Dusk. You are up from a late afternoon nap.
Carol arrived home from her Blue Ash Retirement luncheon with Ann and Mary at
Ferrari's Little Italy and Bakery in Madeira, Ohio. While she was gone you
binge watched a few episodes of "Stranger Things.2" Before that you
had your Tri-Health physical therapy
with Chelsea at the Mason Community Center, and earlier this morning you had
your blood redrawn by order of Dr. B. - Amorella
1843 hours. Carol is watching one of her DVRed shows after which we were planning on getting a
Graeter's. My copper bracelet arrived by mail from Amazon quicker than thought
it would. It doesn't exactly fit but I have begun wearing it. This is one of
those nothing to lose arthritic adventures. I have my Apple watch on my left
wrist and the copper bracelet on my right -- all decorated up. Chelsea helped
me how to rise from a chair from my legs, like I am lifting weights rather than
from my back; believe it or not it helps. Now I have to focus on that.
You both had left over meatloaf for supper while
watching NBC and ABC national news after which you watched this week's "The
Blacklist" and "The This Old House Hour" on PBS Dayton, plus the
last fifteen minutes of "Rachel Maddock". - Amorella
2220
hours. During my earlier nap I had rumbling dreams caused by viewing several
episodes of "Stranger Things". I am sure this is because the points
of views of several realities as seen by the characters as well as the two
fictional realities presented "normal" an "upside down". I
find myself in the sliding of realities. I am reminded of being in a lab and
seeing one of three slides under a microscope -- one is a slide of fictional
reality, another slide is upside down and the third slide is reality as it is,
that is, as we see it but not necessarily how it actual is because we do not
know how real, real reality is because our physical and mental realities give
us points of view. Normal reality is what we accept as real as human beings;
but accepting is based on science, at least my reality is based on science and the
word of knowledgeable people and/or their scientific observations. But long ago
many people accepted the concept that the world was flat. Today we know better.
I think that in another few thousand years we will know even better. Today
there was a BBC article on the Great Pyramid.
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Science
& Environment - BBC
'Big void' identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
·
The mysteries of the pyramids have deepened with the discovery
of what appears to be a giant void within the Khufu, or Cheops, monument in
Egypt.
It is not known why the cavity exists or indeed if it holds
anything of value because it is not obviously accessible.
Japanese and French scientists made the announcement after two
years of study at the famous pyramid complex.
They have been using a technique called muography, which can
sense density changes inside large rock structures.
The Great Pyramid, or Khufu's Pyramid, was constructed during
the reign of Pharaoh Khufu between 2509 and 2483 BC.
At 140m (460 feet) in height, it is the largest of the Egyptian
pyramids located at Giza on the outskirts of Cairo.
· ScanPyramids
has already detected a smaller void on the northern face
· The new
cavity is perhaps 30m long and several metres in height
· All three
muon technologies sense the same feature in the same place
Khufu famously contains three large interior chambers and a
series of passageways, the most striking of which is the 47m-long, 8m-high
Grand Gallery.
The newly identified feature is said to sit directly above this
and have similar dimensions.
"We don't know whether this big void is horizontal or
inclined; we don't know if this void is made by one structure or several
successive structures," explained Mehdi Tayoubi from the HIP Institute,
Paris.
"What we are sure about is that this big void is there;
that it is impressive; and that it was not expected as far as I know by any
sort of theory."
The ScanPyramids
team is being very careful not to describe the cavity as a
"chamber".
Khufu contains compartments that experts believe may have been
incorporated by the builders to avoid collapse by relieving some of the stress
of the overlying weight of stone.
The higher King's Chamber, for example, has five such spaces
above it.
The renowned American archaeologist Mark Lehner sits on a panel
reviewing ScanPyramids' work.
He says the muon science is sound but he is not yet convinced
the discovery has significance.
"It could be a kind of space that the builders left to
protect the very narrow roof of the grand gallery from the weight of the
pyramid," he told the BBC's
Science In Action programme.
"Right now it's just a big difference; it's an anomaly. But
we need more of a focus on it especially in a day and age when we can no longer
go blasting our way through the pyramid with gunpowder as [British]
Egyptologist Howard Vyse did in the early 1800s."
One of the team leaders, Hany Helal from Cairo University,
believes the void is too big to have a pressure-relieving purpose, but concedes
the experts will debate this.
"What we are doing is trying to understand the internal
structure of the pyramids and how this pyramid has been built," he told
reporters.
"Famous Egyptologists, archaeologists and architects - they
have some hypotheses. And what we are doing is giving them data. It is they who
have to tell us whether this is expected or not."
Much of the uncertainty comes down to the rather imprecise data
gained from muography.
This non-invasive technique has been developed over the past 50
years to probe the interiors of phenomena as diverse as volcanoes and glaciers.
It has even been used to investigate the failed nuclear reactors at Fukushima.
Muography makes use of the shower of high-energy particles that
rain down on the Earth's surface from space.
When super-fast cosmic rays collide with air molecules, they
produce a range of "daughter" particles, including muons.
These also move close to the speed of light and only weakly
interact with matter. So when they reach the surface, they penetrate deeply
into rock.
But some of the particles will be absorbed and deflected by the
atoms in the rock's minerals, and if the muon detectors are placed under a
region of interest then a picture of density anomalies can be obtained.
The ScanPyramids team used three different muography
technologies and all three agreed on the position and scale of the void.
Sébastien Procureur, from CEA-IRFU, University of Paris-Saclay, emphasised
that muography only sees large features, and that the team's scans were not
just picking up a general porosity inside the pyramid.
"With muons you measure an integrated density," he
explained. "So, if there are holes everywhere then the integrated density
will be the same, more or less, in all directions, because everything will be
averaged. But if you see some excess of muons, it means that you have a bigger
void.
"You don't get that in a Swiss cheese."
The question now arises as to how the void should be
investigated further.
Jean-Baptiste Mouret, from the French national institute for
computer science and applied mathematics (Inria), said the team had an idea how
to do it, but that the Egyptian authorities would first have to approve it.
- "Our concept is to
drill a very small hole to potentially explore monuments like this. We aim
to have a robot that could fit in a 3cm hole. Basically, we're working on
flying robots," he said.
- Selected and edited from BBC
2 November 2017
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This is of your personal interest. A very
tried but true fictional story would have an alien UFO discovered within the
walls. It's been done more or less in the fourth Indiana Jones film. Some
people around the world would hope beyond hope that this may be true, that is,
that it may be a reality. How is this different from people hoping and praying
Jesus will return one day? - Amorella
2244
hours. I would rather not go there, Amorella.
That's the reason I dropped it in, boy. -
Amorella
2245 hours. It says I would not to speak of an unknown and highly implausible
'religious truth'.
You see how you are no different than other
people. Your thoughts may be different but Homo sapiens you are, at least
ninety five percent so (according to recent knowledge). - Amorella
Hope is a condition of humanity that is the truth of it. What one may
hope though can also become a condition which demands a conditioned response. You
and others observe this reality most every day. It is a basic human condition
that for each everyday reality will stop. This is what you are really focusing
on here. The 'here and now' and the past here and now begin and end with living
Homo sapiens and findings of now dead Homo sapiens. Is this not so? - Amorella
2258
hours. Thank you for clearing my thinking. You say my thoughts much clearer
than I do.
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