Granite…what’s your experience with it? Mine is varied; Half Dome, counter tops, these top the list. But in every instance I can remember, my thinking when encountering granite in immaterial thought or material solid focuses on the solid aspect. Standing on Half Dome, stroking a granite surface, it is impossible to imagine that the size, the energy, of granite changes with temperature, that it is transparent to certain frequencies of electromagnetic radiation we can’t see, or that it is able to vibrate and resonate with particular sound frequencies. IOW, what appears to be ‘solid’ does things we can’t anticipate and therefore prove it’s much more ‘immaterial’ than we think.
And why wouldn’t it be? To think of anything as solid, we must be embedded in the Newtonian physical world, a world long since proven to be an incorrect interpretation of reality. Yet it persists, just like the ideas of religion, politics, and economics; an idea can remain stuck within its own lies, its dogma if you will, because the cost of changing the system, of changing ones’ mind, is so high.
Sidebar: During the Loma Prieta earthquake 17 October 1989, at 5:04 pm, I was sitting in a restaurant on El Camino Real, the main drag through Santa Clara CA. I saw something totally bizarre: there were about 20 waves in the asphalt of the road, moving quickly towards me, about 8 inches tall.
As the waves passed me, the shaking began. The waves were what we call the P-wave of the quake, the first and fastest wave of energy from the epicenter. I mention it here because I had never thought of asphalt, on a heavily traveled city street, as being flexible.
Now let’s get to the point of today’s essay. The flexibility of asphalt is not the point, rather, let’s unpack the idea of solidity and assumptions. I assumed that, based on my experience walking and driving on roads, that it would be impossible for an 8 inch high wave to distort the surface. I assumed that, given my experience with granite, it would neither swell with heat nor vibrate from sound. As we continue, this issue of size and temperature of granite will be good to remember.
This essay is the result of reading, “The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt” by Christopher Dunn (1998). I can’t recommend this book highly enough, not for the technical details (many of which I take on faith because they make common sense) but for the opportunity to open up some assumptions about our reality and throw a few of them up against a granite wall until they, not the granite, shatter. Mr. Dunn looks at all of the various anomalies noted throughout the exploration of the Great Pyramid over the last few hundred years and asks, “Is this what one reasonably expects from a tomb?” To be blunt, the tomb idea answers none of the questions we should be asking about such an amazing, precise, construction that we in the ‘modern’ world can’t even build today. The destruction wrought by scavengers over the decades destroyed evidence, but not to the degree that an open and careful mind cannot parse out the true purpose of the Pyramid. Here comes a long summary of the theory; and yes, it is like any good science, a theory until disproven by new data. Mr. Dunn offers a new interpretation of the data, one that answers questions in a much more satisfactory way than does the tomb idea.
That’s what science is supposed to do: replace poor theories with little coherent explanation of the known data with better theories. In the case of the pyramid, we have yet to understand the actual mechanics of moving those blocks of limestone and granite once they had been carved to perfection. And perfection it is: over 100,000 blocks fit together with gaps between 0 and 1/50th of an inch; all the more remarkable when the granite beams at the core of this project weighed over 70 tons each and were installed 175+ feet above ground. Attempts have literally been made (for TV shows, of course) to replicate the feat; and we can’t.
Let’s end the suspense: here’s a long excerpt from the book, giving the overall answer to the question, “Why this precise construction of rooms and tunnels?”
“Facilitated by the element that fuels our Sun (hydrogen) and uniting the energy of the Universe with that of earth, the ancient Egyptians converted vibrational energy into microwave energy. For the power plant to function, the designers and operators had to induce vibration in the Great Pyramid that was in tune with the harmonic resonant vibrations of the Earth. Once the pyramid was vibrating in tune with the Earth’s pulse it became a coupled oscillator and could sustain the transfer of energy from the Earth with little or no feedback….
The Queen’s Chamber (QC), located in the center of the pyramid, and directly below the King’s Chamber (KC), contains peculiarities entirely different than those observed in the King’s Chamber. The QC’s characteristics indicate that its specific purpose was to produce fuel, which is of paramount importance for any power plant. The residual substance the process left behind (the salts on the chamber wall) and what can be deducted from artifacts (grapnel hook and cedar-like wood) and structural details (Gantenbrink’s door for example) are too prominent to be ignored. They all indicate that the energy created in the KC was the result of the efficient operation of the hydrogen-generating QC.
The equipment that provided the priming pulses was most likely housed in the Subterranean Pit. Before or at the time the “key was turned” to start the priming pulses, a supply of chemicals [author proposes dilute hydrochloric acid and hydrated zinc chloride] was pumped into the Northern and Southern Shafts of the QC, filling them until contact was made between the grapnel hook and the electrodes that were sticking out of “Gantenbrink’s door”….these chemicals combined to produce hydrogen gas, which filled the interior passageways and chambers of the pyramid.
Induced by priming pulses of vibration – tuned to the resonant frequency of the entire structure – the vibration of the pyramid gradually increased in amplitude and oscillated in harmony with the vibrations of the Earth. Harmonically coupled with the earth, vibrational energy then flowed…and influenced a series of tuned Helmholtz-type resonators housed in the Grand Gallery, where the vibration was turned into airborne sound. By virtue of the acoustical design of the Grand Gallery, the sound was focused through the passage leading to the KC. Only frequencies in harmony with the resonant frequency of the KC were allowed to pass through an acoustic filter that was housed in the antechamber.
