“Simply put, physical objects will resist a change in their state of motion. This is called inertia.” (Leah Crane, of New Scientist).
The same concept applies to changing human behavior, and it’s strengthened when there’s a monetary incentive tied to existing behavior. Experts in every field are compensated for sticking with the established narrative because that attracts funding and often creates the most straightforward pathway to advancing your career. The inertia associated with both teaching history and science, are on display with the inconsistent and incoherent stories we are told when deeply investigating the history and origins of Ancient Egypt.
Jimmy Corsetti of the Bright Insight YouTube channel recently dove deeper into a topic briefly discussed in one of his earlier videos. As he highlighted the totality of inconsistencies surrounding the construction of the Great Pyramids, he mentioned the focus of this video; a stone that historians say was found in discarded rubble due to a mistake. This stone (seen below) is fascinating because the error seems to be a cut that was too deep to fix.
The cut is significant when you consider the explanation for how Egyptians are supposed to be cutting the stone. At the 1:32 second mark of the enlightening video, he shares a clip of the scientists trying to re-enact the most accepted method in real life. In the demonstration, they show it is done at 4mm per hour in the real world – meaning less than one inch for every 6 hours of work. The depth of the inaccuracy in this block demonstrates that the explanation we’re given for how they cut granite stones does not make sense since granite is one of the world’s densest and most unbreakable materials. The cutting would have halted days before the mistake got that deep as soon as the error was noticed.
Not only are we missing a good explanation of how the stones were cut, but we don’t really understand how the stones were transported from their origins to the construction site. As previously discussed, the largest ship ever discovered in Ancient Egypt, found at the bottom of the pyramid, couldn’t support a fraction of the weight of many of the blocks in the 2.3M granite and limestone blocks in the pyramid. Historians teach us the debate is settled on how the Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids. Very little money or time has been dedicated to looking into different construction methods because we’ve accepted nonsensical explanations. The absurd and easily disproven explanations are printed in textbooks and incorporated into curriculums, so teachers and historians are unwilling to go against the grain.
It’s hypothetically possible that discovering the methods used to construct the pyramids could open up worlds of science that are not being explored. According to Nikola Tesla, “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in a decade than in all previous centuries of its existence.” He is one of the most underappreciated people in history that prophesized and made significant contributions to the development of electricity, smartphones, and much of the technology we enjoy today. However, most people do not realize that he believed “the great pyramids were giant transmitters of energy. He built Tesla Towers according to laws inspired by studying the pyramids.” (Paul Ratner, BigThink). Those towers did go on to generate electricity.
See below for his full video.
