingly, the hyroglyphics that have been shown on previous threads as a helicopter, one of the thunderbirds, and Luke's hover thingy, are laughed away as simply overlapping symbols.
Basically, the premise of the show, from what I saw, was essentially;
"We don't know how they did it, therefore something odd happened".
I got bored, to be honest.
Interestingly, the hyroglyphics that have been shown on previous threads as a helicopter, one of the thunderbirds, and Luke's hover thingy, are laughed away as simply overlapping symbols.
Basically, the premise of the show, from what I saw, was essentially;
"We don't know how they did it, therefore something odd happened".
I got bored, to be honest.
Westy Pre-Lit said:
1.18.18 - "Take this figure to a physicist......." 
Intrigued by this and now that's five minutes of my life wasted.From doc - draw a circle inside the base, draw one outside. Subtract circumference of inner from outer. Show to physicist - "that's the speed of light!"
Each side originally 440 royal cubits (230.4m) – figure from wiki because it’s easiest. So inside circle is 723.8m circumference. Outside circle is 325.8m diameter from Pythagoras so 1023.5m circumference. Outside-inside is 299.7
In the documentary this is claimed to encode the speed of light. Speed of light in vacuum is 2.9979e8 m/s. So it equals the first 4 digits, ignoring rounding. Wow, spectacular isn’t it?
Frankly no. Use enough calculations and look at enough constants and near-ish coincidences like this are commonplace. Particularly if you have a fairly generous error margin on the size of a cubit in meters.
Anyone who thinks that this means that the Egyptians knew the speed of light is mental. Needless to say I won't bother with the rest of the documentary.
hairykrishna said:
Anyone who thinks that this means that the Egyptians knew the speed of light is mental.
Even if they did, wouldn't they have just written it down somewhere rather than encoding it in some daft architectural numerology? Plus why encode a value in m/s in cubits? Who foresaw that the meter would even be defined?Eric Mc said:
Westy has a prediliction for the more extraordinary explanations for things that have pretty ordinary explanations.
That's why I don't rate this as a thread worthy of a "science" forum.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Well, if he has evidence then I expect it to be put forward. This is evidence being put forward and this is evidence getting shot down. Either way if this was a real bit of research and taken seriously I would expect to see it published and tested. Lurking on youtube should be a hint that its cobblers but there we are.That's why I don't rate this as a thread worthy of a "science" forum.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Einion Yrth said:
hairykrishna said:
Anyone who thinks that this means that the Egyptians knew the speed of light is mental.
Even if they did, wouldn't they have just written it down somewhere rather than encoding it in some daft architectural numerology? Plus why encode a value in m/s in cubits? Who foresaw that the meter would even be defined?
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