How were the pyramids in Egypt built?

Pulled up one step at a time? Wouldn’t ramps be easier?

The Egyptians used a 365 day calender which is exactly like ours three years out of four. They also had twelve months just as we do though there month were only thirty day and each had three 10 days weeks. The extra five days were at the end of the year.

The Egyptians understood Newtonian mechanics but in a different way. they understood gravity (tefnut) and inertia (shu). The understanding was primitive but accurate. They didn’t knoiw what caused gravity or how it related to other forces but they could observe that it existed. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know a rock hurled at your head might hurt you. These are all concepts a caveman could understand. And they did.

dude - ramps were like totally debunked in 152.

If animals lack language why can elephants and whales be heard from 50 miles away. How do crows know which individual human to taunt? Why does every species of bird fly from a predator simulataneously? Nature, life, is communication. Without the ability to communicate even reproduction would be impossiuble for some species. People who speak modern language can’t see this and can’t see the nature of language.

Here’s a mnetaphysical animal language;

I only type so much because I’m trying to say a single thing and don’t want to be misunderstood. It is impossdible in modern language to not be misunderstood. All I can do is try to say exactly what I mean.

Oh, God no!!!

There probably couldn’t be a less efficient and indirect way to lift stones than to build a ramp. Maybe if they dragged them around the continent first.

It’s not just the excessive work of building ramps and then taking them down (twice to do the cladding) but it’s setting yourself up for the most thankless and back breaking work imaginable. Your feet drop away behind you on a ramp even if it isn’t slippery and if it is then your troubles are only starting. You aren’t merely dragging a stone up but your own weight and every deadbeat who had too much beer the night before. If you need anything while breaking your back there are no supplies at hand. If you fall out there is no first aid at hand. If you somehow make it successfully to the top which is unlikely since someone in front of you probably will fall out then you have to dodge your way around traffic to get back down.

I can hardly imagine where this idea of ramps came from. They certainly would work on the little low structures where they’ve been found but they are insanity for a real pyramid.

None of these problems exist for workers pulling stones up the side and friction is essentially “0”. Stones can be whisked up quickly and if a man tires he can sit down and have a cool drink of water. :wink:

So, their calendar is clearly “exactly like ours” which has 365.4 days, twelve months of 28, 30 or 31 days, seven-day weeks, and one extra day every four years. Right.

You’re moving the goalposts. You specifically claimed that

Unless you can produce a text in Old - or even Middle - Egyptian, that says that two bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square root of the distance between them, your statement is wrong. Wriggle all you want to - you asked to be shown specifically where you are wrong and I have done so.

This isn’t at all how gravity works. It is what gravity does.

They understood what it did though their math for this is still unknown.

1817a. To say: Shu, thou envelopest all things within thine arms.

Some of their estimates of things were far off, I believe. I believe they thought light traveled at only about 4 million miles an hour for instance.

Only the broadest deductions can be made from a mere book of ritual. Thisa would be like people in the future trying to understand us by reading Dr Seuss or an antique catalog. Much of this is deduction.

Communication is not language. Language is a system that consists of a finite number of signs that can be combined, according to a body of rules, to create an infinite number of sentences.

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Syntax is a mechanism that enables human beings to utter or understand an infinite number of sentences constructed from a finite number of building blocks. Without syntax, we would not be able to express other meanings than those associated with isolated signs, and the number of different meanings we would be able to express would be equal to the number of signs in the “language”.
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Some animals have impressively complex systems of communication, but until crows or whales or prairie dogs can produce unique sentences that are understood by other crows or whales or prairie dogs, despite never having heard that sentence before, they cannot be said to have a language.

Still wriggling. The point remains, modern science has a better understanding of how gravity works than the pyramid builders did. Your “cite” of your interpretation a language you admit you cannot read is not evidence. Even if I thought that you had interpreted the word “shu” correctly - and according to you, it means ‘inertia’, not ‘gravity’ - that still betrays no knowledge of how gravity works.

Cladking, I think I’ve made it clear that you’re kind of deludded. I don’t trust your interpretations of the language or pictures. I don’t think I’m an outlyer in that. Regardless, I can’t imagine suggesting to give this up. It clearly means too much. I would be happy if you moved, as suggested, into the more physical proofs you need. Make models. Study the geology that a geyser requires.

You’ve fallen so in love playing Ancient Egyptian wordd games, you think it trumps testing physically. They were building a real object - show us that your idea is real world possible.

You call that a board? I looked and they don’t have a Pit to throw people in, nor a Pyramid to throw people off of.

hey, don’t get all ramped up about it.

What’s the alternative - to blow my top like a geyser?

hey, whatever floats your boat, man.

Could you translate that in a metaphysical cultural context that’s not Egyptologist-centric? Maybe draw me a picture?

I’m afraid that you wouldn’t understand - I know so much that others never understand what I am saying when I draw pictures.

do you have a crayon?

Weren’t crayons debunked in post #152?
Crayola, the color god, doesn’t appear until 1903.

This doesn’t explain anything. Why can’t the workers on the ramp just sit down and have a drink of water? And what if the guy pulling multi-ton stones up the side just sits down for his water and his stone crashes to the ground, killing everyone below? That’s not a problem for you?

That article is vague but seems to be saying that prairie dog language is a collection of nouns. Did you see anything this the article that would meet Slow Moving Vehicle’s criteria?