The KC was the heart of the Giza power plant, an impressive power center comprised of thousands of tons of granite containing 55% silicon-quartz crystal. The chamber was designed to minimize any damping of vibration, and its dimensions created a resonant cavity that was in harmony with the incoming acoustical energy. As the granite vibrated in sympathy with the sound, it stressed the quartz in the rock and stimulated electrons to flow by what is known as the piezoelectric effect. The energy that filled the KC at this point became a combination of acoustical energy and electromagnetic energy.
The hydrogen freely absorbed this energy, for the designers of the Giza power plant had made sure that the frequencies at which the KC resonated were harmonics of the frequency at which hydrogen resonates. As a result, the hydrogen atom, which consists of one proton and one electron, efficiently absorbed this energy, and its electron was “pumped” to a higher energy state.
The Northern Shaft served as a conduit, or a waveguide, and its original metal lining – which passed with extreme precision through the pyramid from the outside – served to channel a microwave signal in the KC. The microwave signal that flowed through this waveguide may have been the same signal that we know today is created by the atomic hydrogen that fills the Universe and that is constantly bombarding the Earth…Traveling through the KC and passing through a crystal box amplifier located in its path, the input signal increased in power as it interacted with the highly energized hydrogen atoms inside the resonating box amplifier and chamber. This interaction forced the electrons back to their original “ground state”. In turn, the hydrogen atoms released a packet of energy of the same type and frequency as the input signal. This “stimulated emission” was entrained with the input signal and followed the same path.
The process built exponentially – occurring trillions of times over. What entered the chamber as a low energy signal became a collimated (parallel) beam of immense power as it was collected in a microwave receiver housed in the south wall of the KC and was then directed through the metal-lined Southern Shaft to the outside of the pyramid.[1] This tightly collimated beam was the reason for all the science, technology, craftsmanship, and untold hours of work that went into designing, testing, and building the Giza power plant. The ancient Egyptians had a need for this energy: it was most likely used for the same reasons we would use it today – to power machines and appliances. We know from examining Egyptian stone artifacts that ancient craftspeople had to have created them using machinery and tools that needed electricity [or some form of power] to run. However the means by which they distributed the energy produced by the Giza power plant may have been a very different process from any we use today…..
…We can believe that the pyramid builders were primitive and that they used primitive methods of manufacturing if we choose to, but practical experience in the skills and technology that must have had a part in the creation of countless numbers of ancient artifacts in Egypt forces many people, myself included, to reject such notions…
Before I summarize, let me also mention a chapter near the beginning of Mr. Dunn’s book. It tells of Mr. Edward Leedskalnin, who is quoted as saying, “I know the secret of how the pyramids of Egypt were built!”
“Leedskalnin devised a means to single-handedly lift and maneuver blocks of coral weighing up to thirty tons…On average, the weight of a single block used in the Coral Castle [Homestead, Florida] was greater than those used to build the Great Pyramid. He labored over twenty-eight years to complete the work, which consisted of over 1,100 tons of rock…Leedskalnin somehow created and moved these massive objects without the benefit of cranes and other heavy machinery…
…he contracted with a local truck driver to haul his large rocks from Florida City to Homestead. As they prepared to load a 20-ton obelisk onto the truck, Leedskalnin asked the truck driver to leave him alone for a moment. Once out of sight, the driver heard a loud crash. Hurrying back to his truck, he was stopped in his tracks by the sight before him, hardly believing his eyes. He had returned just in time to see Leedskalnin dusting off his hands, the huge obelisk loaded and weighing down his flatbed.
Once in Homestead, the trucker was asked to leave his flatbed overnight and return in the morning. He was doubtful that Leedskalnin would be able to fulfill his promise that the obelisk would be off the truck and erected in the place he had set out for it….[yet] when he returned the following morning, Leedskalnin had moved the monolith into position, just as he had promised.
Leedskalnin took issue with modern science’s understanding of nature. He flatly stated that scientists are wrong. His concept of nature was simple: all matter consists of individual magnets, and it is the movement of these magnets within materials and through space that produces measurable phenomena – that is, magnetism and electricity and so on….There is speculation that he was employing electromagnetism to eliminate or reduce the gravitational pull of the Earth.
If I were to try to replicate Leedskalnin’s feat, I would begin with the premise that he was using his flywheel to generate a single-frequency tunable radio signal, the box at the top of the tripod would contain a radio receiver, and the cable coming from the box would be attached to a speaker that emitted sound to vibrate the coral rock at its resonant frequency. With the atoms in the coral vibrating (like those in an iron bar, aligned with the magnetic field and struck by a hammer), I would then attempt to flip their magnetic poles – which are naturally in an attraction orientation with the Earth – using an electromagnetic field.
Here we have a conundrum in our view of what it means to be ‘modern’: If we still, in today’s materialist science, lack true understanding of the nature of reality, then we miss myriad solutions that would work to transform our world with much less effort. We strive so much for comfort, and end up uncomfortable. We try to avoid mistakes, but don’t know where the “mind” comes from that is doing the trying. We know that electric vehicles were tried even before internal combustion engines; but Standard Oil won that battle. Nicola Tesla demonstrated an amazingly different view of energy, and had to destroy one of his most powerful machines to prevent the collapse of the building in which it was operating.
Nikola Tesla in his laboratory. Image: Dickenson V. Alley | licence CC BY-SA 4.0
Clearly, those that profit from oil and electricity won’t allow competition…at least until either (or both) fail and have to be replaced. Or is there a better way? Can we just…Go Wild once more?
[1] In essence, what we now call a “maser”