Neat Use of Gravity Measurements

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One of my sons is into archeology. Whenever he talks about it, I always find the discussion interesting. We were talking about the pyramids one day and the subject of the various ramp theories came up. He pointed me to an article in Archeology Magazine. Scientists had used a very sensitive new instrument for measuring the gravity field around the pyramid. Here is a graphic of the gravity field.

Figure 1: Gravity Field around the Great Pyramid.

Figure 1: Gravity Field around the Great Pyramid.

After all these thousands of years, it is almost like you see the ramp wrapping around the pyramid in this graphic. Remarkable. Even after all these thousands of years, the ramp's effect on the gravity field of the pyramid is still there.

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