Posted on 07/25/2015 6:00:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For any magic trick or other illusion, just figure out how you would do it. Chances are that’s how the mysterious achiever did it too.
The coral castle is vaguely familiar to me, but I have often wondered how puzzling it might be to someone else if I chose to move something heavy around by simply putting a pad of ice under it. Just move it into place and then leave it alone.
How do you 'simply' put a pad of ice under a 30 ton rock ?
How do you put a wire under it?
Why would you want to ?
That was the implication; that Edward Leedskalnin had developed some method of moving stones using a combination of electricity and magnetism, or some side effect of them.
It would be fun to play with some of that stuff, but I'll never get around to it. We might discover that charging up the stones caused them to vibrate in some manner and then move the way washing machines with an unbalanced load will move. It is interesting, but it is also clear that Ancient Egyptians did not use that technique, and did not need to. They had engineers.
I suspect that most of the pyramid stones were cubical, and according to the tale I related in the poem on my about page, there was a reason for the stone to be cubical.
My expressed theory is that the stones were made into wheels by putting arc-faces of wood on them, like a strap-on wooden pallet, and then using thick ropes and teams of strong men to move the stones.
The art of the assembly came at the last turning, when the stone block would be rotated into its final rest position in precisely the right location, exactly adjacent to its neighbor with no room at all between them. Stones would have to be set several times each hour to keep up the pace, and the engineers would not only be in competition with each other, but also with their own previous records.
I don't have any idea how they got paid, but you can bet that the better job they did, the more reward they got for doing it.
Giorgio knows ...
My expressed theory is that the stones were made into wheels by putting arc-faces of wood on them, like a strap-on wooden pallet, and then using thick ropes and teams of strong men to move the stones.
A logical and possible conclusion. However, transportation is just one aspect of building the pyramids.
On the issue of Coral Castle, you and I seem to be in agreement. Neither of us has a clue how one man did all that. Twice.
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