I think we have stumbled on the perfect insult! "Your name is perfect as Upu. Your face is that of a toad." Who knew the Egyptians had such an advanced insult technology? A useful tool when arguing with proponents of ancient Egyptian light bulbs.
I asked my contractor how much energy my new granite countertops will generate, and he had no idea what I was talking about. Clearly he has fallen victim to mainstream archaeology. In all seriousness, I greatly enjoy your channel and appreciate the care and detail you put into making these videos.
I do like the way you convey your thoughts. However, your video only expresses criticism, rather than just objectively commenting on the points as they’re brought forth. Included, are simple errors in dialogue that are irrelevant to the question at hand (pyramid vs pyramids), and assumptions (A box the size of a sarcophagus, must be a sarcophagus). Things like this give the impression that you’ve already made your mind up, and are trying to bring the viewer to your side, rather than objectively exploring the video with an open, educated mind.
@@sinisterknight9696 Isn't that like accusing someone of saying A when they actually said B, then equating that with failing to prove A? Our host here said that the subject of this video _claims_ there is no evidence for anyone being buried in any pyramid or that there is *any evidence that* the sarcophagi were used in burials. To debunk that, all one has to do is show that such evidence _does_ exist. That _is_ commenting on an issue brought forth. The issue is that someone claims that there is no evidence of A. Now, this may still leave room for the argument that because one is one here doesn't mean that's what it was used for there. But that isn't what was being discussed. The assertion was that there existed no such evidence & was proven incorrect.
You need to invite Chef Ramsey over, and he'll charge the countertops with energy. But cover your children's ears. I also work in a countertop / architectural millwork company.
Hero's steam engine was a novelty display. He created staggering special effects for Alexandrian temples and never developed that technology for any other use. It might never have occurred to him that he could use the pressurized steam for anything except spinning the boiler, and one large enough to (say) open huge temple doors using pulleys would have been difficult and impractical.
@@Trials_By_Errors- They had slaves. Unless a technology can make the slaves more efficient (such as, say, someone a couple millennia later inventing a machine to remove seeds from cotton), they wouldn't have been interested.
@@julietfischer5056 this argument doesn’t work. Automating a process that’s done by humans (who need to be purchased, fed, housed etc.) is always a net benefit
@@Daz912- Then where are all the machines the Greeks and Romans were capable of inventing? Where are all the machines Europeans were capable of inventing in later centuries? We don't have them because there were slaves and other laborers to do the grunt work, so the people in charge didn't see any reason to invent anything else.
35:20 Couldn't help but notice how those three arcs look like the three "handbags" at gobekli tepe... ancient advanced civilization CONFIRMED. Take that, Lincolnites! ETA: 😉🤣
Great archaeological debunking: I'd like to see a physicist or chemist's take on the bad science. A reason why pseudoscience is so successful is because it incorporates a lot of different disciplines, and most people only are familiar with a single discipline. So it's attacking truth at various angles: you don't know if it's all lies, and if one part is true and you don't know the rest, it's very convincing.
t he powerplant hypothesis is by far the best hypothesis made. Think anomolous makes a great video describing how this works. This guy is a moron and has absolutely no idea what he is talking about
I think anyone reasonable and open minded would see that egyptology has been claiming to understand other professions for decades. If you objectively look at any one aspect of the pyramids creation story you recognize that the current story falls apart under minor scrutiny. I believe that to have a video going into this other video looking to disprove it rather than understanding the written theory itself and reasonably approaching that is just as intellectually dishonest as stating that the great pyramids were built with copper chisels and saws and all of this work was done in under 80 years. It's madness to have such a close minded perspective, or should I say tribalism.
@williamclark7562 you either didn't watch the video or didn't pay attention. I am going to assume, like most idiots of your persuasion, you played the video but didn't actually take in what was shown and discussed and instead just assume you know better.
For my it's depressing that people can't get that "putting limestone bricks into pressure creates electricity" is just stupid as F**k. I mean, it's normal that quantum mechanics sound like sci-fi and you can convince people of false things that would involve quantum mechanics, but.... STONES IN A PILE = ELECTRICITY?!?! Are we serious?!?!
@@Sophisticlesenergy In short, your comment boils down to: "Anyone who uses facts, science and evidence to debunk my child-like fantasies is a close-minded tribalist!"
Great channel - so lucky to have found it. I really appreciate you citing actual sources and pointing people to relevant and updated research too. A great mix of entertaining and engaging content.
The sad thing is kids like my 18 year old son watch videos like the source video and believe it became the narrator speaks so matter of factly. I made a comment on unchartedx and a fan blasted me like he knew me and assumed I only believed what he called main stream view points. Its funny how some people believe so strongly in these theory's that are not backed up with any evidence. Most of the authors will freely admit their point of views are just thought experiments. But the readers think there conclusions are written in stone. ....but it literally is not. lol
It's all like a combination of cults and con artistry. Only the cult is the audience and the con artists are the people making the videos. It's incredibly depressing because these people just want to tear down real archaeology even as they profit from it.
You cant really blame anyone for believing any misinformation since the birth of the internet. its basically impossible to find videos or websites dedicated to actual Scholar studies made for the everyday person to underdstand and actually entertaining to try and take in. My entire time on the internet since the late 90s it has been impossible to come across the truth of any subject. Its been far easier to find everything else out their. Im the everyday highschool dropout because shit was boring as fuck to try and learn. so blame yourselves for making learing so bloody hard to do and creating the dumb cunts of the world like myself.
I noticed a trend in the narration that took the angle of a mocking tone of mainstream coupled with a 'do you believe' question. As though taking an emperors new clothes approach - are you silly enough to believe in the mainstream when all this weird supposition exists to say otherwise. . . Heck they may as well have said all the granite mountains they harvested the Pyramid rock from are mega batteries and using quantum alignment the pyramids were resonating and transmitting that power as a local substation. . . for. . reasons.??? Or maybe they had a water wheel or plank on the nile thus proving hydro power generators.??
@@mroldnewbie The pyramid is more likely sitting on top of a well, which is why some think it's a hydroelectric generator. Imo it might have served some spiritual significance with the idea that their soul would be ferried off in the steam of the well. Not that the well was used as a hydroelectric generator. Weirdly, the well was sealed with wood and pitch. Probably as part of a ritual to ensure the journey wouldn't be disturbed or something. My other best guess is that it was an active well that people used regularly, then it dried up and then the cap was put over the well. Because in the ancient and old days people treated a dry well as a bad omen. So sealing it was seen as sealing away bad fortune. If the well ran dry before the pyramids were built, than I would say the latter is more likely to be true rather than the former guess. And as this video points out, a lot of the Egyptian architecture seen today is built on top of older structures. So it's more likely that it was a well for some ancient village before the pyramids were made.
Another great video! I studied chemistry. I wish I had multiple life times to study other things. Your videos may be more informative and certainly more intertwining I believe because you have to debunk the weirdest idea. Thank you for your patience and knowledge!
Well I do have to admit that I did build an experimental pyramid from cardboard, placed a light bulb inside, lined it up with the relevant constellations and lo and behold, the light bulb switched on. The only additional step I had to take was plug it into a wall socket. 😉
To answer your question about capillary action. This is an interesting phenomenon, and even Einstein wrote a paper about it early in his career. There's no single answer to how high the water travels through a capillary tube. In general it's limited to one meter at best. Several factors affect this value including the water's density. The more dense it is, the lower the maximum height it can reach. GRANITE AS A CONDUCTOR: I tell everyone one this; "If you REALLY believe granite is such a good conductor try replacing the wiring in your house with granite and see how well it works." Copper, silver and gold ARE THE TOP THREE naturally occurring conductors. So, according to this video, which "conductor" did the Egyptians select GRANITE - LMAO!!!🤣 Another observation that is overlooked. Look at the diameter of the two copper tabs in the block of the queen's shaft. How much electricity could those conduct without melting? Compare them to the copper wires in your house. Let's just approximate. If each carried 40 amps of current @ 240 volts, that's approximately 9600 watts. The average horse power is 740 watts. That's about 13 horse power. So, they built this huge structure to generate the power 13 horses can do. That's NUT'S!!!😄 Quick FYI for you. Many materials that don't superconduct can be made to superconduct by changing its temperature, pressure, or both. In the case copper, silver, and gold; none of these can be made to superconduct regardless of temperature or pressure applied to it. GOOD WORK ON VIDEO. 👏👍 Yes, you should team with physicist and engineering friends to really show how dumb these conspiracists ideas are.
@@davidbodeker6752 It turns out that the capillaries in a tree are too wide to account for the transfer of water by capillary action. At best the water would rise only about a meter for most trees. Here's a short video that explains why some of these ideas don't account for the rise of water within a tree. The presenter in the video is a physicist. ruclips.net/video/BickMFHAZR0/видео.html Look at 02:22 into video. Thanks for your reply.
@Lynn Geek WOW THANKS 👍 Capillary action gets complicated doesn't it. They're just too many people out there who think they make scientific observations about the Egyptian pyramids and they don't have a clue in the world about what they're talking about. Dr. David Miano just did a video with a geologist about the Sphinx. If you haven't seen it check it out it's pretty interesting. The link is below and the geologist shows up about 30 minutes into the video. It's a long video. ruclips.net/video/KvF25GA-nKk/видео.html ALL THE BEST 😁
I’ve never heard so much rubbish as these ‘Giza power plant’ videos. Chris Dunn is the worst. He’s making a good living off a completely made up and unworkable theory.
24:34 after hearing a sequence of three “if” statements that lead with conjecture, I tend to involk the a personal rule of “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof”. I’m sure there a technical logic term for it. Thanks for putting these logical evaluation of theory videos out.
i'm not aware of a 'technical logic term', although he Principle of Sufficient reason might capture the sentiment. However! the phrase "extraordinary claims require extraordinary [evidence]" is colloquially known as the "Sagan standard" after Carl Sagan.
Honestly, the genuine debunking and good natured criticism on this channel is amazing. So often on RUclips it it about crushing peoples ideas, and never the Socratic method. It’s a breath of fresh air. Penn and Tellers Bullshit, while influential in debunking stuff, really actually set back how to change minds
Absolutely, I could not agree more. I would also like to add that the genuine level of thoughtful scholarship is very pleasing to hear as well. Also, I feel very much the same about Penn and Tellers bullshit!!! I found that show even getting things wrong and pushing a political agenda half the time. Like, _Guns are great (let's not talk about Australia)_ or _Taxation is theft!_ ... More reactionary than reasonable I found. Very disappointing.
Ancient power plants huh? So then the laws of physics and in particular those about electrical generation, storage and transmission were different than they are today. Or were those very ancient civilizations so advanced that our current knowledge is faulty? Build one working model of this magical power plant, made from stone. Then we can talk. Or show me one tool that can be powered by such technology that has been found. Ooh... You can hum and hear a resonance frequency inside you say? Then show me how that can do actual work. By the way... A battery run on creating electrical potential by chemistry is vastly different than something capable of power generation with amplification to "microwave" frequencies. You can make a crude battery with a pickle, after all! If vast amounts of practical electricity can be generated via piezo, it would be used today.
Explain to me, the vase, that uncharted put on youtube. Explain to me, how that vase, is perfect down, to a 1/1000 of an inch. In our days now, we cant do the same pression. And a side note. They did it, in granite.
My old college professor was quoted out of context by these guys for years. He was an ex-naval nuclear engineer working as an engineering professor. They proposed 1 specific question about if nuclear reactors had layers of shielding, in case a layer failed. Then asked if some specific tombs in a pyramid were also in a similar layer. His name was one their website for ~2 decades.
Ramp pump. 3 girdle stones in shaft 3 piston blocks. Missing its valves and water. Seen from phinx. Water was up to it's neck in early egyptian times. Sound propagating thru stone disturbing north south. Queen chamber separated -negative. Kings chamber + positive. Granite stacked up works as a flyback transformer. You put sand in a box. Frequency separated by grand gallery. No need for wires. High voltage low capacity. Tesla coil. Desinged and build closed up and working. No one got in our out. Untill earthquake about 1500 bc.
Stone north south arrangement. Agains earth north south. Importand for propagating sound thru stone. Making north south vibrate. And generate energy. Low voltage high capacity (our technology of the day) needs wires. Teslacoil goes thru air. This is high voltage low capacity.
