The Great Pyramid - Blimey!

[SirOllyBolly]

I was reading a book today in which it mentioned that the perimeter of Great Pyramid, divided by twice it's height, was equal to the mathematical contant pi (to several significant digits).



Tish & pish I thought - I'd never heard of that before. So off to the interweb and - blimey! - the Great Pyramid is riddled with meaningful dimensions and amazing statistcs.



For example:

One of the first items discovered about the pyramid is that it is aligned with the four points of the compass. This means that its four sides point toward true East, West, North, and South. The error from true north is about 1/12 of a degree and what is even more astounding is that this orientation was done without a compass, which was not invented until the 1500 years after the Messiah's birth.



The Great Pyramid is located in the center of all the landmasses.



The base unit of measurement in the Pyramid's is 25.052 inches (PI). The Pryamid's Inch is 1.0025 of our regular inch. Each side of its base is 365.2422 cubits, which is the exact number of days in a solar year.



The mortar used is of an unknown origin. It has been analyzed and it's chemical composition is known but it can't be reproduced.



It is reported that when the pyramid was first broken into that the swivel door, weighing some 20 tons, was so well balanced that it could be opened by pushing out from the inside with only minimal force, but when closed, was so perfect a fit that it could scarcely be detected and there was not enough crack or crevice around the edges to gain a grasp from the outside.





For those inclined, here's some more interesting stuff,

LINKS

Great Pyramid

Great Pyramid Facts and Statistics - Crystalinks

[Sgt Sunshine]

name='SirOllyBolly']I was reading a book today in which it mentioned that the perimeter of Great Pyramid, divided by twice it's height, was equal to the mathematical contant pi (to several significant digits).



Tish & pish I thought - I'd never heard of that before. So off to the interweb and - blimey! - the Great Pyramid is riddled with meaningful dimensions and amazing statistcs.



For example:

One of the first items discovered about the pyramid is that it is aligned with the four points of the compass. This means that its four sides point toward true East, West, North, and South. The error from true north is about 1/12 of a degree and what is even more astounding is that this orientation was done without a compass, which was not invented until the 1500 years after the Messiah's birth.



The Great Pyramid is located in the center of all the landmasses.



The base unit of measurement in the Pyramid's is 25.052 inches (PI). The Pryamid's Inch is 1.0025 of our regular inch. Each side of its base is 365.2422 cubits, which is the exact number of days in a solar year.



The mortar used is of an unknown origin. It has been analyzed and it's chemical composition is known but it can't be reproduced.



It is reported that when the pyramid was first broken into that the swivel door, weighing some 20 tons, was so well balanced that it could be opened by pushing out from the inside with only minimal force, but when closed, was so perfect a fit that it could scarcely be detected and there was not enough crack or crevice around the edges to gain a grasp from the outside.





For those inclined, here's some more interesting stuff,

LINKS

Great Pyramid

Great Pyramid Facts and Statistics - Crystalinks

Interesting article SirOllyBolly.........................

I remember hearing some years ago, about a claim that a blunt razor blade put under an exact scale model of the Pyramid, would become sharp again overnight

I don't know whether its just a fallacy or really true

Its a bit like the "tooth fairy" I suppose...only for adults

I've got a "humungous " beard, so I'll never know.............

Cheers

Sgt S

[Steve Crook]

name='SirOllyBolly']I was reading a book today in which it mentioned that the perimeter of Great Pyramid, divided by twice it's height, was equal to the mathematical contant pi (to several significant digits).



Tish & pish I thought - I'd never heard of that before. So off to the interweb and - blimey! - the Great Pyramid is riddled with meaningful dimensions and amazing statistcs.

There are many books and documentaries about this. Every few years someone else will do a book or documentary claiming to have discovered all the secrets - and then they repeat all the things that have been known for decades



Very occasionally, someone will add something new to the pool of information. But additions are usually very small details compared to the mass of information that's already been discovered and discussed about them



Steve

[Moor Larkin]

When I first used to go to Tenerife I used to get bored sitting by the pool after a few days, so took to wandering back into the hills, that invariably back up the beach resorts. Completely abandoned now it seems, were the most incredible structures, terraces of odd-shaped rocks somehow creating the most perfect angled walls, held together by nothing but patience and gravity. Then I took to walking along concrete water gullies that snaked along a line of height, in and out of the mountain gullies. Some kept going straight along, as a ravine would drop away below........ heading straight into a hand-hewn tunnel that led god knows where............... Later walking down the same ravine I saw the white concrete line snaking out the other side of the outcrop, hundreds and hundreds of feet up..... How the hell did they do that?



Flying back into green Blighty I saw the dry-stoned walls snaking across the landscape I have known all my life and I thought maybe the same people built those............. A race of men who no longer walk the earth perhaps.....



But then I realised they still live in places like Indonesia. They are the race of men who have to carry rocks up and down hills in order to get something to eat..........

[Steve Crook]

People have built pyramids all over the world. It is often wondered if it was the same people that built them all. Books have been written suggesting that it was a race of aliens that taught the people of Earth how to build these pyramids. Or was it the people of a lost continent, like Atlantis? The reality is simpler. After a few experiments most people find that the easiest way to build a pyramid is with the pointy bit towards the top



And really, it is the most simple, basic structure. Any child can heap a few stones on top of each other. Over the years, they tend to refine things. But it's still the same basic principle



Steve

[penfold]

name='SirOllyBolly']I was reading a book today in which it mentioned that the perimeter of Great Pyramid, divided by twice it's height, was equal to the mathematical contant pi (to several significant digits).

Which only means, that if the Ancient Egyptians had used something as simple as a trundle wheel to plan out the base lengths of the pyramid, and the wheel had been made to a radius of a usual Egyptian unit - cubit, whatever, it doesn't matter - then the base and the height would indeed end up as being divisible by Pi....without the Egyptians ever having had to know what pi was or its significance, let alone having to calculate it.

[torinfan]

There is a pyramid in Arizona, too, but it has a very interesting historical background to it:







Charles Debrille Poston





I've hiked up the butte before. Unfortunately the location is not the best - it's right near a maximum security state prison.

[torinfan]

Some photos I took on the hike: