The Giza Power Plant Page 17
Back in my hotel room, I rewound the tape, played it back, and discovered three very interesting acoustical phenomena. First, the tape had picked up overtones to the note I was humming in the King's Chamber. I had been unable to hear them while I was in the chamber because I was the source of the sound. This was a very exciting discovery, as it supported my theory on the King's Chamber. I tempered my enthusiasm, however, with the thought that it might be the equipment that was resonating at a higher frequency and generating this overtone. Mine was not a very expensive tape recorder, but still I believe the overtones were generated by the chamber complex itself (including the granite ceiling beams) because of the King's Chamber's true design and purpose. The second discovery revealed that when I was on the Great Step at the top of the Grand Gallery yelling to have the lights turned off and then humming the tone, the playback sounded as if I had never left the room. At that moment, except for a small passageway, there were thousands of tons of granite and limestone that separated me from the recorder, and my voice was being projected into a 28-foot-high and 157-foot-long expanse of space. The third revelation was that the footsteps and noises I made, while traversing the low passage to and from the Grand Gallery, reverberated in the King's Chamber and caused it to resonate at its natural frequency. This was noted on the Matrix monochromatic tuner that was turned on as I played back the tape. My footsteps and noises were registering at approximately 440 Hz. I particularly noted that the fluctuations of the tuner during this section of the playback were not as great as those I had observed inside the King's Chamber when I was humming the frequency.
On June 8, 1997, I was discussing these phenomena with Stephen Mehler, the director of research for the Kinneman Foundation. In February 1997 after appearing with Mehler on a television panel discussion in Santa Barbara, California, I had sent him an abstract of my theory regarding the Great Pyramid. He told me about an acoustics engineer named Robert Vawter who had done some studio analysis of a tape recording that he (Mehler) had made inside the King's Chamber. As he related it to me, those results were the same as mine. I was given Vawter's phone number and promptly gave him a call. Vawter confirmed what Mehler told me. He said that he had digitally processed the tape provided by Mehler, and he was able to isolate harmonic overtones of the intoned frequency. Vawter claimed that the King's Chamber was designed specifically as a resonant chamber in which sound of specific frequencies would resonate. He said that every dimensional feature of the chamber he had studied indicated the manifestation and form of harmonic resonance. He was in the process of compiling data to support his statement and will be publishing his findings in the future.
While I was discussing with Mehler my experience inside the King's Chamber and the noise of the tourists as they were leaving the pyramid, he related a report by Howard-Vyse, who claimed that he was in the King's Chamber and was able to hear a conversation taking place in the Subterranean Pit. Vawter confirmed the speculation that this is because the entire interior passageway was designed to maximize the throughput of sound. This same phenomenon is well known at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. The Whispering Gallery has surprised many a visitor, who hears a voice and turns around to see who is speaking, only to find no one there. The gallery is circular, with walls made of hard material. The sound of a person speaking in a low voice on one side of the gallery will be reflected around the circular wall, just grazing the hard surface, and can be heard on the other side of the gallery. The angle of incidence ensures total reflection of the sound.
With this experimental evidence available, and with what can be extrapolated from the dimensions and mass of the Great Pyramid, we have an object that fits the criteria established as necessary for an object to draw vibrations from the Earth. That object is the Great Pyramid of Giza! Here is the product of an ancient civilization empowered with the knowledge that as long as the moon continued to orbit the Earth, the special relationship that existed between the two assured the Egyptians of vast amounts of energy. The source of the energy is the Earth itself, in the form of seismic energy. The ancient Egyptians saw tremendous value in this form of energy and expended a considerable amount of effort to tap into it. The benefits they received may have been twofold: energy to fuel their civilization, and the ability to stabilize the Earth's crust by drawing off seismic energy over a period of time rather than allowing it to build up to destructive levels.
