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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?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by darkfeline on Friday August 03 2018, @08:10PM
Could just be p-hacking. You could take literally anything and find something strange or interesting or weird about it.
This shard of glass refracts light into a triangle if you hold it five feet away. This toast looks like Jesus. This lake is shaped like an eye. This tree reflects infrared light in such a way as to create a blurry image of Ramses on infrared sensitive film placed on this rock.
If the Pyramid wasn't focusing EM waves, maybe it's directing wind in a swastika path, or the thermal image at noon looks like E.T., or the whistling of wind sounds like 666 when recorded and played backwards at 0.75 speed. There's always something.
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