The pyramids were hydrogen generators using Znamya Solarsail Spotlight/laser satellites as a power source to split the H2O into hydrogen. This guy is spreading mis disinformation. There were and still are copper wires in the great pyramid. Here is their self preservation motive for the families LIES. Every 13,000 years half the 26,000 year Precession/Great Year/Yuga cycle our solar system crosses over our galaxies electromagnetic/Gravitational plane/equator. (13,000 years ago, Younger Dryas, Gobekli tepe, Melt water pulse 1A/1B, Continental glaciers, Atlantis's etc etc) The galactic bulges rotation is approaching perihelion with our solar system as evidenced by magnetic north being at 23.7 degrees with the galactic bulges Electromagnetic/gravitational pull. The GALACTIC Milankovitch cycles cause our climate cycles. Precession/Great Year/Yugas crossing the galactic plane causes Continental glaciers with lower sea levels (Dwarka, Atlantis's) brought on by East to West Global Tsunami's (Gobekli tepe, Younger Dryas) that freeze into the continental glaciers every 13,000 years. Eccentricity with the galactic bulges 240,0000/120,000 year cycle regulates ice age/tropical age. With the rotation of the Galactic bulge regulating the intensity and depth of the Ice age/Tropical age every 120,000 years at either perihelion or aphelion. We are approaching perihelion with the galactic bulges rotation somewhere around 201,000 years moving towards the OMEGA perihelion with the galactic bulge. Obliquity/Magnetic north is how you know where we are reference the galactic bulge. Obliquity is also the cause of global warming as the galactic bulge is headed towards perihelion with our solar system. Covid1984 like CO2 is a LIE built upon an inconvenient truth. Covid being the baby Boomers turning into the Seniors Bust due to the usual suspects of seasonal Flu/Pneumonia and old age. The mask/Mark of the beast (No Buying or Selling) is just a pretext for the FINAL SOLUTION to the Goylim/Gentile problem. Jesus loved all races because there is only one race with only one minority. HUMAN race INDIVIDUAL human!
@@GregoryJByrne- If any of your astronomical blather were true, scientists would know it already. I'm an old fart. I learned about the existence of carbon dioxide when Nixon was POTUS. COVID is a coronavirus. It's the asshole cousin of the common cold. Influenza is a completely different virus.
This is far more interesting than generating electricity lmao. Truth is stranger than fiction. We’re so deep into modern life at this point that wrapping our mind around the idea of a machine to take your soul to the afterlife isnt even possible. But they believed in it so much that they spent all those man hours building them. Absolutely insane. Modern culture is what we need to break free of not modern science. The modern culture that tells us mushrooms are bad and coffee is good, and tries to sell you something shiney every ten minutes of the day. Thats what we need to break free from. Keep the science, burn the culture. Everyone needs to do a large dose of mushrooms.
10:55 I know it's probably the least damning evidence, but as a watchmaker, I can confirm he has no idea how any of it works. Quartz is used in wristwatches for accuracy due to its vibrations when current passes through it. The current is provided by a battery. Obviously. Some wristwatches use a rotating weight to either tighten the spring in mechanical movements (99% of the time, a rotor is used) or to charge the battery/capacitor in a quartz watch, the same way you would charge one of those manual flashlights. Shaking a quartz watch to make the quartz provide electricity is a ludicrous statement. But I guess it was obvious to many other people who aren't watchmakers since it's pretty common knowledge. I had to mention it regardless. Great video overall!
To clarify, quartz is, among a bunch of other compounds, piezoelectric. This means it can generate movement from applied electrical fields, but also generate electrical fields from applied mechanical stress, in a fairly linear symmetry. That's a true fact. The idea that a piece of unpurified and uncut quartz (like a building block of a pyramid) could do that, let alone generate amounts of electricity that Egyptians could make use of is ludicrous. That said, both aspects of piezoelectricity (though rarely specifically quartz) do see industrial use, since it can generate very consistently high current.
@@bigchungus6827 Piezoelectric? So like pickups on a acoustics. Egyptians clearly wanted amps for their 6-strings but couldn't make a solid body due to lack of wood.
Does it hold any water? Well, if the limestone is porous and capillarity works, the pyramid could hold some I guess... But wouldn't it be easier just to go down to the Nile and fetch some? I mean, the Egyptians had several kinds of pumps... Thanks for the nice work!
Indeed. It looks like the Great Pyramid had water, or some sort of liquid running though it, but same cannot be said of the other pyramids, or at least there is not hint of evidence of such for them.
@@whiteeagle6370 Yes the great pyramid sits on a perched aquifer , and ground water is found at rather shallow depths when it has been filled up by recent rains there. I imagine they had problems with the subterranean chamber that sits 90 feet below ground level filling up with water on occasion . Would it be a useful place to draw water from , and enough to build a pyramid shaped water pumping station ? Certainly not !!!
On top of responding to conspiracy theory lunatics in a fun, educational fashion, your videos also have a spicy ASMR soothingness. Thank you for your work.
Biggest argument I have for such crap ideas, ancient Egyptians had no need of energy. They needed their ACs? Televisions? Charge up their electric cars?
Yes there is no evidence of "energy" use to be had - anywhere. For me however the most compelling "absence" is = why do we not then see these supposed "power plants" everywhere else in the region???? After all a civilization harnessing energy would dominate the land compared to everyone else. Thus such a civilization were it real should have steamrolled over other lands - creating additional "power plants" as they went - such that we should see them everywhere throughout Africa/Asia/Europe.............but of course we don't. Also there were no patents back then while civilizations often copied from each other in time. Final thought. We have been using electricity since the late 19th Century. Within a short span of time we were able to create generators which are a fraction of the size of a pyramid - while today we can make them small enough for a single man to carry. So if generating power for any reasonable amount of time then surely smaller versions of these supposed "power plants" should be seen = but again absolutely nothing............nada. As with all things "alternative" this twaddle is more Hollywood than history. Enjoy your day folks. 🥱
I was fortunate in 1995 to spend 6 hours privately in the Great Pyramid. If it were a power generator, why wouldn’t the builders have created a decent toilet in the building? The air in the King’s Chamber isn’t ionized-it’s heavy with the smell of urine.
urine can store energy. phosphorus is in urine. that would explain why there arent any scorch marks from torches inside. also there where two copper metal tips on that one wall they sent a robot through back in 1999
No one was ever in the building untill collapse by earthquake demolisment by romans and ottomans. The urine you smell is less than 500 years old. But they had to remove a lot of sand... silicon +-4.
Point of fact: the heaviest coffin and lid at the Serapeum has a maximum possible mass of 65 tons total. SGD did the maths yesterday, and very conservatively in fact. :)
Yeah, and the Greeks knew about a rotating bulb powered by steam, and they knew that a turning screw could move water. Surely they had steam powered naval vessels roaring all over the Mediterranean. This is even more likely than Egyptian electricity. Still didn't happen.
I remember from my High School biology lessons that capillary attraction could raise water 33 feet in trees because that's what one atmosphere could be supported, and I guess the same applies to absorbent rocks. Transpiration is needed to raise it by suction any higher.
If the ancient Egyptians had the physics knowledge to generate electricity and practical uses for it, why would their "power plant" be such a kludgy Rube Goldberg construct that bears no resemblance to any other power plant? Given the know-how, the Egyptians could have constructed a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant and/or windmills much more easily, and generated far more electricity than could have been wrung out of a bit of piezoelectric effects in a gigantic stone building, if such would even have been noticeable. Plus, the CSP plant would have fit with their belief systems far better. "Hail Re, who gives us light by day and by night! By his power and generosity, do all the machines of the Two Lands run!" If you look at a modern CSP plant, with mirrors arranged around a central tower, it would be easy to imagine that tower as a hieroglyph-inscribed obelisk. So why wouldn't they have built their power plants that way instead?
They didn’t need to build a “pyramid” for energy as they had the capacity in other aspects, batteries and rudimentary solar that made small amounts of electricity. David is correct and no need for electricity for plating but there is published evidence showing they did use rudimentary batteries. No evidence so far of widespread usage other than electroplating and possible other one off or smaller applications. The pyramid is a showpiece. I’ve seen the theories that are interesting but there seems there is a huge lack of evidence as David stated.
@@floridaman4073 the thing you’re talking about, one small jar, probably wasn’t a battery… (There were four jars found, only one had the metal in it. Hell, one of them literally just had a scroll inside. How much literature do you carry in your batteries?) But more importantly, even if it was a battery for making very weak electric charges for some reason, it’s from a different culture, in a different place, _thousands of years_ after the great pyramid was built
One explanation I've heard for the light bulb theory is that there is not enough oxygen in the Egyptian tombs to support flame. The only problem with this is that the amount of oxygen required to support flame is 20.8% which is also the same amount required for breathing.
Yeah. And it's weird how air can get up a relatively short passage, but leave its oxygen behind. And how people manage to go caving, crawling through small tunnels in the rock, sometimes for A mile or more, yet none of them ever noticed that there's no oxygen down there...even though they often have gas monitors. And not a single caver in history was ever a smoker, and had a cheeky smoke down in some cave
I used to think ancient aliens were pretty stupid for prescribing cattle dung to heal lacerations, but if they were so stupid as to have to build a mountain of rock to build a power plant, my thoughts and dreams of advanced aliens have crumbled to dust. Also, I think it is just awesome how these aliens built a power plant in the middle of a graveyard with a grave in the middle of the pyramid. And how smart were these aliens to make a battery that puts out less than 4 volts. Takes real genius to come up with that kind of technology. 🤣
Lately, I've seen a lot of videos showing up on RUclips about the so-called Dendera "lights", but while all of them debunked the claim that these are giant Edison-style light bulbs, this is the first one that actually explained what they actually are aside from vague mentions of lotos-flowers and the clear depiction of a snake. Thank you for this clear and concise explanation of a contentious subject.
5000 years from now someone will be excavating & researching Disneyland saying “aaah yes, this was a temple... they came from all over to worship here...”
I like the diagram at around 3 minutes 45 - Someone used several books about basic physics and a bit of chemistry, mixed it together and wrote it into a sketch of the pyramid. Well, from an electrical engineering point of view, nothing of this makes any sense... It "looks like" the acid is meant to be an electrolyte, like in a battery. But to make that work one needs 2 different conductive electrodes (the battery parts conveniently left out). Zinc reacts with hydrochloric acid to form hydrogen - "hydrated zinc chloride solution" isn't a thing the way its written here. What they seem to refer to is zinc chloride hydrates, and have some use in galvanic processes and batteries. Question is, why they would put both solutions into one device? And any galvanic reaction would need conducting electrodes to interact with those substances, not to mention conductors to transport any generated electricity to somewhere where it's used for whatever purpose. In any case, even if we ignore the missing conductors and assume this to be some battery, we'd still face the issue that the produced voltage won't exceed 1 Volt. Regardless of the size of that battery, because 1 "reaction chamber" represents 1 single cell... Similar to poking an iron nail and a copper wire into an orange, creating some 1.2 Volt ;-) Next thing is, how would that "battery" get which part of the quartz (which is by no means refined in any way) to resonate on a microwave level... Without toasting everything around? Well, it can't. First there's nothing to get ant supposedly generated electricity to that chamber. Second there's nothing excreting any control whatsoever on said quartz parts, nothing to direct any supposed output anywhere and the underlying current that might have been created will be in milliampere regions. Using simple electro physics, power equals voltage multiplied with ampere. Assuming some 1 Volt and say 100 mA output would result in an output of whopping 0.1 Watt... That's marginal more than one single (!!!) LED. In terms of light, a candle flame will produce way more that that. That acoustic filter in the schematics will have only one purpose, looking interesting to someone who has no idea what the other stuff is supposed to mean. The same is true for that "resonator hall" and "feedback mechanism". I did like that part saying "microwave signal input". Why in heaven would you need that "microwave power output" to the left if you have one already - which is that so called microwave signal input"? To clarify, any electromagnetic wave consists of power and the frequency that power oscillates. You can't separate the "signal" from that power. This is true for all electromagnetic frequencies, be it radar, light, radio, x-ray or anything else. So, in a nutshell, for an electrician or electrical engineer, it takes less than 4 minutes to see why a Pyramid can't have been a powerplant. Let alone one to support some power grid or anything more than a single LED. And of course the flood of actual evidence to them being tombs really. Oh and regarding the Baghdad batteries... 1. it was a set of 4 and a single one somewhat North East. None of them had an iron rod in those cylinders, those "nails" were instead outside the jars holding them in place. # of the 4 were lying down and one standing, the single one from the other site was likely lying down too (seems the position was disturbed during excavation). No acid or actual traces of acid were ever found. But, IF one places the nail in the copper zylinder and poures acid in, you might get about 0.8 Volt out of that. Sadly, that theory doesn't hold water, since most jars had more than one, up to 10 copper zylinders inside, which makes that theory collapse. Besides, nothing has ever been found that could indicate any use of such "minimal" amounts of electricity at all. None, zero, nada ;-) Oh, "the materials we use today to make electrical wires", referring to their statement 12 mins 40 seconds into the video... Being an electrician I seriously wonder... All electrical wires we use are made from copper, some few from aluminium. During the great second war evem iron was used and some applications need gold or silver wires - never have I seen wiring made from granite or such. Them referring to "enhance conductivity" is only relevant if there were any electricity in the first place. You know, gold is a superior conductor, but that doesn't make your jewelry box a power plant. 15 minutes in, a capacitor is NOT a battery. In fact they are very different things. Also, a battery generally, has 2 electrodes, which are not necessarily the same material, and some electrolyte, often an acid. A capacitor is, essentially, 2 plates of a conductor, placed opposite each other and divided by a layer of insulation. Those 2 plates also don't necessarily have to be the same material. A battery generates power due to chemical reaction, a capacitor can hold a charge between those 2 plates, when it's been exposed to such a charge beforehand. The current delivered by a capacitor is generally rather low. So what part of such a sarcophagus is which plate and what part is the insulation layer? What part is the contact which connects it to any type of circuit? Where are said circuits? Where are the devices driven by any imaginary generated electric charge? 15 mins 15 seconds in, that sarcophagus isn't cracked, one can clearly see the blade went off course during cutting. Furthermore, a "crack" doesn't interrupt an electromagnetic field. In fact, as stated before, a capacitor needs a layer of insulation between its plates. If they came in contact they would simply cause a short circuit. 23 mins 50 secs, gold is a good conductor, but it isn't a superconductor. Superconductors are on an entirely different level and usually nalso need very low temparatures (like liquid nitrogen or lower). Any gold cover stone would not have made any conductivity into the ionosphere (why they chose that part of the atmosphere is an enigma to me). That capstone could only conduct what it gets from its wiring from somewhere below... wait, there's still no trace of any wiring, right? 26 mins, like so many conspiracies, they love the word frequency. I guess because frequency by itself says exactly nothing. A frequency describes the repitition of something within a certain timeframe, nothing more. Like 60 beats of the heart in a minute, like 52 saturdays in a year, like 50 repititions of a full sinewave of +240 volt to -240 volt within a second (like European power grid on one phase), like 1 dentist visit per year etc. They don't specify anything about the "magic frequency" they talk about, neither voltage, nor timeframe, nor how often repeated in said frame, not if it's electric at all or electromagnetic (though any electric frequency will cause a certain electromagnetic frequency but not necessarily the other way around)... 27 mins in, no, these devices clearlt are NOT light sources. Pretty clear actually. he most used argument for them being light sources is the thing holding the big end up. Many draw a similarity to wire insulators on powerplants. Sadly, those insulators have one specific reason to look like that. They are used on the outside of powerplants (you may see some inside too, but only because it's cheaper to have one kind made for both uses). The rib like structure gives it away. This structure is often associated direcly with electricity. Fact is, however, those ribs are designed to break waterflow in strong rain, so no electricity can creep towards the other end of those insulators. Any setting those supposed lightbulbs could have been used wouldn't have been anywhere close to strong rain falls (which are so common there anyway ;-) ) In fact, atmospheric differences would wreak havoc with any of their proposed ideas anyway. 35 mins 20 secs, well, to transfer electromagnetic energy towards the ssy, they could have done with way less effort. Like with a simple torch. Most conspiracies seem to ignore the fact that simple visible light is actually part of the electromagnetic spectrum. So, a torch with a visible flame actively emits electromagnetic radiation we call "light". Between infrared and ultra violet. I'm still baffled how little those guys know about actual physics.
As a bonus, the diagram is of Great pyramid, not a single one other has the same schematic, in fact most of them aren't hollow inside and only have chambers in the sand underneath, so the whole structure becomes irrelevant as they were literally just rocks in a pyramid shape and the tomb was outside. The granite in Great Hall? Not a think in any others. The tunnels to outside? Also not a thing. There are more than 100 pyramids so even IF that schematic explained one, they'd need to go over for more than a hundred after.
What I find far more interesting and intriguing is if there are more chambers and passages that have yet never been discovered. I believe there are some recent claims there might be... That building is so massive it almost seems ridiculous to think that the known chambers are the only ones in it...
Hawas doesn't allow people to go into newly discovered areas until he can go in privately and steal everything inside, then he reseals the place after hes cleaned everything valueable out... Then he calls in crews and the media to explore it for the 'first time' and the rooms turn out to be empty. Its amazing how people would go through all that trouble to make a stone room and seal it off to keep thieves out and leave these rooms completely empty 🧐🤔
Hawas doesn't allow people to go into newly discovered areas until he can go in privately and steal everything inside, then he reseals the place after hes cleaned everything valueable out... Then he calls in crews and the media to explore it for the 'first time' and the rooms turn out to be empty. Its amazing how people would go through all that trouble to make a stone room and seal it off to keep thieves out and leave these rooms completely empty 🧐🤔
Has anyone in ancient times visiting Egypt written about this "magical" power on display? I haven't heard of any. We already have a hard time teaching kids today. The last thing we need are fringe suggestions that have no basis in fact but presented as such.
What always fascinates me about people who go on and on about the Pyramids, is that they seem fixated on the Great Pyramids of Giza (which are unquestionably marvels of human engineering), but they tend to ignore the plethora of crap pyramids that are also dotted around the region. The bent ones, the half built ones, the collapsed ones. The ones that show an obvious progression and experimentation of building techniques and trial and error over the years, decades and centuries. So, if they were built by ancient Atlanteans, they were the Atlanteans who were, "Well, we saw this pyramids back in the good old days, but we haven't got a clue how they built them, so we'll have to start from scratch."
Hey most of them aren't crap, it's just that apart from the Giza ones, the ones that are most famous are those that stand out. Djoser's first pyramid is already amazing, as it has actual chambers and tunnels inside (most, apart from the Great one, don't)... but yeah it's also my argument: LOOK AT OTHER PYRAMIDS! Hell, go to Google maps, or use a flight sim to just go up the Nile and see that after Giza, there's Dahshur and Saqqara necropolises. If you can't even that, play Discovery Tour in Assassin's Creed Origins, it has so many to explore! There's even a quest in the Bent pyramid lol.
As a Bulgarian, we do not claim Dimitrov. Thanks for these videos, it makes me extremely angry when people spread this type of misinformation and total fantasy. It's so disrespectful to all researchers and hard-working professional archeologists and historians spanning over decades of research. It really makes me sad and angry that people try to discredit hard work and facts with perverted fantasies of our history just because it tickles their small brains.
More to the point = why were the pyramids so large........ Moral: the electric generator was developed in the mid-19th Century. Within a single century however we were building generators a fraction of the size capable of generating higher amounts of power than the original models which filled the floor of a small building. Today we have portable generators a single man can carry. So why after a century did we not then see similarly reduced in size "pyramid generators"??? It is instinctive to human progress to be constantly looking for ways to improve upon our technology after all. So we do not see pyramids all over as you alluded to + we do not see any progression in the technology + we do not see evidence of devices such "power plants" supposedly powered. What we do see = are a bunch of LAHT muppets with clearly overactive imaginations and a dearth of critical thinking skills.... 🤭🤷
It’s possible that what was receiving the power is no longer on earth. It either left, and went away from the planet, or it stayed on Earth and has totally disintegrated over the thousands of years. We have a civilization ending cataclysm tomorrow, within 300 years or less nothing, I mean nothing is left to find. Maybe just the pyramids, again.
They powered nothing of course since they were not power plants. As an aside. Any civilization capable of harnessing energy at that time should have swept all before them. Accordingly we should therefore see these supposed "power plants" spread across the continent - and beyond = but of course we do not because it is not real....... 🤨
FINALLY!!! Someone else went down the, "ancient electrical tech road"! Current desire/demand for electeic power has warped simple thinking into imagining EVERY human has ALWAYS needed, wanted or desired unlimited electrical power. I submit, ancient egyptians would have NO understanding or desire for unlimited 115v, ac!!! Water was probably always on the top of their small lists...
The storytelling of the power plant hypothesis is so chaotic and vague, I suppose he has no clue at all but is convinced mentioning as many different subjects at all would prove his scientific method and insight.
now we need him to take a very close look at Graham Hancock cause that man is gathering quite a bit of inertia in pseudoarcheology circles that greatly affect the public awareness. It's time to get down to Earth and nonsense to be treated as nonsense.
this guy has not debunked anything, he hasnt done any reasearch to understand this. There is a shitload of salt in the bottom chamber. think anomolous does a vidoe on this and actually explain is rather than some dude being annoying and makign statements that show how little he understands about this. This guy makes me cringe.
It's amazing during these times many fall for this scam making the people who write such books rich laughing on the way to the bank. What's really amazing is this video has only 3.1K likes at the time I watch it, which has been up since Sept. 2019. There are a number of videos recently uploaded claiming the GREAT PYRAMID as Power Plants with much more likes than this video! Proving there are more idiots in the world than you think. TU for the video and I will check out other videos you produced!
Thanks so much for this - and all of the Myths of Ancient History videos! (Heard about you from the Stefan Milo interview.) I saw "Chariots of the Gods" at a Saturday matinee as a kid and just loved the speculative history experience - though, somehow, even as a 10- or 12-year-old I never Believed it.... Why has it taken 40+ years for me to hear and see such clear and concise scientific rebuttal of that kind of entertaining nonsense??! Loved the translations from the Dendera complex! Looking forward to more - and More - and MORE......! Ah, science.
On the question about capillary action 21:25 It is feasible that stresses induced by capillary action might produce microscopic amounts of static electricity. However, it would be a once only effect. To get more you would have to remove the water and let it leak in again. It is a non-starter for useful, continuous power. However, rocks like granite are almost perfect insulators so it would go nowhere. The statements at 22:30 about magnification are just downright lies. The statement about a gold cap conducting electricity up to the ionosphere is equally non-scientific babble. My assessment overall is that this is all rubbish and almost certainly deliberate lying about every detail.
18:31 - 19:00 really cracked me up... I started imagining someone selling copper wires on the black market, claiming it's ancient wires from the Pyramid.... 😂
Zahi Hawass was Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs twice, but since is reduced to selling pyramid copper to finance his gacha game addiction... Hey, Ozymandias needs NP8 for all appends now!
Water in the pyramids...caves are formed by a chemical reaction between limestone and water. Capillary action or no, you can forget any useful amount of water mixing with the limestone for any length of time. You can't have both joints and seams measured in tenths or hundredths of inches AND water flowing through, the limestone would turn into the stone equivalent of Swiss Cheese.
Thank you for the video! Although I sometimes watch programs or videos on "possible" ancient "high technology" solely as an amusing diversion 🤣 I appreciate someone like you who knows what they're talking about and puts in the time and effort to debunk the junk for us lay people!
21:38 That's not physics, although physicists could probably answer you question, but that's actually geology. At least in the Netherlands you have to know capilar working for your high schoold end exam (Aardrijkskunde eindexamen VWO) (btw, after a google search, I learned it's actually a thing in physics as well) I'm just a high schooler, scientists can give a better answer, but here's my explanation; capillary action, as far as I'm concerned, happens when there's too much water in layer two (layer one being the ground, layer two being the 'geological layer' under layer one which holds the ground/soil water). The excess water will then go to the surface because of capillary action. It's one of the hardest concepts to get your head around in geology so I'm not suprised they did it wrong and I'm not even sure if they did. But capillary action in geology is mostly used in the context of desertification and desiccation and not in the context of this 'underground river'-ish thingy they seem to be going for. When the water in a layer two is 'normal' (there is not excess water) capillary action doesn't occur. One thing I can be certain of though, the smaller the particals/stones, the stronger capillary action. The smaller the particals and the smaller the openings inbetween them, the strong this force is, that's what I learned in class. And now, which 'stones' are bigger; sand or limestones? How they know the term capillary action and can still claim that the water will go into the pyramid structure (being limestone with big openings and thus no capillary working force whatsover) is beyond me..... PLEASE anyone with more knowledge correctly if I'm wrong. That's gonna save me some marks on my final exam Geology. ;)
Har Sema Tawy is fake news. Ignore that ancient inscription!Them's lightbulbs! It's refreshing to hear all your logic. Thanks for putting it out there.
i love your work Important, enlightening, interesting and highly sensible. Your opinion and scientific approach is very important and always gives me the backing of reason, which seems more important to me than ever today. Thanks alot! I hope you never stop and don't get discouraged. Even if facts and nonsense are one against a thousand on the battlefield.
I've watched this three times now. I'm pretty well versed in physics and I have no clue how they think this power generator or battery would function. It's like they've just mish mashed together a bunch of obscure electro-magnetic phenomena together and hoping that no one on their audience actually understands physics... Also, it's always fucking Tesla...
What am excellent channel. I was so excited believing all of the alternative ancient history finds. Really enjoyed that while it lasted but I am so much better off finding your channel. Many thanks!!!!
You dont know there purpose either. No one really does. If you compress quarts, it generates a voltage. If you apply a voltage to quarts it occilates. Your smug dude
What do you think about the block adjacent to the sarcophagus in the kings chamber? The one that is non load bearing and looks like the sarcophagus was pushed through the gap?
