What's Hiding Inside Egypt's Great Pyramid? Tiny Robots May Find Out
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Is the soul carried in the blimp, or dragged by the robot?
These buildings were pretty much the apparent apex of their purported builders’ architectural capability, and yet somehow sit right at the beginning of that civilisation's timeline. They're supposedly funerary but no bodies were ever found inside. Ancient Egyptians are renown for using decorating internal surfaces with hieroglyphs and yet the inside of the pyramids is almost devoid of them (save for, as far as I know, two counter-examples: one at the apex of the relieving chamber, with a possibility that it was a later addition, and one on the far side of the Queen's Chamber's shaft's door, which is definitely original to the time of construction). Meanwhile nearby the Sphinx has its oddly disproportionate human head (that might be a successive re-carving of a properly-proportioned lion head) and there's signs that at least some geologists reckon is water erosion, pushing the dates back significantly.
Of course, this is very much the domain of conspiracy theories and alternative histories, but I'd very much appreciate a definitive, non-self-referential answer to the question, something along the lines of “this piece of wood that has been trapped in here since the time this monument was built is N thousand years old” without any chance for debating the facts. The theories that do not accomodate for that demonstrable fact will finally be required to be revised or will fall by the wayside.
I’m always excited when something, particularly a prevalent opinion, can be put to a definitive test. I'm always excited by which new explanations might be required if the prevalent opinion is found wanting.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/ancient/cosmic-ray-muons-r...
Neutrinos passes through most matter like nothing. You need a super large underground water tank to detect it.
One side of the pyramid would have the emitter. The other side, would have the receptor. And you bombard the pyramid with trillions and trillions of neutrinos, and collect the statistics. Then from this, it might help you formulate an image, and allow you to see what is inside the pyramid.
The next question is: How do you create a neutrino?
According to this video, it seems you can make a neutrino beam from a particle accelerator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_xWDWKq1CM
Again, IANAPS, I am not a particle scientist.
> In the vicinity of the Earth, about 65 billion (6.5×10^10) solar neutrinos per second pass through every square centimeter perpendicular to the direction of the Sun.[1]
Given that each side of the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza is 230.4 meters long, that means it's 5,308,416 cm^2; if the Sun is directly overhead, that means something like:
5,308,416 x 6.5x10^10 / 10^12 = 345,047.04
345,047.04 trillion neutrinos would be passing through the pyramid every second.
The problem is detecting them.[2]
What OP is proposing, I think, is a mobile point emitter and mobile detector. Move these around the pyramid and you can create an array of lines that determine the density through the pyramid on that axis. Rotate the entire setup around the pyramid to generate intersecting lines, and you could build up a map.
Of course, the pyramid is also moving around the sun, so you do have a distant point source of neutrinos, but not a very consistent or convenient one.
And, of course, the detectors are really difficult. Not exactly something you can hang from a quadcopter and fly around the pyramid... :)
https://www.nature.com/news/cosmic-ray-particles-reveal-secr...
They found a previously unknown 30-meter void inside the Great Pyramid.
Powerful neutron sources are not to played around with though. Here is a 50 ton shipping cask for 1g! of Ca-252 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CfShield.JPG
You could walk through all of the strange passages of the pyramids one minute and then be looking at Earth from the surface of the moon the next.
However, I still want to travel and experience places that are not man-made. I love to hike and there are trails all over the world I'd like to explore.