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NewAgeMan
Another remarkable feature of the GP is that every stone is apparently a different shape or has different dimensions. That's quite the feat of engineering and planning.
Personally I think that the ancient Egyptians had mastered the engineering and mechanics of the fulcrum and leverage, making the stones in effect, lighter somehow.
But there is no doubt that the dimensions of the pyramid do encode that of the earth-moon-sun configuration, which is an utterly astounding fact, not that they were able to mimic it, but that it can be reduced as such.
NewAgeMan
The Golden Ratio & Squaring the Circle in the Great Pyramid.
A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the less. [Euclid]
The extreme and mean ratio is also known as the golden ratio.
If the smaller part = 1, and larger part = G, the golden ratio requires that
G is equal approximately 1.6180
Does the Great Pyramid contain the Golden Ratio?
Assuming that the height of the GP = 146.515 m, and base = 230.363 m, and using simple math we find that half of the base is 115.182 m and the "slant height" is 186.369 m
Dividing the "slant height" (186.369m) by "half base" (115.182m) gives = 1.6180, which is practically equal to the golden ration!
The earth/moon relationship is the only one in our solar system that contains this unique golden section ratio that "squares the circle". Along with this is the phenomenon that the moon and the sun appear to be the same size, most clearly noticed during an eclipse. This too is true only from earth's vantage point…No other planet/moon relationship in our solar system can make this claim.
Although the problem of squaring the circle was proven mathematically impossible in the 19th century (as pi, being irrational, cannot be exactly measured), the Earth, the moon, and the Great Pyramid, are all coming about as close as you can get to the solution!
If the base of the Great Pyramid is equated with the diameter of the earth, then the radius of the moon can be generated by subtracting the radius of the earth from the height of the pyramid (see the picture below).
Also the square (in orange), with the side equal to the radius of the Earth, and the circle (in blue), with radius equal to the radius of the Earth plus the radius of the moon, are very nearly equal in perimeters:
Orange Square Perimeter = 2+2+2+2=8
Blue Circle Circumference = 2*pi*1.273=8
Note:
Earth, Radius, Mean = 6,370,973.27862 m *
Moon, Radius, Mean = 1,738,000 m.*
Moon Radius divided by Earth Radius = 0.2728 *
Source: Astronomic and Cosmographic Data
Let's re-phrase the above arguments
In the diagram above, the big triangle is the same proportion and angle of the Great Pyramid, with its base angles at 51 degrees 51 minutes. If you bisect this triangle and assign a value of 1 to each base, then the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) equals phi (1.618..) and the perpendicular side equals the square root of phi. And that’s not all. A circle is drawn with it’s centre and diameter the same as the base of the large triangle. This represents the circumference of the earth. A square is then drawn to touch the outside of the earth circle. A second circle is then drawn around the first one, with its circumference equal to the perimeter of the square. (The squaring of the circle.)
This new circle will actually pass exactly through the apex of the pyramid. And now the “wow”: A circle drawn with its centre at the apex of the pyramid and its radius just long enough to touch the earth circle, will have the circumference of the moon! Neat, huh! And the small triangle formed by the moon and the earth square will be a perfect 345 triangle (which doesn’t seem to mean much.)
Ref: nexusilluminati.blogspot.ca...
Maghda
reply to post by NowanKenubi
...and if that is not his tomb then what would they all be doing there...!
There is no surviving physical evidence that he was ever buried in the pyramid, in terms of remains or grave goods, but the fact the monument was his tomb is overwhelming due to the contextual evidence.
sulaw
reply to post by jaffo
As everything you read on the intramanet is "fact".... Riiiiiiight~
It doesn't mean that everyone raising there hands is claiming "Aliens did it", great Scotts McFly way to stereo type!
Additionally, your telling everyone on these boards, that a civilization that was 1 step out of the stone age was more organized and better versed at engineering an empire with "iron" tools than that which is standing now.
Yea... keep reading all those facts on Google, you are soooooooo right!!! Let me know when you find that exit to the "box" your currently in~
But then again, Aliens did it
/endsarcasm
OccamsRazor04
They did not use modern tools, depending on your definition. They used iron, but otherwise everything was done by hand. And to account for that he tripled the amount of men required and STILL came up with 30,000 men as being enough.
As far as the trucks go, they took the place of the barges which have been proven to have been able to carry the largest of the stones.
So basically you will never accept anything any "mainstream" person says because they are automatically wrong due to them having credentials and working in the field? Perhaps rather than character assassination you can tell me exactly what Lehner says that is false. And we have records of winches being used 2500 years ago.
Right. And, um, where do YOU get YOUR facts, my friend? Do you have a more reliable internet than do I? Again, HAND WAVING, sir.
Riffrafter
The high-strangeness factor of the structure itself and the seeming impossibility of it's very construction (as you so aptly pointed out) coupled with all of the other high-strangeness associated with it's position, measurements and angles leaves historians and Egyptologists with a real mess on their hands. So, what the hell is it? I think a better question changes the tense above: What the hell was it?
My personal belief is that it was a single-purpose structure meant to be used either once or only for a very short time and it has long since fulfilled it's purpose and all that we're left with are the metaphoric shards of pottery after a sumptuous "prehistoric" meal has long since been served.
Maghda
reply to post by NowanKenubi
...extensive carbon dating material from the pyramid itself places it's construction within that timeframe, thus no Egyptologist takes Creighton remotely seriously....
Hawass remains categorical in his rejection of the technique: ”Not even in five thousand years could carbon dating help archaeology… carbon dating is useless. This science will never develop. In archaeology, we consider carbon dating results imaginary.” - Source
Right. And, um, where do YOU get YOUR facts, my friend? Do you have a more reliable internet than do I? Again, HAND WAVING, sir.
Yet I don't claim to understand that which is NOT understood, as FACT when we can't even replicate that which our Ancestor's left.
Again, just a Ancient Civilization that was one step out of the stone age yet they were more sophisticated with Engineering structures such as the GP.... Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight