Amazing Marvels of the Ages
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AnthonyT,
The exact passage from the book regarding X-raying the pyramids:
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In 1968 Egyptian and American scientists X-rayed the pyramid, in the hope of detecting hitherto undiscovered chambers inside it. After more than a year they gave up, because their findings made no sense. Records made with the same equipment from the same point on successive days showed totally different ray-patterns. The head of the project called the results 'scientifically impossible' and said that 'there is some force that defies the laws of science at work in the pyramid'.
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Did they try using low frequency sonars instead of X Rays? Or low/very low/extremely low frequency radio waves?
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Don't have a clue to be honest...
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Well,
Given that a lead sheet a couple of millimeters thick can stop X-rays, I'd think that X-raying something as huge and dense as a pyramid would yield no results. I'd actually assume that from the outset. I wouldn't X-ray the Trump tower either, you know?
Maybe I'm terribly ignorant about X-rays, having only experience from one side of the patient/doctor wall, but X-rays seem like the wrong tool to study the interior dimensions of a building... at least at the levels commonly found on the x-ray equipment I'm familiar with.
--Anthony
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Thats not really true. X-rays are used on buildings all the time...
In fact X-rays are far more penetrating than you may think. As for why lead stops x-rays:
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X-rays interact strongly with electrons. You may know that lead is good at blocking X-rays. Well, that's because each lead atom has 82 electrons and lead is a metal, so the atoms are packed together pretty close. Lead stops X-rays because it has a large electron density.
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