November 14, 2020 03:52AM
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I've had a look through some Academic databases (the free ones that is - students rightly complain that the large, subscription-based organisations are far too expensive). So far I can find only a few technical patents by Gantenbrink. Take a look at Google Scholar for instance - it lists the afore-mentioned patents, but the two references to Gantenbrink's shaft work are merely references to his own site. These entries are followed by an endless list of articles and papers citing Gantenbrink's work as if it were gospel - see for yourself. It is concerning if hearsay rather than evidence can dominate Egyptological research.
But what of the support of Gantenbrink by the late Rainer Stadelmann? The latter was a respected scientist who surely would not have accepted Gantenbrink's ideas without first examining the evidence. Or would he?
It is noteworthy that articles promoting Gantenbrink's ideas say very little about astronomy. Gantenbrink rejected astronomical ideas vehemently and promoted his geometric shaft plan. On his site , and Legon's (where has that gone by the way?), and Djedi, and in the manner of obfuscating journalists, a series of straw men are introduced to suggest that the purpose of the shafts has been studied from all angles before arriving at the preferred idea - does anyone here still promote the comical 'ventilation' hypothesis? However the proposed geometry of the shafts does not sit well with the known geometry of the pyramid, other than my observation that the vertical component of the KC shaft convergence point is given by the root two construction on the height of the pyramid. But this is already a very long thread dedicated to one simple question and airing opinions about the shafts perhaps best left to a new thread.
I think it is important to hold back and continue our efforts to establish once and for all that Gantenbrink has not published survey data, before declaring the emperor has no clothes. I wish it were not true and that evidence to back him up might yet exist. By questioning favourite memes we shall undoubtedly receive opprobrium but at least shall have demonstrated how opinions can become facts without foundation, which might give any future researcher pause for thought.
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