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Comment by tomkinstinch | Hacker News Reader

Curious that Luis Alvarez (yes, that Luis Albarez) and his team did not find it in their 1970 exploration using a similar approach[1].

1. http://lappweb.in2p3.fr/~chefdevi/Work_LAPP/Arche/alvarez_70...

Edit: Thanks to jbmouret for pointing out Alvarez studied a different pyramid in the same complex!

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Alvarez was in a different pyramid (Kephren) and from a single point of view.

Also, the precision of the detectors improved a lot since the sixties (this is the kind of detectors that are used in the LHC, for instance).

Yes, this work is clearly based on the cosmic ray muon detector approach that Nobel prize winner Luis Alvarez developed in the 1970’s, and looks to be a significant effort that would need considerable international support to accomplish, so somebody obviously thinks there is reason to believe Luie’s team missed something.

In addition to the results, I’m very interested to understand what led them to think there might have been something missed in the analysis of the great pyramid of Khufu/Cheops.

It's worth watching this video overview of the work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-MOGw0RMo

Key takeaways that might answer why the original team missed the clues... note the Simulation results from the Japanese team. Throughout the video it's clear they're chasing the scent of information through data analaysis and visualisation.

I think the Hololens stuff at the end is a little fluffy but it speaks to the tools scientists and engineers have available today versus the 70's

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