Kanga Wrote:
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> Larry Pahl is a fringie/pseudoarchaologist. In his
> articles list, he has written about how Khufu's
> pyramid encodes the speed of light in metres per
> second ...

From the abstract of "Review copy of Speed of Light in the Great Pyramid Passages and Chambers":

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Measurements in meters taken from known and prominent features of the Great Pyramid of Giza, when placed in a rational order based on the orientation and common understanding of its existing passage systems, yield the numbers in the speed of light given in meters per second in a vacuum: 299,792,458.i

I know of no evidence that the AE had any notion whatsoever about such a concept as the speed of light - [en.wikipedia.org] - the discovery of which didn't come about until the modern era, with the work of people like Clerk Maxwell and Einstein.

AE measures (cubits, digits, etc.) - [en.wikipedia.org] and Greek measures (daktylos, pous, etc.) - [en.wikipedia.org] - are widely believed to have developed from measurements of parts of the human body.

All available evidence points to the GP being built as a tomb for Khufu, laid out in cubits (and built by workers in teams known as aperu). As a civil engineering achievement, the construction was known and admired in the ancient world, including Greece; it's possible that peope like Thales - [en.wikipedia.org] - had heard about the GP, and had contact with Egyptian scholars, from whom he might have learnt about geometric concepts. However, it appears that the Greeks made much wider use, and application, of geometry than the AE had. Greek knowledge than influenced Classical Rome, whose influence is argued by some - [www.jstor.org] - to have slowly seeped through Europe, and in turn influenced definitions of mediaeval measures that differed from region to region. In England, they eventually developed into a system that included, e.g., the inch, foot and yard.

The metre, meanwhile, [en.wikipedia.org], was not defined until 1791. I know of no evidence that such a dimension was known in AE. The modern definition is:

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... one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle ...

So, to come up with such a measure, the AE would have had to measure that particular distance. But developments in the recognition of the earth as a sphere, and suggestions by such people as Aristotle about its measurement, did not really come about until the late 1st millennium BC, in Greece: a good 2,000 years after the construction of the GP.

My own view is that Larry Pahl might be well advised to reconsider the evidence for some of his conclusions.

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