He will not respond to anyone challenging his points he states that “the limestone is very strong and was 234ft thick” when the question asked about how would they have cut it to perfect angles on the pyramid and the like
If absorption works to raise water into the pyramid, what works to keep underground rivers underground? A lack of a pyramid? Why do people bother to dig wells into tough bedrock when they can just build pyramids?
Says it could be capacitor and doesn’t actually show why it could be. I do not see two plates with a gap between them so somebody explain how that could be even considered remotely like a capacitor. Don’t even get me started with the water pressure but now it’s too late. Have they heard of hydrostatic pressure? ρgh or ρgz? This means bc the granite is at e top if you fill the chamber with water no pressure will be experienced by the ceiling other than some of it as you start to move downward. It would make more sense if they had granite at the bottom then hand a massive tunnel which goes from the surface of the granite upward filled with water. But no this person obviously hasn’t take fluid mechanics, or any sort of physics. Additionally the piezoelectric effect is experienced by polarized ferroelectric ceramics. Good job on them recognizing stone as a ceramic but it is not ferromagnetic and it is now polarized even tho it contains quartz. So bad job you get an F in my course try again
Thank you for debunking this nonsense, what do you think about the theory that the sphinx is older than currently believed based on water erosion, a la Graham Hancock, sorry if you've already answered this new to your channel. Great content!
Lol. Your video should just be a single frame that says "No." The pyramid's being power plants is one of those absurd theories not even worth addressing. But props for at least addressing the claim serious XD 11:13 "Increases the conductivity of electricity" what? That's literally jibberish.
Any electrical engineer can tell you that some amounts of electricity can be transmitted without wires, (that's how a crystal radio works), but metallic wires do a MUCH better job, because they have less electrical resistance that air. Tesla was a smart guy, but his research into transmitting usable amounts of electricity through the air over long distances was a waste of time. And even if usable amounts of "free" electricity could be delivered in that way, who is paying for the cost of generating the electricity in the first place? The fact is, usable amounts of wireless electricity is a "pipe dream". And no, rocks like sandstone and granite don't generate or conduct electricity. The woman who narrated this video has a very pleasant voice, but if she believes ANY of this BS, she is as clueless as one of the numerous stones that make up the Great Pyramid.
The "Pyramid powerplant" hyphotesis makes even less sense when you realize that the supposed hyper-advanced civilization could have just made a hydroeletric plant in Aswan instead, like the one we have since the 70s.
Yes. Consider our harnessing of electricity for use. In the 19th Century the first electrical generators were large, cumbersome machines. Yet within a few decades we were able to construct smaller generators = which in time got smaller and smaller/more efficient. So as you say a civilization supposedly capable of harnessing energy should within a short period of application be able to improve upon the process to streamline it. We should therefore see these "power plants" all over - which of course we do not - as well as see improved versions of the same to say nothing of alternative generation methods as you alluded to + items to use said energy. Moral: this entire narrative is reminiscent of a Tranq enhanced crack pipe dream. People whose imaginations have clearly gotten the better of them........ 🤦🤷
Having watched this video, and read the book by Christopher Dunne, I find my vocabulary is insufficient to find enough variations on the word "ridiculous". To work through and debunk all of the errors in logic, science and engineering contained in this ridiculous scam would end up with a book with more pages than the Encyclopedia Britannica. The scary thing is that this idiocy still persists and is taken seriously in some quarters.
Excellent description and analysis of Dendera temple, thanks. I’d love to see your analysis of how and why the ptolemies collected the remaining priestly records and practices to preserve ancient Egyptian achievements in astronomical observation for all eternity
35:29. Thank you for mentioning this question. It's what I asked my friend who believes these power plant theories. What did they do with all this electricity once they generated and transmitted it? He literally refused to answer or even acknowledge my question.
@@St0neByte Their tools and ships...that were mere handhammers, chisels, saws, all powered by hand...and ships powered by sails. Why do ALL drawings of tools and ships show simples tools and normal ships? Why do all egyptian hammers and chisels we find are normal hammers and chisels? Why do all egyptian ships we find are normal and have no electric engines, batteries, etc. Id love to see your proof
Thank you for adding a sound historical evidence based context to these types of videos, they keep my imagination from taking me all the way into the "New Age Movement" blackhole :D
Interesting information about the lotus flower motifs in ancient Egpytian relics and art, hadn't heard anything about that at all even when another video explained the fallacy of the Dendara 'light' bollocks.
Thanks for the video! I'm just very surprised that some"shafts" under the great pyramid are unexplored! That sounds like something super exciting to do.
Fantastic video World Of Antiquity, I am so glad I just discovered your youtube channel! PLEASE become the "Academic" version of Brien Forester and explore all the worlds ancient sites with high definition video while explaining to us the actual peer reviewed science of these sites! For far to long you tube has been dominated by non academics spreading nonsense by "intentionally or unintentionally" leaving out VERY IMPORTANT facts when showing these sites. Your example of the "light balb hieroglyphs" and the corresponding hieroglyphs directly above them being a PERFECT EXAMPLE!
@@WorldofAntiquity Here is one of my other new favorite ancient history RUclips Channels. They are trying to recreate accurate CGI animations of these people's world so we can see them in all their glory. Please take a look at their work and help them out if they get anything wrong. I really want them to be accurate and successful because their work "bringing the ancient past to life in motion and color" will really help bring new and young people into this field. I'm sure they will gladly collaborate with a qualified student of ancient history such as yourself! ruclips.net/video/57gaB1VtJiQ/видео.html The biggest misconception the laymen have of the old world was that these people were to unorganized, or too stupid to build these amazing structures. They dont know the real ancient lost tools these people had access too that were lost during the dark age and then rediscovered 15th century like the dread mill crane, the capstan, the newly verified sand and water sled method, not just sled and rollers. They also dont know the huge amount of people and lengthy "decades to centuries" construction times involved in these massive national construction projects that modern nations like America has not done since the early 1900s like the golden gate bridge and the hover damn.
@@livefire666 Well, some experiments are closer than others, but often they are just trying to show what can be done with the means available to the ancients, rather than the exact method.
As someone very familure with electronics, and electricity, and a pretty good founding in physics, I can say that everything in the subject video is total word salad, devoid of any meaning at all.
Remind me to thank Atun-Shei Films for leading me to your channel. Your videos are a lot like the 3-hour-long documentary by Chris White Ancient Aliens Debunked, which has more views on RUclips than all the official Ancient Aliens footage on the "History" Channel's official RUclips channel, which really gives me some hope.
I'm a recent subscriber and find your content rivetting. Having trained to be a Classical Archaeologist in the early '80s, and eventual professor, I understand and appreciate your academic approach. The field disappointed me but the interest survives. Wondering how you approach a few common problems: 1) Since there are no writings from the time of Khufu and virtually everything you stated in backing up your premise came long after his 26 year reign, mostly in the 3rd century BCE, how would you counter that the Great Pyramid may have already been in existence and Khufu decided it would be a great monument to be buried in, thus starting a pyramid burial tradition? 2) Is it possible that Imhotep's step pyramid and works like the Bent Pyramid were attempts to recreate the aready existing pyramid from the more familiar mastabas? (Huge technology jump from clay brick tiered mastabas to limestone and granite casing in a hundred years after a series of flops) 3) And could that possibly have begun the tradition that the sarcophagi were designed to hold mummified corpses? The first human remains in one were dated to less than a hundred years earlier. (Not sure how interior square edges are cut with stone hammers) Doesn't mummification also defeat the purpose of a "flesh eating" box? Love to have a discussion...
Hi Mark. Off the top of my head, here are my thoughts: 1) There are writings from the time of Khufu. Not many. But the Diary of Merer is certainly pertinent, and so is the graffiti inside the pyramid. Check out my True Purpose of the Pyramids video. 2) I think it is more likely that the Step Pyramid and Bent Pyramid were beginner steps toward a true pyramid. I don't think it is a huge technology jump from the Red Pyramid to the Great Pyramid. 3) Again, I think my True Purpose of the Pyramids video might add some more perspective to all of this.
Maybe when pyramid was done and completed, the outside of pyramid reflected sun heat energy to top of pyramid cap. This might create heat pressure exchange like Stirling engine 🤔. The pyramid tunnels pressure might of been constantly contracting and expanding on the inside???
Thank you for this video. I know someone who is interested in physics but is doing self study and has fallen down the wrong path. He believes that the pyramids were some kind of battery or something...
Piezoelectric characteristics aid ionic and static properties but these are not likely to do more than a few visible spark tricks. The argument for the lowest chamber being a ram pump is extremely strong, given we know there was a water reservoir behind the plateau and a retaining wall around it. This explains a lot about the base of the structure. But the upper part at Queen's Chamber and above seem to be motivated differently and I'd postulate medical purposes before power plants.
The disappearance of ancient copper wires implies the existence of ancient tweakers.
By the great sun god Horus, i am tweaking off that laced myrrh cart
As stated at 18:33 the pyramids were robbed to finance Zahi Hawass gacha game addition.
I think we have stumbled on the perfect insult! "Your name is perfect as Upu. Your face is that of a toad." Who knew the Egyptians had such an advanced insult technology? A useful tool when arguing with proponents of ancient Egyptian light bulbs.
Throwing shade is as old as language.
With burns like that, they didn't need electricity for power.
I asked my contractor how much energy my new granite countertops will generate, and he had no idea what I was talking about. Clearly he has fallen victim to mainstream archaeology.
In all seriousness, I greatly enjoy your channel and appreciate the care and detail you put into making these videos.
I asked someone to show me proof how they could send me a text message without wiring. He had no proof the message was sent. I didn't see any wires
Ask him for a hand crafted one 'made with copper tools' thats accurate to within 1/20000th of an inch
I do like the way you convey your thoughts. However, your video only expresses criticism, rather than just objectively commenting on the points as they’re brought forth. Included, are simple errors in dialogue that are irrelevant to the question at hand (pyramid vs pyramids), and assumptions (A box the size of a sarcophagus, must be a sarcophagus). Things like this give the impression that you’ve already made your mind up, and are trying to bring the viewer to your side, rather than objectively exploring the video with an open, educated mind.
@@sinisterknight9696 Isn't that like accusing someone of saying A when they actually said B, then equating that with failing to prove A?
Our host here said that the subject of this video _claims_ there is no evidence for anyone being buried in any pyramid or that there is *any evidence that* the sarcophagi were used in burials. To debunk that, all one has to do is show that such evidence _does_ exist. That _is_ commenting on an issue brought forth.
The issue is that someone claims that there is no evidence of A. Now, this may still leave room for the argument that because one is one here doesn't mean that's what it was used for there. But that isn't what was being discussed. The assertion was that there existed no such evidence & was proven incorrect.
You need to invite Chef Ramsey over, and he'll charge the countertops with energy.
But cover your children's ears.
I also work in a countertop / architectural millwork company.
Hero's steam engine was a novelty display. He created staggering special effects for Alexandrian temples and never developed that technology for any other use. It might never have occurred to him that he could use the pressurized steam for anything except spinning the boiler, and one large enough to (say) open huge temple doors using pulleys would have been difficult and impractical.
Roman State didn't want or needed Engines. They messed Up😭😭.
@@Trials_By_Errors- They had slaves. Unless a technology can make the slaves more efficient (such as, say, someone a couple millennia later inventing a machine to remove seeds from cotton), they wouldn't have been interested.
@@julietfischer5056 I know for a fact the Romans would’ve loved the Ford F-150 😢
@@julietfischer5056 this argument doesn’t work. Automating a process that’s done by humans (who need to be purchased, fed, housed etc.) is always a net benefit
@@Daz912- Then where are all the machines the Greeks and Romans were capable of inventing? Where are all the machines Europeans were capable of inventing in later centuries? We don't have them because there were slaves and other laborers to do the grunt work, so the people in charge didn't see any reason to invent anything else.
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Couldn't help but notice how those three arcs look like the three "handbags" at gobekli tepe... ancient advanced civilization CONFIRMED.
Take that, Lincolnites!
ETA: 😉🤣
Great archaeological debunking: I'd like to see a physicist or chemist's take on the bad science. A reason why pseudoscience is so successful is because it incorporates a lot of different disciplines, and most people only are familiar with a single discipline. So it's attacking truth at various angles: you don't know if it's all lies, and if one part is true and you don't know the rest, it's very convincing.
t he powerplant hypothesis is by far the best hypothesis made. Think anomolous makes a great video describing how this works. This guy is a moron and has absolutely no idea what he is talking about
I think anyone reasonable and open minded would see that egyptology has been claiming to understand other professions for decades. If you objectively look at any one aspect of the pyramids creation story you recognize that the current story falls apart under minor scrutiny.
