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Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves

posted by chromas on Friday August 03 2018, @04:20PM   
from the Just-ask-Leeloominaï-Lekatariba-Lamina-Tchaï-Ekbat-De-Sebat dept.

martyb writes:

Researchers Claim Great Pyramid can Focus Electromagnetic Waves:

"Egyptian pyramids have always attracted great attention," said Andrey Evlyukhin, coauthor of the paper and an egghead at the ITMO University, Russia, earlier this week. "We as scientists were interested in them as well, so we decided to look at the Great Pyramid as a particle dissipating radio waves resonantly."

Computational models revealed that the pyramid's internal chambers and base were shaped in a way that can potentially concentrate radio waves using the phenomenon of resonance. Specifically, Evlyukhin asserted, the structure's inner spaces and foundation resonate when hit by external radio waves with a wavelength of 200 to 600 metres, and can control the propagation, scattering, and concentration of this electromagnetic energy.

[...] according to the paper:

It is revealed that the Pyramid's chambers can collect and concentrate electromagnetic energy ... At the shorter wavelengths, the electromagnetic energy accumulates in the chambers providing local spectral maxima for electric and magnetic fields. It is shown that basically the Pyramid scatters the electromagnetic waves and focuses them into the substrate region.

The full journal article is freely available:

"Electromagnetic properties of the Great Pyramid: First multipole resonances and energy concentration" Journal of Applied Physics 124, 034903 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5026556

Did the researchers really find something here, or is this just a light-hearted jab at new-age crystal woo-woo?

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• LOL LOL (Score: 3, Funny) by epitaxial on Friday August 03 2018, @04:48PM (3 children)

  by epitaxial (3165) on Friday August 03 2018, @04:48PM (#716796)

  200m to 600m is pretty much the AM broadcast band. Wonder who the Egyptian Art Bell was back then?

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• Re:LOL (Score: 3, Funny) by Alfred on Friday August 03 2018, @06:37PM

  by Alfred (4006) on Friday August 03 2018, @06:37PM (#716857) Journal

  "See the thing is, the Pharaoh doesn't control the Nile, he's not really a god. He can't make it flood or not, it's all just a show. Ever notice how it floods every year anyway? Pharaoh is just some guy and not even the top guy. He is just a figurehead, the face of the government that is really being run behind the scenes by his circle of High Priests. Their the guys you have to look out for. All the power and none of the responsibility of looking like you're in charge. These are the same guys who don't want you learn to read and write. They want to keep that for themselves and some scribes. Why are the scribes so special? Why do they get the cushy jobs? Even if you are the best scribe it still is a case of who-knows-you. The High Priests line up cushy scribe gigs for their kids. They're not gonna give that away to the common folk, no. That's why they need a Royal Class to keep them separate and special. They are keeping you down. Remember what they did to the Israelites? They were slaves. When they left Pharaoh needed slaves so he just enslaved Egyptians. Well it wasn't Pharaoh who needed the slaves. It was the priests because they are the one really running the government because they know stuff the Pharaoh doesn't and Pharaoh needs them or he can't pull of his Nile flooding miracles right and he needs that to stay in power. Sure Pharaoh still has some power, have you seen those other pyramids he is building. I wonder what those are for. Nobody, and I mean nobody, needs that much rock just to be buried in. I hear reports that the contractor is cheating anyway, that he is using cement in some places instead of hewn stone. This is another government kickback program, somebody is getting rich from my taxes. My contacts say they are already planning another one. I also have word that there are some workers on the project that are not from around here, what gives? Couldn't find enough local guys that you had to bring in others from who knows where? And the priests, what are they getting out of this? There has to be some big perks from running a shadow government. Next hour we have more news of strange attacks and cattle mutilations from beyond the Cataract. Stay tuned!"

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• Re:LOL Re:LOL (Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Friday August 03 2018, @06:54PM (1 child)

  by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday August 03 2018, @06:54PM (#716885)

  I posit that if you start this study looking for a resonant frequency, you're gonna find one, somewhere. It's a regular shape, some wavelength or another will concentrate energy in interesting places.

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  • Re:LOL (Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Saturday August 04 2018, @08:00AM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday August 04 2018, @08:00AM (#717158) Journal

    Yep, and being symmetric entails that the resonance is likely found in a not random place. But, if it happens to be right on a chamber, it's interesting. Of course the chamber itself is going to interfere with its mere presence. I think that a good approach to avoid bias would be to feed some randomly generated pyramid shapes with randomly placed chambers to the resonance data analysis tool, and see if the real pyramid statistically stands out for some property.

     

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