Covering a large land area, the Great Pyramid is, in fact, in harmonic resonance with the vibration of the Earth—a structure that could act as an acoustical horn for collecting, channeling, and/or focusing terrestrial vibration. We are led to consider, therefore, that energy associated with the pyramid shape is not drawn from the air or magically generated simply by the geometric form of a pyramid, but that the pyramid acts as a receiver of energy from within the Earth itself. It could be, also, that these infrasonic sound waves provide an explanation for the physical phenomena some people have felt when entering the Great Pyramid. The "pyramid energy" that has inspired countless numbers of people since the time of Napoleon may be the effects of infrasonic sound on the brain, which is said to resonate at around 6 hertz.
I experienced the phenomenon myself while in Egypt in 1986. After being inside the Great Pyramid for about an hour, I found myself in a rather uncomfortable situation. Sick and in immediate need of a bathroom, I really did not know if I was going to make it; but I rushed out of the King's Chamber, down the Grand Gallery and Ascending Passage, squeezing past tourists. Once outside I ran down the hill to the Mena House and headed straight for the bathroom. I made it just in time. The bathroom walls in the Mena House were constructed of Aswan granite. As I relaxed and closed my eyes, and without any external influence, the resonance of the King's Chamber filled my head. At the same time a pyramid shape began to glow in the center of my forehead. It was only after leaving the Mena House that this sensation faded. It could be that this phenomenon is only felt at certain times, according to the seismic activities within the Earth. I have not experienced it since then, although I have been inside the Great Pyramid several times since.
While infrasonic vibrations at around 6 hertz may influence the brain and produce various effects in humans, it seems that there must be other types of energy, or other frequencies, to explain phenomena that were noted to have occurred at the Great Pyramid more than one hundred years ago. Sir William Siemens, an Anglo-German engineer, metallurgist, and inventor, experienced a strange energy phenomenon at the Great Pyramid when an Arab guide called his attention to the fact that, while standing on the summit of the pyramid with hands outstretched, he could hear a sharp ringing noise. Raising his index finger, Siemens felt a prickling sensation. Later on, while drinking out of a wine bottle he had brought along, he experienced a slight electric shock. Feeling that some further observations were in order, Siemens then wrapped a moistened newspaper around the bottle, converting it into a Leyden jar. After he held it above his head for a while, this improvised Leyden jar became charged with electricity to such an extent that sparks began to fly. Reportedly, Siemens' Arab guides were not too happy with their tourist's experiment and accused him of practicing witchcraft. Peter Tompkins wrote, "One of the guides tried to seize Siemens' companion, but Siemens lowered the bottle towards him and gave the Arab such a jolt that he was knocked senseless to the ground. Recovering, the guide scrambled to his feet and took off down the Pyramid, crying loudly."13
M. Bovis, a Frenchman, visited the Great Pyramid and on passing through the King's Chamber he spotted some dead cats and other animals in a garbage can. Bovis noted that these animals did not have the usual putrid odor that is normally associated with decaying flesh and he became intrigued with this discovery, for the animals appeared to be dehydrated or mummified. Curious to find what conditions were creating this phenomenon, Bovis intuitively gave his attention to the actual shape of the pyramid. Upon his return to France, he constructed his own small pyramid, using a three-foot base and maintaining the precise 51°51' angle of th
e Great Pyramid. To his delight, he found that he could duplicate the mummification process he had observed in the pyramid and, taking his experiments further, he found that fruits and vegetables could be preserved also.
The phenomenon Bovis noted may indicate the presence of ultrasonic radiation within the pyramid. His claims, and those of other proponents of pyramid energy, seem to correlate, at first glance, with some applications that have been found for ultrasonic sound:
The aging of fermented beverages. It has been noted that wine tastes smoother after being treated with pyramid energy. A modern technique in speeding up the aging process in wine is to irradiate the wine with ultrasonic sound. Perhaps the smooth-tasting wine enjoyed by pyramid-energy enthusiasts was aged by the pyramid in much the same manner.
