Hi Pistol,

Interestingly, a stone ball was discovered in one of the QC shafts which inevitably has a mass equal to the volume of a sphere of radius 'r' (with 'r' calculated for a sphere with the same density as the ball so as to have the same volume).

The mass of the ball was published in Nature shortly after discovery (and the approximate diameter), and it seemed to me that the radius might be significant.

It would be necessary to determine the density of the ball, and fortunately the igneous stone ball is impervious, so its volume could be determined by immersion in water, from which the volume and density could be determined. The volume could then be used to calculate the radius of a hypothetical sphere, and the density would help classify the type of rock.

I expect anyone willing to make a donation to the British Museum and to fund an experimental determination at say a university in London, or the Institute of Geological Sciences could end up with a significant result, and potentially an academic paper.

The volume of a sphere could have been determined by empirical means without knowledge of a pi approximation.

I did a presentation on the QC at BEC 2008 in Liverpool, then a website in 2013, but didn't find anything related to a sphere.

I have an explanation for the dimensions of the burial chamber in Khafre's pyramid, but not related to a sphere. I didn't manage to work out the significance of unusual geometric ratios in the sarcophagus.

I didn't find anything related to a sphere in the Bent Pyramid or the Red Pyramid, but I thought both had geometric features based on a circle.

I don't have a problem with the design of a pyramid as a unique design. The geometric aspects of the huge pyramids are so different.

Mark

PS
I think I posted a topic on the stone ball a number of years ago.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/2022 01:15PM by Mark Heaton.