I believe that to have a video going into this other video looking to disprove it rather than understanding the written theory itself and reasonably approaching that is just as intellectually dishonest as stating that the great pyramids were built with copper chisels and saws and all of this work was done in under 80 years.
It's madness to have such a close minded perspective, or should I say tribalism.
@williamclark7562 you either didn't watch the video or didn't pay attention.
I am going to assume, like most idiots of your persuasion, you played the video but didn't actually take in what was shown and discussed and instead just assume you know better.
For my it's depressing that people can't get that "putting limestone bricks into pressure creates electricity" is just stupid as F**k.
I mean, it's normal that quantum mechanics sound like sci-fi and you can convince people of false things that would involve quantum mechanics, but.... STONES IN A PILE = ELECTRICITY?!?! Are we serious?!?!
@@Sophisticlesenergy In short, your comment boils down to: "Anyone who uses facts, science and evidence to debunk my child-like fantasies is a close-minded tribalist!"
Great channel - so lucky to have found it. I really appreciate you citing actual sources and pointing people to relevant and updated research too. A great mix of entertaining and engaging content.
The sad thing is kids like my 18 year old son watch videos like the source video and believe it became the narrator speaks so matter of factly.
I made a comment on unchartedx and a fan blasted me like he knew me and assumed I only believed what he called main stream view points. Its funny how some people believe so strongly in these theory's that are not backed up with any evidence. Most of the authors will freely admit their point of views are just thought experiments. But the readers think there conclusions are written in stone. ....but it literally is not. lol
It's all like a combination of cults and con artistry.
Only the cult is the audience and the con artists are the people making the videos.
It's incredibly depressing because these people just want to tear down real archaeology even as they profit from it.
You cant really blame anyone for believing any misinformation since the birth of the internet. its basically impossible to find videos or websites dedicated to actual Scholar studies made for the everyday person to underdstand and actually entertaining to try and take in. My entire time on the internet since the late 90s it has been impossible to come across the truth of any subject. Its been far easier to find everything else out their. Im the everyday highschool dropout because shit was boring as fuck to try and learn. so blame yourselves for making learing so bloody hard to do and creating the dumb cunts of the world like myself.
When did "mainstream" become a bad word? I think it's more about the cachet of not being mainstream than it's anything to do with facts.
I noticed a trend in the narration that took the angle of a mocking tone of mainstream coupled with a 'do you believe' question. As though taking an emperors new clothes approach - are you silly enough to believe in the mainstream when all this weird supposition exists to say otherwise. . . Heck they may as well have said all the granite mountains they harvested the Pyramid rock from are mega batteries and using quantum alignment the pyramids were resonating and transmitting that power as a local substation. . . for. . reasons.??? Or maybe they had a water wheel or plank on the nile thus proving hydro power generators.??
@@mroldnewbie The pyramid is more likely sitting on top of a well, which is why some think it's a hydroelectric generator. Imo it might have served some spiritual significance with the idea that their soul would be ferried off in the steam of the well. Not that the well was used as a hydroelectric generator. Weirdly, the well was sealed with wood and pitch. Probably as part of a ritual to ensure the journey wouldn't be disturbed or something. My other best guess is that it was an active well that people used regularly, then it dried up and then the cap was put over the well. Because in the ancient and old days people treated a dry well as a bad omen. So sealing it was seen as sealing away bad fortune. If the well ran dry before the pyramids were built, than I would say the latter is more likely to be true rather than the former guess. And as this video points out, a lot of the Egyptian architecture seen today is built on top of older structures. So it's more likely that it was a well for some ancient village before the pyramids were made.
Another great video! I studied chemistry. I wish I had multiple life times to study other things. Your videos may be more informative and certainly more intertwining I believe because you have to debunk the weirdest idea. Thank you for your patience and knowledge!
Well I do have to admit that I did build an experimental pyramid from cardboard, placed a light bulb inside, lined it up with the relevant constellations and lo and behold, the light bulb switched on. The only additional step I had to take was plug it into a wall socket. 😉
Mine comes on when the alignment is wrong. Working to fix it
So how many mummified Egyptian kings does it take to screw one of those in?
@@lostpony4885 don't give up. You're on the cusp of a breakthrough
Can you share the schematic's? 😉
@@Iammrspickley Lol. Very funny my friend. 😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
To answer your question about capillary action. This is an interesting phenomenon, and even Einstein wrote a paper about it early in his career. There's no single answer to how high the water travels through a capillary tube. In general it's limited to one meter at best. Several factors affect this value including the water's density. The more dense it is, the lower the maximum height it can reach.
GRANITE AS A CONDUCTOR:
I tell everyone one this; "If you REALLY believe granite is such a good conductor try replacing the wiring in your house with granite and see how well it works." Copper, silver and gold ARE THE TOP THREE naturally occurring conductors. So, according to this video, which "conductor" did the Egyptians select GRANITE - LMAO!!!🤣 Another observation that is overlooked. Look at the diameter of the two copper tabs in the block of the queen's shaft. How much electricity could those conduct without melting? Compare them to the copper wires in your house. Let's just approximate. If each carried 40 amps of current @ 240 volts, that's approximately 9600 watts. The average horse power is 740 watts. That's about 13 horse power. So, they built this huge structure to generate the power 13 horses can do. That's NUT'S!!!😄
Quick FYI for you. Many materials that don't superconduct can be made to superconduct by changing its temperature, pressure, or both. In the case copper, silver, and gold; none of these can be made to superconduct regardless of temperature or pressure applied to it.
GOOD WORK ON VIDEO. 👏👍
Yes, you should team with physicist and engineering friends to really show how dumb these conspiracists ideas are.
Great comment
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THANKS 😁
Capillary action raises water and nutrients to the tips of the tallest trees, up to 100m.
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It turns out that the capillaries in a tree are too wide to account for the transfer of water by capillary action. At best the water would rise only about a meter for most trees. Here's a short video that explains why some of these ideas don't account for the rise of water within a tree. The presenter in the video is a physicist.
ruclips.net/video/BickMFHAZR0/видео.html
Look at 02:22 into video.
Thanks for your reply.
@Lynn Geek
WOW THANKS 👍 Capillary action gets complicated doesn't it. They're just too many people out there who think they make scientific observations about the Egyptian pyramids and they don't have a clue in the world about what they're talking about. Dr. David Miano just did a video with a geologist about the Sphinx. If you haven't seen it check it out it's pretty interesting. The link is below and the geologist shows up about 30 minutes into the video. It's a long video.
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ALL THE BEST 😁
Thank you for doing these debunking videos. There's far to many charlatans on RUclips producing content just to get clicks and ad revenue.
The debunkers can be debunked also.
You consider this a "debunking" video?
That's hilarious!!!
I'll take an engineer's word over this guy....
@@scottbreseke716 haven't seen that yet soooo....
@@alanlloyd9986 even an engineer with financial incentive to push a theory? Because all engineers are never wrong and always honest. Ok dude.
I bet you would do the same for the ad revenue that comes with tens of millions of views. I would.
I’ve never heard so much rubbish as these ‘Giza power plant’ videos. Chris Dunn is the worst. He’s making a good living off a completely made up and unworkable theory.
24:34 after hearing a sequence of three “if” statements that lead with conjecture, I tend to involk the a personal rule of “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof”. I’m sure there a technical logic term for it. Thanks for putting these logical evaluation of theory videos out.
i'm not aware of a 'technical logic term', although he Principle of Sufficient reason might capture the sentiment. However! the phrase "extraordinary claims require extraordinary [evidence]" is colloquially known as the "Sagan standard" after Carl Sagan.
I think it’s called the “Sagan Rule” since it’s based on a quote by Carl Sagan.
Too many consecutive “if” statements triggers my BS alarm.
Honestly, the genuine debunking and good natured criticism on this channel is amazing. So often on RUclips it it about crushing peoples ideas, and never the Socratic method. It’s a breath of fresh air. Penn and Tellers Bullshit, while influential in debunking stuff, really actually set back how to change minds
Thank you. I am happy to hear you enjoy it!
Agreed. You are exercising criticism is an effective way. I often find “debunkers” to be equally misleading and inflammatory.
Absolutely, I could not agree more. I would also like to add that the genuine level of thoughtful scholarship is very pleasing to hear as well.
Also, I feel very much the same about Penn and Tellers bullshit!!! I found that show even getting things wrong and pushing a political agenda half the time. Like, _Guns are great (let's not talk about Australia)_ or _Taxation is theft!_ ... More reactionary than reasonable I found. Very disappointing.
Ancient power plants huh? So then the laws of physics and in particular those about electrical generation, storage and transmission were different than they are today. Or were those very ancient civilizations so advanced that our current knowledge is faulty? Build one working model of this magical power plant, made from stone. Then we can talk. Or show me one tool that can be powered by such technology that has been found. Ooh... You can hum and hear a resonance frequency inside you say? Then show me how that can do actual work. By the way... A battery run on creating electrical potential by chemistry is vastly different than something capable of power generation with amplification to "microwave" frequencies. You can make a crude battery with a pickle, after all! If vast amounts of practical electricity can be generated via piezo, it would be used today.
Explain to me, the vase, that uncharted put on youtube. Explain to me, how that vase, is perfect down, to a 1/1000 of an inch. In our days now, we cant do the same pression. And a side note. They did it, in granite.
My old college professor was quoted out of context by these guys for years. He was an ex-naval nuclear engineer working as an engineering professor. They proposed 1 specific question about if nuclear reactors had layers of shielding, in case a layer failed. Then asked if some specific tombs in a pyramid were also in a similar layer. His name was one their website for ~2 decades.
Ramp pump. 3 girdle stones in shaft 3 piston blocks. Missing its valves and water. Seen from phinx. Water was up to it's neck in early egyptian times. Sound propagating thru stone disturbing north south.
Queen chamber separated -negative. Kings chamber + positive.
Granite stacked up works as a flyback transformer.
You put sand in a box. Frequency separated by grand gallery. No need for wires. High voltage low capacity. Tesla coil. Desinged and build closed up and working. No one got in our out. Untill earthquake about 1500 bc.
Stone north south arrangement. Agains earth north south. Importand for propagating sound thru stone. Making north south vibrate. And generate energy. Low voltage high capacity (our technology of the day) needs wires.
Teslacoil goes thru air. This is high voltage low capacity.
No
@@humbuccaneer84Stop trolling
Was it miraculous, or a feat of engineering?
The pyramids *were* machines. They were vehicles meant to deliver the deceased through the afterlife and into immortality.
Yep, they were technically "resurrection machines".
Local power generation stations...not so much.
The pyramids were hydrogen generators using Znamya Solarsail Spotlight/laser satellites as a power source to split the H2O into hydrogen.
This guy is spreading mis disinformation. There were and still are copper wires in the great pyramid.
Here is their self preservation motive for the families LIES.
Every 13,000 years half the 26,000 year Precession/Great Year/Yuga cycle our solar system crosses over our galaxies electromagnetic/Gravitational plane/equator. (13,000 years ago, Younger Dryas, Gobekli tepe, Melt water pulse 1A/1B, Continental glaciers, Atlantis's etc etc)
The galactic bulges rotation is approaching perihelion with our solar system as evidenced by magnetic north being at 23.7 degrees with the galactic bulges Electromagnetic/gravitational pull.
The GALACTIC Milankovitch cycles cause our climate cycles.
Precession/Great Year/Yugas crossing the galactic plane causes Continental glaciers with lower sea levels (Dwarka, Atlantis's) brought on by East to West Global Tsunami's (Gobekli tepe, Younger Dryas) that freeze into the continental glaciers every 13,000 years.
Eccentricity with the galactic bulges 240,0000/120,000 year cycle regulates ice age/tropical age. With the rotation of the Galactic bulge regulating the intensity and depth of the Ice age/Tropical age every 120,000 years at either perihelion or aphelion. We are approaching perihelion with the galactic bulges rotation somewhere around 201,000 years moving towards the OMEGA perihelion with the galactic bulge.
Obliquity/Magnetic north is how you know where we are reference the galactic bulge. Obliquity is also the cause of global warming as the galactic bulge is headed towards perihelion with our solar system.
Covid1984 like CO2 is a LIE built upon an inconvenient truth.
Covid being the baby Boomers turning into the Seniors Bust due to the usual suspects of seasonal Flu/Pneumonia and old age.
The mask/Mark of the beast (No Buying or Selling) is just a pretext for the FINAL SOLUTION to the Goylim/Gentile problem.
Jesus loved all races because there is only one race with only one minority. HUMAN race INDIVIDUAL human!
@@GregoryJByrne- If any of your astronomical blather were true, scientists would know it already.
I'm an old fart. I learned about the existence of carbon dioxide when Nixon was POTUS.
COVID is a coronavirus. It's the asshole cousin of the common cold. Influenza is a completely different virus.