Medical therapy. One of the most frequent claims for pyramid energy is the therapeutic effect it has on people who subject themselves to its influence. Ultrasonics has claimed clinical successes in treating arthritis, muscular rheumatism, and sciatica.
The effect on bacteria and other microorganisms. Ultrasonic radiation of sufficient intensity may destroy bacteria and other microorganisms; and if the intensity is low, growth is stimulated.
Karl Drbal, a Czechoslovak radio technician, began experimenting with pyramids in the late 1940s. The experiments disclosed some interesting phenomena that prompted Drbal to apply for a patent. With his colleagues, Drbal discovered that the sharpness of a razor blade was maintained longer than normal when the blade was kept inside a pyramid structure. In 1949, he submitted his "Pharaohs Shaving Device" to the patent office, but the officers did not take the application seriously and turned it down. With this rejection, Drbal staunchly resolved to determine how the pyramid shape worked, and then to explain it to the world in physical terms.
Collaborating with Drbal to find answers to the pyramid question were some of the finest metallurgical experts in Europe. Dr. Carl Benedicks of Stockholm, Sweden, experimented on the effect water had on steel. His results showed that water reduced the steel's hardness by as much as twenty-two percent. Benedicks' tests on worn razor blades revealed that moisture in the microcavities diminished the sharpness of the blade, and to stop this deterioration, it was necessary to dispel the water dipole molecules from the blade's edge. Benedicks' findings were that the pyramid shape created a resonance or vibratory field. The resonance caused dehydration of the water in the microcavities of the blade, thereby allowing the blade to retain its sharpness.14
Professors Born and Lertes of Germany demonstrated that the dipole molecules of water were affected by microwave energy inside are sonant cavity such as a pyramid and that microwaves of centimeter wavelength and their harmonics can generate an accelerated rotation of the dipole molecules, initiating the dehydration process.15
Assuming these reports are accurate, they are strong indications that the Great Pyramid conducts a broad range of vibrational frequencies through its mass. When I consider the mathematical comparison of the dimensions of the Great Pyramid with the dimensions of the Earth, I am led to conclude that this correspondence was no coincidence, but was in fact the expressed intention of the builders. If the dimensions of the Earth determine the wave characteristics of vibrations emanating from the core, then it would obviously be beneficial to incorporate these dimensions in a receiver of these vibrations. The receiver would respond harmonically to the influence of the vibrations and be in a state of resonance with them. The energy of the Earth is tremendous. The seismic disturbances around the globe (for instance, an estimated one million earthquakes occur annually) and the awesome power released by a volcanic eruption attest to the magnitude of this Earth energy. And these accumulated stresses are a constant factor in the Earth's evolution.
Energy is the basis of creating electricity that we can utilize, so how can we harness the power of an earthquake? Obviously, today, if that much energy were being drawn from the Earth through the Great Pyramid, tourists would not be parading through it every day. In order for the system to work, the pyramid would need to be mechanically coupled with the Earth and vibrating in sympathy with it. To do this, the system would need to be "primed"—we would need to initiate oscillation of the pyramid before we could tap into the Earth's oscillations. After the initial priming pulse, though, the pyramid would be coupled with the Earth and could draw off its energy. In effect, the Great Pyramid would feed into the Earth a little energy and receive an enormous amount out of it in return (see Figure 35).
How do we cause a mass of stone that weighs 5,273,834 tons to oscillate? It would seem an impossible task. Yet there was a man in recent history who claimed he could do just that! Nikola Tesla, a physicist and inventor with more than six hundred patents to his credit—one of them being the AC generator—created a device he called an "earthquake machine." By applying vibration at the resonant frequency of a building, he claimed he could shake the building apart. In fact, it is reported that he had to turn his machine off before the building he was testing it in came down around him. The New York World-Telegram reported Tesla's comments from a news briefing at the hotel New Yorker on July 11, 1935:
FIGURE 35. Coupled Oscillator
I was experimenting with vibrations. I had one of my machines going and I wanted to see if I could get it in tune with the vibration of the building. I put it up notch after notch. There was a peculiar cracking sound.
