Ronald,
Even if I didn't know "exactly how the pyramid was built", it would not change the fact that ancient Egyptians had a very specific reason for building the chambers inside the pyramids the way they did. It takes very little research to figure that out.
Now, let's put an end to this discussion once and for all.
If indeed the pyramid of Khufu, specifically, had been built up sort of "willy nilly", just laying one layer atop another, with the chambers being decided as they went along, and the course sizes being a product of nothing but the number of stones that got dragged into position that day, then you have to answer something very specific here:
How come the first course of the pyramid... the one that, quite obviously, was placed first in the pyramid and was most obvious for everyone (including the king) to see first hand... is (virtually) 1/100th the finished height of the final structure?
I couldn't immediately remember where I had read this (as usual, I pay no attention to the author and I still don't have my library digitized). It's actually kind of funny as it turns out.
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...it was noted that the first course of the Khufu pyramid -- comprising the tallest core blocks in the structure -- is 57.6 inches tall on the southwest corner and 58.6 inches on the northeast. This first course is almost twenty-percent taller than the next tallest courses, the second and thirty-fifth. Taken on its own, this number appears relatively meaningless. However, it is not beyond reason to conclude that this odd number, which is not a "whole cubit" number, is symbolic in nature. the first course is almost exactly one-one hundredth of the overall height of the finished pyramid -- 5,776 inches. If, indeed, this was intentional, it shows that the Egyptians who built the pyramid knew before the project began exactly how high the finished monument would be.
KMT, Fall, 2002. Counting the Stones in Khufu's Pyramid at Giza
There was no guesswork here. This monument was meticulously planned from the outset. If that's not good enough for you, then you should probably take a look at www.cheops.org. Rudolph has an excellent section on the gridwork plan that was, in all likelihood, used to lay out the entire architecture of Khufu's pyramid. The 7:11 grid is, within building tolerances, a perfectly valid explanation for how they originally designed the building on papyrus and then scaled it up to the final project.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.