This is far more interesting than generating electricity lmao. Truth is stranger than fiction. We’re so deep into modern life at this point that wrapping our mind around the idea of a machine to take your soul to the afterlife isnt even possible. But they believed in it so much that they spent all those man hours building them. Absolutely insane. Modern culture is what we need to break free of not modern science. The modern culture that tells us mushrooms are bad and coffee is good, and tries to sell you something shiney every ten minutes of the day. Thats what we need to break free from. Keep the science, burn the culture. Everyone needs to do a large dose of mushrooms.
@@Digital__rb- Don't know about the shrooms, but you're right about the need for cultural change.
10:55 I know it's probably the least damning evidence, but as a watchmaker, I can confirm he has no idea how any of it works. Quartz is used in wristwatches for accuracy due to its vibrations when current passes through it. The current is provided by a battery. Obviously. Some wristwatches use a rotating weight to either tighten the spring in mechanical movements (99% of the time, a rotor is used) or to charge the battery/capacitor in a quartz watch, the same way you would charge one of those manual flashlights. Shaking a quartz watch to make the quartz provide electricity is a ludicrous statement. But I guess it was obvious to many other people who aren't watchmakers since it's pretty common knowledge. I had to mention it regardless. Great video overall!
To clarify, quartz is, among a bunch of other compounds, piezoelectric. This means it can generate movement from applied electrical fields, but also generate electrical fields from applied mechanical stress, in a fairly linear symmetry. That's a true fact. The idea that a piece of unpurified and uncut quartz (like a building block of a pyramid) could do that, let alone generate amounts of electricity that Egyptians could make use of is ludicrous. That said, both aspects of piezoelectricity (though rarely specifically quartz) do see industrial use, since it can generate very consistently high current.
@@bigchungus6827 Piezoelectric? So like pickups on a acoustics. Egyptians clearly wanted amps for their 6-strings but couldn't make a solid body due to lack of wood.
@@KasumiRINA Makes more sense than them building power plants, tbh.
Does it hold any water? Well, if the limestone is porous and capillarity works, the pyramid could hold some I guess... But wouldn't it be easier just to go down to the Nile and fetch some? I mean, the Egyptians had several kinds of pumps...
Thanks for the nice work!
Indeed. It looks like the Great Pyramid had water, or some sort of liquid running though it, but same cannot be said of the other pyramids, or at least there is not hint of evidence of such for them.
they even have the water empeller in the cairo museum
@@whiteeagle6370 Yes the great pyramid sits on a perched aquifer , and ground water is found at rather shallow depths when it has been filled up by recent rains there.
I imagine they had problems with the subterranean chamber that sits 90 feet below ground level filling up with water on occasion .
Would it be a useful place to draw water from , and enough to build a pyramid shaped water pumping station ? Certainly not !!!
@@TheBookofAquarius You mean the schist disc ?
Or in other words who is the shiot for brains that would use this design to move water with ?
They got the water from the same place they found copper rods from
On top of responding to conspiracy theory lunatics in a fun, educational fashion, your videos also have a spicy ASMR soothingness. Thank you for your work.
Biggest argument I have for such crap ideas, ancient Egyptians had no need of energy.
They needed their ACs?
Televisions?
Charge up their electric cars?
Yes there is no evidence of "energy" use to be had - anywhere. For me however the most compelling "absence" is = why do we not then see these supposed "power plants" everywhere else in the region???? After all a civilization harnessing energy would dominate the land compared to everyone else. Thus such a civilization were it real should have steamrolled over other lands - creating additional "power plants" as they went - such that we should see them everywhere throughout Africa/Asia/Europe.............but of course we don't. Also there were no patents back then while civilizations often copied from each other in time.
Final thought. We have been using electricity since the late 19th Century. Within a short span of time we were able to create generators which are a fraction of the size of a pyramid - while today we can make them small enough for a single man to carry. So if generating power for any reasonable amount of time then surely smaller versions of these supposed "power plants" should be seen = but again absolutely nothing............nada. As with all things "alternative" this twaddle is more Hollywood than history. Enjoy your day folks. 🥱
Using evidence to prove something ? What a concept! Keep up the amazing videos.
but but, never use facts to destroy a fun story haha
I was fortunate in 1995 to spend 6 hours privately in the Great Pyramid. If it were a power generator, why wouldn’t the builders have created a decent toilet in the building? The air in the King’s Chamber isn’t ionized-it’s heavy with the smell of urine.
Wait....6 hours, what they hell were you doing in there?? Destroying evidence and stealing copper wire?
urine can store energy. phosphorus is in urine. that would explain why there arent any scorch marks from torches inside. also there where two copper metal tips on that one wall they sent a robot through back in 1999
They dont call it the Sere Pee Um for nothing. 🤣
No one was ever in the building untill collapse by earthquake demolisment by romans and ottomans. The urine you smell is less than 500 years old. But they had to remove a lot of sand... silicon +-4.
The smell of urine was from all of these conspiracy theorists pissing on real history.
If your god-king ordered you to build his giant tomb, wouldn't you over-engineer it so you aren't screwed in the afterlife? I would. XD
Point of fact: the heaviest coffin and lid at the Serapeum has a maximum possible mass of 65 tons total. SGD did the maths yesterday, and very conservatively in fact. :)
Yeah, and the Greeks knew about a rotating bulb powered by steam, and they knew that a turning screw could move water.
Surely they had steam powered naval vessels roaring all over the Mediterranean. This is even more likely than Egyptian electricity.
Still didn't happen.
Great review of the evidence! Awesome video production all around.
Thank you!
I remember from my High School biology lessons that capillary attraction could raise water 33 feet in trees because that's what one atmosphere could be supported, and I guess the same applies to absorbent rocks. Transpiration is needed to raise it by suction any higher.
Sure, rock is pretty similar to organic material.
it is insane that the bull$hit videos have millions of views and the non-speculative video about it is less than 100k
Imagine not being able to conceive of rich and powerful people being extra to show that they’re rich and powerful.
The most logical conclusion.
If the ancient Egyptians had the physics knowledge to generate electricity and practical uses for it, why would their "power plant" be such a kludgy Rube Goldberg construct that bears no resemblance to any other power plant? Given the know-how, the Egyptians could have constructed a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant and/or windmills much more easily, and generated far more electricity than could have been wrung out of a bit of piezoelectric effects in a gigantic stone building, if such would even have been noticeable.
Plus, the CSP plant would have fit with their belief systems far better. "Hail Re, who gives us light by day and by night! By his power and generosity, do all the machines of the Two Lands run!" If you look at a modern CSP plant, with mirrors arranged around a central tower, it would be easy to imagine that tower as a hieroglyph-inscribed obelisk. So why wouldn't they have built their power plants that way instead?
Good questions!
They didn’t need to build a “pyramid” for energy as they had the capacity in other aspects, batteries and rudimentary solar that made small amounts of electricity. David is correct and no need for electricity for plating but there is published evidence showing they did use rudimentary batteries. No evidence so far of widespread usage other than electroplating and possible other one off or smaller applications. The pyramid is a showpiece. I’ve seen the theories that are interesting but there seems there is a huge lack of evidence as David stated.
@@floridaman4073 the thing you’re talking about, one small jar, probably wasn’t a battery…
(There were four jars found, only one had the metal in it. Hell, one of them literally just had a scroll inside. How much literature do you carry in your batteries?)
But more importantly, even if it was a battery for making very weak electric charges for some reason, it’s from a different culture, in a different place, _thousands of years_ after the great pyramid was built
They could have also chosen to make a hydro plant in Aswan, but apparently the "wacky magical pyramid" made more sense in their heads.
One explanation I've heard for the light bulb theory is that there is not enough oxygen in the Egyptian tombs to support flame. The only problem with this is that the amount of oxygen required to support flame is 20.8% which is also the same amount required for breathing.
Yeah. And it's weird how air can get up a relatively short passage, but leave its oxygen behind. And how people manage to go caving, crawling through small tunnels in the rock, sometimes for A mile or more, yet none of them ever noticed that there's no oxygen down there...even though they often have gas monitors. And not a single caver in history was ever a smoker, and had a cheeky smoke down in some cave
Shhhh they HATE facts
You can light a flame near the top of Everest. I don't see how it would ever be a problem at sea level.
I used to think ancient aliens were pretty stupid for prescribing cattle dung to heal lacerations, but if they were so stupid as to have to build a mountain of rock to build a power plant, my thoughts and dreams of advanced aliens have crumbled to dust. Also, I think it is just awesome how these aliens built a power plant in the middle of a graveyard with a grave in the middle of the pyramid. And how smart were these aliens to make a battery that puts out less than 4 volts. Takes real genius to come up with that kind of technology. 🤣
@Skenkie Mcmuffin absolutely
Up until today I actually thought that there were very limited to no descriptions of the buildings of the pyramids. Cool to learn something new!
Ih yeah lol you really should go down the rabbit hole on ancient eygpt. Exp the possible idea of ancient technology.
No @@jamesritter4813
These folk need to visit Occam for a philosophical shave with his razor.
Lately, I've seen a lot of videos showing up on RUclips about the so-called Dendera "lights", but while all of them debunked the claim that these are giant Edison-style light bulbs, this is the first one that actually explained what they actually are aside from vague mentions of lotos-flowers and the clear depiction of a snake. Thank you for this clear and concise explanation of a contentious subject.
Above the Dendera bulbs is hieroglyphics that explains exactly what the "bulbs" actually portray. Read about the "bulbs" for the facts!
Never knew about Bulls in Pyramids! I feel a song coming on: "Just like a Bull in a Pyramid" la la la"
The bulls were in the Serapeum.
5000 years from now someone will be excavating & researching Disneyland saying “aaah yes, this was a temple... they came from all over to worship here...”
Ha maybe, but I think there are some giveaways.
Hail, all worship the giant mouse! :)
I like the diagram at around 3 minutes 45 - Someone used several books about basic physics and a bit of chemistry, mixed it together and wrote it into a sketch of the pyramid.
Well, from an electrical engineering point of view, nothing of this makes any sense...
It "looks like" the acid is meant to be an electrolyte, like in a battery. But to make that work one needs 2 different conductive electrodes (the battery parts conveniently left out). Zinc reacts with hydrochloric acid to form hydrogen - "hydrated zinc chloride solution" isn't a thing the way its written here. What they seem to refer to is zinc chloride hydrates, and have some use in galvanic processes and batteries. Question is, why they would put both solutions into one device? And any galvanic reaction would need conducting electrodes to interact with those substances, not to mention conductors to transport any generated electricity to somewhere where it's used for whatever purpose.
In any case, even if we ignore the missing conductors and assume this to be some battery, we'd still face the issue that the produced voltage won't exceed 1 Volt. Regardless of the size of that battery, because 1 "reaction chamber" represents 1 single cell... Similar to poking an iron nail and a copper wire into an orange, creating some 1.2 Volt ;-)
Next thing is, how would that "battery" get which part of the quartz (which is by no means refined in any way) to resonate on a microwave level... Without toasting everything around? Well, it can't. First there's nothing to get ant supposedly generated electricity to that chamber. Second there's nothing excreting any control whatsoever on said quartz parts, nothing to direct any supposed output anywhere and the underlying current that might have been created will be in milliampere regions.
Using simple electro physics, power equals voltage multiplied with ampere. Assuming some 1 Volt and say 100 mA output would result in an output of whopping 0.1 Watt... That's marginal more than one single (!!!) LED. In terms of light, a candle flame will produce way more that that.
That acoustic filter in the schematics will have only one purpose, looking interesting to someone who has no idea what the other stuff is supposed to mean. The same is true for that "resonator hall" and "feedback mechanism".
I did like that part saying "microwave signal input". Why in heaven would you need that "microwave power output" to the left if you have one already - which is that so called microwave signal input"?
To clarify, any electromagnetic wave consists of power and the frequency that power oscillates. You can't separate the "signal" from that power.
This is true for all electromagnetic frequencies, be it radar, light, radio, x-ray or anything else.
So, in a nutshell, for an electrician or electrical engineer, it takes less than 4 minutes to see why a Pyramid can't have been a powerplant. Let alone one to support some power grid or anything more than a single LED.
And of course the flood of actual evidence to them being tombs really.
Oh and regarding the Baghdad batteries... 1. it was a set of 4 and a single one somewhat North East. None of them had an iron rod in those cylinders, those "nails" were instead outside the jars holding them in place. # of the 4 were lying down and one standing, the single one from the other site was likely lying down too (seems the position was disturbed during excavation). No acid or actual traces of acid were ever found.
But, IF one places the nail in the copper zylinder and poures acid in, you might get about 0.8 Volt out of that.
Sadly, that theory doesn't hold water, since most jars had more than one, up to 10 copper zylinders inside, which makes that theory collapse.
