What if an ancient mystery held the key to a brand new discovery in modern science?
That’s exactly what has happened in Egypt, where scientists are studying the famous Great
Pyramid of Giza.
They’ve found it acts as a giant conductor for electromagnetic energy and believe this
breakthrough will help them in the field of nano-particle research.
Before getting into the nitty gritty of this exciting development, it’s best to look
at the Ancient Egyptian pyramids themselves and what they represent.
The pyramids are a marvel of engineering that remain mysterious to this day, and the Great
Pyramid is a classic example of this.
481 feet high, it was built on the orders of Pharaoh Khufu, with work thought to have
started in 2550 BC.
It is made of approximately 2 million stone blocks and each one weighs anything up to
15 tons.
All in all, three pyramids were erected in the city between then and 2490 BC, but Khufu’s
is the biggest.
Not only that, it’s also the oldest of that exclusive club known as the Seven Wonders
of the World!
The Great Pyramid was built as Khufu’s tomb, and contained items that a Pharaoh wanted
when travelling to the afterlife, where he would expect to become a god.
These included food, water and internal organs, which were placed into jars for safe keeping!
The interiors of the pyramids are special, not only for the way they show us how Egyptians
died but also for how they lived.
They contain many cultural details that have become an important reference point for experts.
Inside the Great Pyramid are three chambers.
Two of them are thought to have housed the bodies of Khufu and his wife and there’s
another chamber beneath the base.
For some reason this chamber isn’t finished.
However not everyone agrees with what is actually inside a pyramid.
It’s believed there are secret networks we have yet to uncover.
In exploring these possibilities, experts stumbled on an unexpected development.
It started last year, when thermal imaging was used to establish the existence of the
third chamber, which up to then no-one knew about.
When the base of the pyramid was thermally scanned it revealed three stones that were
higher in temperature than the surrounding stonework.
The signs pointed toward a hidden area.
That was finally identified as the third chamber when the base was scanned with what are called
muon particles, which are like electrons.
Researchers from ITMO University in St Petersburg then began examining the effect of electromagnetic
energy on the shape of the Great Pyramid.
No-one really knows why the pyramids are the shape they are.
Opinion varies but one theory is that the shape is like a slope that the Pharaoh can
climb to reach the next life.
That can’t be proved but what can be demonstrated is the effect of electromagnetic energy on
that distinctive triangle formation.
What is electromagnetic energy?
It’s a natural form of energy that derives from the Sun, the Earth and the ionosphere,
which is a layer of the planet’s atmosphere.
Devices such as TVs and radios use it, and it was first identified in 1820.
A Dutch physicist named Hans Christian Orsted observed a compass needle being affected by
a nearby battery.
The connection between the electric and the magnetic was now part of science history.
ITMO researchers decided to think small…
quite literally!
They built a model of the Great Pyramid and tested it with electromagnetic waves of between
200 - 600 m.
What they discovered was that the pyramid focused the energy through the chambers and
into what’s known as the substrate.
The Great Pyramid’s substrate is made of limestone, and what it does is act as a natural
foundation.
All the electromagnetic energy is sent to this substrate.
Having worked out that the pyramid acts as a mighty conductor, scientists are now looking
into the effect on the design of nano-particles.
Nano-particles are of great interest to scientists because they have multiple uses in areas like
medicine, where it’s hoped drugs can be attached to them and used to better disperse
chemicals inside the human body.
The possibilities are almost endless and there’s still a lot of work to be done.
Experts don’t even know yet whether they can recreate the result of the pyramid experiment
on such a tiny level.
Plus in order to carry out the experiment they had to assume things about what is inside
the pyramid.
To this day people still aren’t 100% about that.
It could be there are elements inside that may compromise the team’s findings.
It’s a safe bet that the Ancient Egyptians were not aware of electromagnetism or nano-particles,
but that’s not a certainty!
As the mystery of the pyramids continues to be investigated maybe we’ll find they weren’t
as ancient as we thought they were.
As this current research shows, this long dormant culture is on the cutting edge of
scientific thinking.