Don Barone Wrote:
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> " ... They have conclusively shown there were no
> internal ramps ... "
>
> Hmmm .... Now how the devil could they prove
> anything conclusively in regards to the pyramid
> without dismantling it ?
>
> Jean Pierre might beg to differ ...

I hope you don't feel like I'm sniping at you. I have a great deal of respect for your work and believe at least some will stand the test of time.

No sloped lines appear on the thermal scans. No voids show up in the right places in the muon scan to support his specific theory. The specific theory is disproven and the entire concept becomes unworkable in light of this new evidence. This isn't to say that it's impossible for there to have been internal ramps just that they have been positively shown to be unevidenced. In order for such ramps to exist they have to be more than ~40' inside the pyramid or they would have conducted enough heat up to the corners to be visible. Since they aren't visible they don't exist. Ramps farther inside than what appears could only have reached about the 375'.

Ramps are inconsistent with the evidence that does exist and with the new data that show a linear void extending under the gables at the entrance. It is merely incidental that a chamber just inside has been disproven because a chamber might exist even further inside making his hypothesis still workable. But remember the hypothesis sprang from the observation there were gables so it's not justified; the gables are obviously for a different purpose than relieving weight.

I hate to see Houdin shown to be wrong as much as anyone but the fact is there is no chamber and no internal ramps. The niches on the NE corner are most likely part of a general system of weight relief in this region and have nothing to do with ramps internal or otherwise.



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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.