Besides, nothing has ever been found that could indicate any use of such "minimal" amounts of electricity at all. None, zero, nada ;-)
Oh, "the materials we use today to make electrical wires", referring to their statement 12 mins 40 seconds into the video... Being an electrician I seriously wonder... All electrical wires we use are made from copper, some few from aluminium. During the great second war evem iron was used and some applications need gold or silver wires - never have I seen wiring made from granite or such.
Them referring to "enhance conductivity" is only relevant if there were any electricity in the first place. You know, gold is a superior conductor, but that doesn't make your jewelry box a power plant.
15 minutes in, a capacitor is NOT a battery. In fact they are very different things.
Also, a battery generally, has 2 electrodes, which are not necessarily the same material, and some electrolyte, often an acid.
A capacitor is, essentially, 2 plates of a conductor, placed opposite each other and divided by a layer of insulation. Those 2 plates also don't necessarily have to be the same material.
A battery generates power due to chemical reaction, a capacitor can hold a charge between those 2 plates, when it's been exposed to such a charge beforehand. The current delivered by a capacitor is generally rather low.
So what part of such a sarcophagus is which plate and what part is the insulation layer? What part is the contact which connects it to any type of circuit? Where are said circuits? Where are the devices driven by any imaginary generated electric charge?
15 mins 15 seconds in, that sarcophagus isn't cracked, one can clearly see the blade went off course during cutting. Furthermore, a "crack" doesn't interrupt an electromagnetic field. In fact, as stated before, a capacitor needs a layer of insulation between its plates. If they came in contact they would simply cause a short circuit.
23 mins 50 secs, gold is a good conductor, but it isn't a superconductor. Superconductors are on an entirely different level and usually nalso need very low temparatures (like liquid nitrogen or lower).
Any gold cover stone would not have made any conductivity into the ionosphere (why they chose that part of the atmosphere is an enigma to me). That capstone could only conduct what it gets from its wiring from somewhere below... wait, there's still no trace of any wiring, right?
26 mins, like so many conspiracies, they love the word frequency. I guess because frequency by itself says exactly nothing. A frequency describes the repitition of something within a certain timeframe, nothing more.
Like 60 beats of the heart in a minute, like 52 saturdays in a year, like 50 repititions of a full sinewave of +240 volt to -240 volt within a second (like European power grid on one phase), like 1 dentist visit per year etc.
They don't specify anything about the "magic frequency" they talk about, neither voltage, nor timeframe, nor how often repeated in said frame, not if it's electric at all or electromagnetic (though any electric frequency will cause a certain electromagnetic frequency but not necessarily the other way around)...
27 mins in, no, these devices clearlt are NOT light sources. Pretty clear actually.
he most used argument for them being light sources is the thing holding the big end up. Many draw a similarity to wire insulators on powerplants. Sadly, those insulators have one specific reason to look like that. They are used on the outside of powerplants (you may see some inside too, but only because it's cheaper to have one kind made for both uses). The rib like structure gives it away. This structure is often associated direcly with electricity. Fact is, however, those ribs are designed to break waterflow in strong rain, so no electricity can creep towards the other end of those insulators. Any setting those supposed lightbulbs could have been used wouldn't have been anywhere close to strong rain falls (which are so common there anyway ;-) )
In fact, atmospheric differences would wreak havoc with any of their proposed ideas anyway.
35 mins 20 secs, well, to transfer electromagnetic energy towards the ssy, they could have done with way less effort. Like with a simple torch.
Most conspiracies seem to ignore the fact that simple visible light is actually part of the electromagnetic spectrum. So, a torch with a visible flame actively emits electromagnetic radiation we call "light". Between infrared and ultra violet.
I'm still baffled how little those guys know about actual physics.
As a bonus, the diagram is of Great pyramid, not a single one other has the same schematic, in fact most of them aren't hollow inside and only have chambers in the sand underneath, so the whole structure becomes irrelevant as they were literally just rocks in a pyramid shape and the tomb was outside. The granite in Great Hall? Not a think in any others. The tunnels to outside? Also not a thing. There are more than 100 pyramids so even IF that schematic explained one, they'd need to go over for more than a hundred after.
What I find far more interesting and intriguing is if there are more chambers and passages that have yet never been discovered. I believe there are some recent claims there might be... That building is so massive it almost seems ridiculous to think that the known chambers are the only ones in it...
If there is no access how could anyone find them
Tomography has found a couple and we have looked into one
Hawas doesn't allow people to go into newly discovered areas until he can go in privately and steal everything inside, then he reseals the place after hes cleaned everything valueable out... Then he calls in crews and the media to explore it for the 'first time' and the rooms turn out to be empty. Its amazing how people would go through all that trouble to make a stone room and seal it off to keep thieves out and leave these rooms completely empty 🧐🤔
Hawas doesn't allow people to go into newly discovered areas until he can go in privately and steal everything inside, then he reseals the place after hes cleaned everything valueable out... Then he calls in crews and the media to explore it for the 'first time' and the rooms turn out to be empty. Its amazing how people would go through all that trouble to make a stone room and seal it off to keep thieves out and leave these rooms completely empty 🧐🤔
Beliefs and sloppy logic doesnt advance our understanding
@SuperUAP And you can state rhat without knowing anything .
Has anyone in ancient times visiting Egypt written about this "magical" power on display? I haven't heard of any. We already have a hard time teaching kids today. The last thing we need are fringe suggestions that have no basis in fact but presented as such.
I love it that all these theories can be smashed by simple facts. Keep on going with your videos! :D
Glad you like them!
This guy is an idiot… he purposefully left out certain facts that prove the pyramid was in fact a power plant
What always fascinates me about people who go on and on about the Pyramids, is that they seem fixated on the Great Pyramids of Giza (which are unquestionably marvels of human engineering), but they tend to ignore the plethora of crap pyramids that are also dotted around the region. The bent ones, the half built ones, the collapsed ones. The ones that show an obvious progression and experimentation of building techniques and trial and error over the years, decades and centuries. So, if they were built by ancient Atlanteans, they were the Atlanteans who were, "Well, we saw this pyramids back in the good old days, but we haven't got a clue how they built them, so we'll have to start from scratch."
Hey most of them aren't crap, it's just that apart from the Giza ones, the ones that are most famous are those that stand out. Djoser's first pyramid is already amazing, as it has actual chambers and tunnels inside (most, apart from the Great one, don't)... but yeah it's also my argument: LOOK AT OTHER PYRAMIDS! Hell, go to Google maps, or use a flight sim to just go up the Nile and see that after Giza, there's Dahshur and Saqqara necropolises. If you can't even that, play Discovery Tour in Assassin's Creed Origins, it has so many to explore! There's even a quest in the Bent pyramid lol.
As a Bulgarian, we do not claim Dimitrov. Thanks for these videos, it makes me extremely angry when people spread this type of misinformation and total fantasy. It's so disrespectful to all researchers and hard-working professional archeologists and historians spanning over decades of research. It really makes me sad and angry that people try to discredit hard work and facts with perverted fantasies of our history just because it tickles their small brains.
Electricity costs are going up so why hasn't GE or Exxon or anybody built ONE Pyramid?
More to the point = why were the pyramids so large........
Moral: the electric generator was developed in the mid-19th Century. Within a single century however we were building generators a fraction of the size capable of generating higher amounts of power than the original models which filled the floor of a small building. Today we have portable generators a single man can carry.
So why after a century did we not then see similarly reduced in size "pyramid generators"??? It is instinctive to human progress to be constantly looking for ways to improve upon our technology after all.
So we do not see pyramids all over as you alluded to + we do not see any progression in the technology + we do not see evidence of devices such "power plants" supposedly powered. What we do see = are a bunch of LAHT muppets with clearly overactive imaginations and a dearth of critical thinking skills.... 🤭🤷
Ok, I'll bite. What were the power plants powering? And why don't we see what was receiving the power?
It’s possible that what was receiving the power is no longer on earth. It either left, and went away from the planet, or it stayed on Earth and has totally disintegrated over the thousands of years.
We have a civilization ending cataclysm tomorrow, within 300 years or less nothing, I mean nothing is left to find. Maybe just the pyramids, again.
They powered nothing of course since they were not power plants. As an aside. Any civilization capable of harnessing energy at that time should have swept all before them. Accordingly we should therefore see these supposed "power plants" spread across the continent - and beyond = but of course we do not because it is not real....... 🤨
@@forrestwhichard2862you'll note that this is indistinguishable from them having never existed in the first place.
@@forrestwhichard2862the idea that an ancient advanced civilization would leave nothing behind is laughable.
FINALLY!!! Someone else went down the, "ancient electrical tech road"!
Current desire/demand for electeic power has warped simple thinking into imagining EVERY human has ALWAYS needed, wanted or desired unlimited electrical power.
I submit, ancient egyptians would have NO understanding or desire for unlimited 115v, ac!!!
Water was probably always on the top of their small lists...
The storytelling of the power plant hypothesis is so chaotic and vague, I suppose he has no clue at all but is convinced mentioning as many different subjects at all would prove his scientific method and insight.
all pyramids are obviously mark 12 Bullshitoniumreaktors. build on antares 14 from the eaglefaced aliens known as ASFASGFASGAHADHADH
Shocking destruction of another myth! Sparking my interest in more current ones. Keep charging Professor!
now we need him to take a very close look at Graham Hancock cause that man is gathering quite a bit of inertia in pseudoarcheology circles that greatly affect the public awareness. It's time to get down to Earth and nonsense to be treated as nonsense.
this guy has not debunked anything, he hasnt done any reasearch to understand this. There is a shitload of salt in the bottom chamber. think anomolous does a vidoe on this and actually explain is rather than some dude being annoying and makign statements that show how little he understands about this. This guy makes me cringe.
It's amazing during these times many fall for this scam making the people who write such books rich laughing on the way to the bank. What's really amazing is this video has only 3.1K likes at the time I watch it, which has been up since Sept. 2019. There are a number of videos recently uploaded claiming the GREAT PYRAMID as Power Plants with much more likes than this video! Proving there are more idiots in the world than you think. TU for the video and I will check out other videos you produced!
Thanks so much for this - and all of the Myths of Ancient History videos! (Heard about you from the Stefan Milo interview.) I saw "Chariots of the Gods" at a Saturday matinee as a kid and just loved the speculative history experience - though, somehow, even as a 10- or 12-year-old I never Believed it.... Why has it taken 40+ years for me to hear and see such clear and concise scientific rebuttal of that kind of entertaining nonsense??! Loved the translations from the Dendera complex! Looking forward to more - and More - and MORE......! Ah, science.
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the videos, Kristofer. Thanks for coming by!
On the question about capillary action 21:25
It is feasible that stresses induced by capillary action might produce microscopic amounts of static electricity. However, it would be a once only effect. To get more you would have to remove the water and let it leak in again. It is a non-starter for useful, continuous power.
However, rocks like granite are almost perfect insulators so it would go nowhere.
The statements at 22:30 about magnification are just downright lies.
The statement about a gold cap conducting electricity up to the ionosphere is equally non-scientific babble.
My assessment overall is that this is all rubbish and almost certainly deliberate lying about every detail.
18:31 - 19:00 really cracked me up...
I started imagining someone selling copper wires on the black market, claiming it's ancient wires from the Pyramid.... 😂
Zahi Hawass was Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs twice, but since is reduced to selling pyramid copper to finance his gacha game addiction... Hey, Ozymandias needs NP8 for all appends now!
Water in the pyramids...caves are formed by a chemical reaction between limestone and water. Capillary action or no, you can forget any useful amount of water mixing with the limestone for any length of time. You can't have both joints and seams measured in tenths or hundredths of inches AND water flowing through, the limestone would turn into the stone equivalent of Swiss Cheese.
Thank you for the video! Although I sometimes watch programs or videos on "possible" ancient "high technology" solely as an amusing diversion 🤣 I appreciate someone like you who knows what they're talking about and puts in the time and effort to debunk the junk for us lay people!
21:38 That's not physics, although physicists could probably answer you question, but that's actually geology. At least in the Netherlands you have to know capilar working for your high schoold end exam (Aardrijkskunde eindexamen VWO)
(btw, after a google search, I learned it's actually a thing in physics as well)
I'm just a high schooler, scientists can give a better answer, but here's my explanation;
capillary action, as far as I'm concerned, happens when there's too much water in layer two (layer one being the ground, layer two being the 'geological layer' under layer one which holds the ground/soil water). The excess water will then go to the surface because of capillary action. It's one of the hardest concepts to get your head around in geology so I'm not suprised they did it wrong and I'm not even sure if they did. But capillary action in geology is mostly used in the context of desertification and desiccation and not in the context of this 'underground river'-ish thingy they seem to be going for. When the water in a layer two is 'normal' (there is not excess water) capillary action doesn't occur.