I asked my assistants where did the sound come from. They did not know. I put the machine up a few more notches. There was a louder cracking sound. I knew I was approaching the vibration of the steel building. I pushed the machine a little higher.
Suddenly, all the heavy machinery in the place was flying around. I grabbed a hammer and broke the machine. The building would have been about our ears in another few minutes. Outside in the street there was pandemonium. The police and ambulances arrived. I told my assistants to say nothing. We told the police it must have been an earthquake. That's all they ever knew about it.
A reporter at that point asked Dr. Tesla what he would need to destroy the Empire State Building. Tesla replied:
Five pounds of air pressure. If I attached the proper oscillating machine on a girder that is all the force I would need, five pounds. Vibration will do anything. It would only be necessary to step up the vibration of the machine to fit the natural vibration of the building and the building would come crashing down. That's why soldiers break step crossing a bridge.16
Scientist Tom Bearden, in a paper to the International Tesla Society in 1988, went further with Tesla's research into using the Earth as a source for energy and proposed that "all that need be done to extract enormous energy is to input the 'grid signal' into the Earth, and receive the enormous 'plate signal' response. The standing S-wave is continuously replenished from the stress energy in the earth itself, so power may be extracted continuously."17 Bearden cautioned, however, that his model was based on an "idealized isotropic medium, and our results eventually must be modified to take into account the earth's anisotropy."18
By applying Tesla's technology in the Great Pyramid, using alternating timed pulses at the apex of the pyramid and in the Subterranean Chamber—a feature, by the way, that all the Egyptian pyramids have—we may be able set into motion 5,273,834 tons of stone! If we have trouble getting the Great Pyramid going, there are three small pyramids nearby that we can start first to get things moving. Once the vibration of the pyramid is coupled to the vibration of the Earth, the transfer of energy from the Earth to the pyramid could be sustained until the process is reversed. Once the pyramid is coupled to the Earth, we would have to design a system that would do something with the energy. I propose that the Egyptians had in fact created such a system, using crystals and other natural elements. The secrets of ancient technology may be beginning to emerge in a fantastic and extraordinary way. Let me explain how.
Chapter Nine
THE MIGHTY CRYSTAL
Knowing that we can design an object to respond sympathetically with the Earth's vi
bration, how do we utilize that energy? How can we turn it into usable electricity? We must, first of all, understand what a transducer is. Earlier on we discussed the piezoelectric effect vibration has on quartz crystal (refer to Figure in chapter eight). Alternately compressing and releasing the quartz produces electricity. Microphones and other modern electronic devices work on this principle. Speak into a microphone and the sound of your voice (mechanical vibration) is converted into electrical impulses. The reverse happens with a speaker, where electrical impulses are converted into mechanical vibrations. As I mentioned, it also has been speculated that quartz-bearing rock creates the phenomenon known as ball lightning. It can do so because the quartz crystal serves as a transducer—it transforms one form of energy into another. When we understand the source of the energy and have the means to tap into it, all we need to do to convert the unlimited mechanical stresses therein into usable electricity is to utilize quartz crystals! As you might guess, the Great Pyramid contains quartz crystals, its own transducers.
Let me make no apology for the theory I am proposing. The Great Pyramid was a geomechanical power plant that responded sympathetically with the Earth's vibrations and converted that energy into electricity. They used the electricity to power their civilization, which included machine tools with which they shaped hard, igneous rock.
OK, you may say. Prove it! Just how does this power plant work? Well, let us start with the power crystals, or transducers. It so happens that the transducers for this power plant are an integral part of its construction and were designed to resonate in harmony with the pyramid itself and also with the Earth. The King's Chamber, in which a procession of visitors have noted unusual energetic effects and in which Tom Danley detected infrasonic vibrations (which I postulated were coming from the Earth) is, in itself, a mighty transducer.