One thing I can be certain of though, the smaller the particals/stones, the stronger capillary action. The smaller the particals and the smaller the openings inbetween them, the strong this force is, that's what I learned in class. And now, which 'stones' are bigger; sand or limestones? How they know the term capillary action and can still claim that the water will go into the pyramid structure (being limestone with big openings and thus no capillary working force whatsover) is beyond me.....
PLEASE anyone with more knowledge correctly if I'm wrong. That's gonna save me some marks on my final exam Geology. ;)
Final Nail in the coffin in the alternative pyramid hypothesis. I would expect nothing less.
Har Sema Tawy is fake news. Ignore that ancient inscription!Them's lightbulbs!
It's refreshing to hear all your logic. Thanks for putting it out there.
i love your work Important, enlightening, interesting and highly sensible. Your opinion and scientific approach is very important and always gives me the backing of reason, which seems more important to me than ever today. Thanks alot! I hope you never stop and don't get discouraged. Even if facts and nonsense are one against a thousand on the battlefield.
I've watched this three times now. I'm pretty well versed in physics and I have no clue how they think this power generator or battery would function.
It's like they've just mish mashed together a bunch of obscure electro-magnetic phenomena together and hoping that no one on their audience actually understands physics...
Also, it's always fucking Tesla...
What am excellent channel. I was so excited believing all of the alternative ancient history finds.
Really enjoyed that while it lasted but I am so much better off finding your channel. Many thanks!!!!
Welcome aboard!
You dont know there purpose either. No one really does. If you compress quarts, it generates a voltage. If you apply a voltage to quarts it occilates. Your smug dude
Actually most people know the purpose of the pyramids. They're tombs for Egyptian pharaohs.
There is no serious alternate explanation and the Egyptians themselves testify to them being tombs. Which essentially settles the question.
What do you think about the block adjacent to the sarcophagus in the kings chamber? The one that is non load bearing and looks like the sarcophagus was pushed through the gap?
He will not respond to anyone challenging his points he states that “the limestone is very strong and was 234ft thick” when the question asked about how would they have cut it to perfect angles on the pyramid and the like
@@amandaweese8676 haha, I was thinking the same thing. He would never answer a question like this😂
If absorption works to raise water into the pyramid, what works to keep underground rivers underground? A lack of a pyramid? Why do people bother to dig wells into tough bedrock when they can just build pyramids?
Nicely done. Good analysis.
Says it could be capacitor and doesn’t actually show why it could be. I do not see two plates with a gap between them so somebody explain how that could be even considered remotely like a capacitor. Don’t even get me started with the water pressure but now it’s too late. Have they heard of hydrostatic pressure? ρgh or ρgz? This means bc the granite is at e top if you fill the chamber with water no pressure will be experienced by the ceiling other than some of it as you start to move downward. It would make more sense if they had granite at the bottom then hand a massive tunnel which goes from the surface of the granite upward filled with water. But no this person obviously hasn’t take fluid mechanics, or any sort of physics. Additionally the piezoelectric effect is experienced by polarized ferroelectric ceramics. Good job on them recognizing stone as a ceramic but it is not ferromagnetic and it is now polarized even tho it contains quartz. So bad job you get an F in my course try again
Thank you for debunking this nonsense, what do you think about the theory that the sphinx is older than currently believed based on water erosion, a la Graham Hancock, sorry if you've already answered this new to your channel. Great content!
Thank you! Yes, I am working on a script for the Sphinx erosion hypothesis and hope to record it soon.
This is my favorite debunking of Dr. Schoch's rainy conjecture:
ruclips.net/video/559K616ohaI/видео.html
Lol. Your video should just be a single frame that says "No." The pyramid's being power plants is one of those absurd theories not even worth addressing. But props for at least addressing the claim serious XD 11:13 "Increases the conductivity of electricity" what? That's literally jibberish.
"The Universe Inside You" would be a good title for a study of intestinal flora.
Or as a title for a educational children's book about basic human anatomy.
Any electrical engineer can tell you that some amounts of electricity can be transmitted without wires, (that's how a crystal radio works), but metallic wires do a MUCH better job, because they have less electrical resistance that air. Tesla was a smart guy, but his research into transmitting usable amounts of electricity through the air over long distances was a waste of time. And even if usable amounts of "free" electricity could be delivered in that way, who is paying for the cost of generating the electricity in the first place? The fact is, usable amounts of wireless electricity is a "pipe dream". And no, rocks like sandstone and granite don't generate or conduct electricity. The woman who narrated this video has a very pleasant voice, but if she believes ANY of this BS, she is as clueless as one of the numerous stones that make up the Great Pyramid.
The "Pyramid powerplant" hyphotesis makes even less sense when you realize that the supposed hyper-advanced civilization could have just made a hydroeletric plant in Aswan instead, like the one we have since the 70s.
Yes. Consider our harnessing of electricity for use. In the 19th Century the first electrical generators were large, cumbersome machines. Yet within a few decades we were able to construct smaller generators = which in time got smaller and smaller/more efficient.
So as you say a civilization supposedly capable of harnessing energy should within a short period of application be able to improve upon the process to streamline it. We should therefore see these "power plants" all over - which of course we do not - as well as see improved versions of the same to say nothing of alternative generation methods as you alluded to + items to use said energy.
Moral: this entire narrative is reminiscent of a Tranq enhanced crack pipe dream. People whose imaginations have clearly gotten the better of them........ 🤦🤷
Having watched this video, and read the book by Christopher Dunne, I find my vocabulary is insufficient to find enough variations on the word "ridiculous".
To work through and debunk all of the errors in logic, science and engineering contained in this ridiculous scam would end up with a book with more pages than the Encyclopedia Britannica.
The scary thing is that this idiocy still persists and is taken seriously in some quarters.
Excellent description and analysis of Dendera temple, thanks. I’d love to see your analysis of how and why the ptolemies collected the remaining priestly records and practices to preserve ancient Egyptian achievements in astronomical observation for all eternity
Wow the best summary ever 😊😊😊🪐. Seeder planet inside Saturn 🪐. This is why we are going up to a moon 🌚 on Jupiter Europa
35:29. Thank you for mentioning this question. It's what I asked my friend who believes these power plant theories. What did they do with all this electricity once they generated and transmitted it? He literally refused to answer or even acknowledge my question.
Charged and powered their tools and ships... That's the whole point.
@@St0neByte Their tools and ships...that were mere handhammers, chisels, saws, all powered by hand...and ships powered by sails. Why do ALL drawings of tools and ships show simples tools and normal ships? Why do all egyptian hammers and chisels we find are normal hammers and chisels? Why do all egyptian ships we find are normal and have no electric engines, batteries, etc.
Id love to see your proof
I just dont understand why folk have to keep coming up with all these fanciful ideas. You Tube needs an Ockham's razor app to detect nonsense.
Thank you for adding a sound historical evidence based context to these types of videos, they keep my imagination from taking me all the way into the "New Age Movement" blackhole :D
Interesting information about the lotus flower motifs in ancient Egpytian relics and art, hadn't heard anything about that at all even when another video explained the fallacy of the Dendara 'light' bollocks.
The lack of most basic science knowledge is truly jaw dropping. How anyone could listen to this "power plant" nonsense is mindboggling.
Thanks for the video! I'm just very surprised that some"shafts" under the great pyramid are unexplored! That sounds like something super exciting to do.
Fantastic video World Of Antiquity, I am so glad I just discovered your youtube channel! PLEASE become the "Academic" version of Brien Forester and explore all the worlds ancient sites with high definition video while explaining to us the actual peer reviewed science of these sites! For far to long you tube has been dominated by non academics spreading nonsense by "intentionally or unintentionally" leaving out VERY IMPORTANT facts when showing these sites. Your example of the "light balb hieroglyphs" and the corresponding hieroglyphs directly above them being a PERFECT EXAMPLE!
Thanks! I will try not to disappoint.
@@WorldofAntiquity Here is one of my other new favorite ancient history RUclips Channels. They are trying to recreate accurate CGI animations of these people's world so we can see them in all their glory. Please take a look at their work and help them out if they get anything wrong. I really want them to be accurate and successful because their work "bringing the ancient past to life in motion and color" will really help bring new and young people into this field. I'm sure they will gladly collaborate with a qualified student of ancient history such as yourself! ruclips.net/video/57gaB1VtJiQ/видео.html
The biggest misconception the laymen have of the old world was that these people were to unorganized, or too stupid to build these amazing structures. They dont know the real ancient lost tools these people had access too that were lost during the dark age and then rediscovered 15th century like the dread mill crane, the capstan, the newly verified sand and water sled method, not just sled and rollers. They also dont know the huge amount of people and lengthy "decades to centuries" construction times involved in these massive national construction projects that modern nations like America has not done since the early 1900s like the golden gate bridge and the hover damn.
@@livefire666 Ah yes, I am already subbed. But it is a good channel. Thank you for sharing!
@@WorldofAntiquity Oh that's great, how accurate are their recreations so far?
@@livefire666 Well, some experiments are closer than others, but often they are just trying to show what can be done with the means available to the ancients, rather than the exact method.
As someone very familure with electronics, and electricity, and a pretty good founding in physics, I can say that everything in the subject video is total word salad, devoid of any meaning at all.
Excellent presentation, thank you.
Power plants...
For a time that had NO implements that required NOTHING but human power.
So glad that I found this channel.
Do you smack your forehead when watching videos like this in disbelief?(don't mean your video but the one you making kind of fun of)
Great
This is in my "videos to send to crazy conspiracy nut relatives to sucker them into learning something real for once" playlist.
Awesome video! I've never considered those theories seriously, but this debunking video was totally worth the watch
Glad you enjoyed it!
I thought the pyramids were piezoelectric generators for charging clean green solar system friendly electric spaceships
It's perfectly possible that devices like the Bahgdad 'battery' were used for electroplating jewelry with a gold or silver veneer.
Remind me to thank Atun-Shei Films for leading me to your channel. Your videos are a lot like the 3-hour-long documentary by Chris White Ancient Aliens Debunked, which has more views on RUclips than all the official Ancient Aliens footage on the "History" Channel's official RUclips channel, which really gives me some hope.
What a difference a real education/study/intellect makes!
Making a hen from a feather? There's not even a feather here. Proves that humans are able to believe anything, which we have known forever.
Really good job, thorough. I do love that lady's voice. She could read me bedtime stories.
Dimitrov, repeat after me:
STONE. DOES. NOT. CONDUCT. ELECTRICITY.
I'm a recent subscriber and find your content rivetting. Having trained to be a Classical Archaeologist in the early '80s, and eventual professor, I understand and appreciate your academic approach. The field disappointed me but the interest survives. Wondering how you approach a few common problems:
1) Since there are no writings from the time of Khufu and virtually everything you stated in backing up your premise came long after his 26 year reign, mostly in the 3rd century BCE, how would you counter that the Great Pyramid may have already been in existence and Khufu decided it would be a great monument to be buried in, thus starting a pyramid burial tradition?
2) Is it possible that Imhotep's step pyramid and works like the Bent Pyramid were attempts to recreate the aready existing pyramid from the more familiar mastabas? (Huge technology jump from clay brick tiered mastabas to limestone and granite casing in a hundred years after a series of flops)
3) And could that possibly have begun the tradition that the sarcophagi were designed to hold mummified corpses? The first human remains in one were dated to less than a hundred years earlier. (Not sure how interior square edges are cut with stone hammers) Doesn't mummification also defeat the purpose of a "flesh eating" box?
Love to have a discussion...
Hi Mark. Off the top of my head, here are my thoughts:
1) There are writings from the time of Khufu. Not many. But the Diary of Merer is certainly pertinent, and so is the graffiti inside the pyramid. Check out my True Purpose of the Pyramids video.
2) I think it is more likely that the Step Pyramid and Bent Pyramid were beginner steps toward a true pyramid. I don't think it is a huge technology jump from the Red Pyramid to the Great Pyramid.
3) Again, I think my True Purpose of the Pyramids video might add some more perspective to all of this.
Maybe when pyramid was done and completed, the outside of pyramid reflected sun heat energy to top of pyramid cap. This might create heat pressure exchange like Stirling engine 🤔. The pyramid tunnels pressure might of been constantly contracting and expanding on the inside???
Thank you for this video. I know someone who is interested in physics but is doing self study and has fallen down the wrong path. He believes that the pyramids were some kind of battery or something...
I hope this comes in handy!
Piezoelectric characteristics aid ionic and static properties but these are not likely to do more than a few visible spark tricks. The argument for the lowest chamber being a ram pump is extremely strong, given we know there was a water reservoir behind the plateau and a retaining wall around it. This explains a lot about the base of the structure. But the upper part at Queen's Chamber and above seem to be motivated differently and I'd postulate medical purposes before power plants.