Scientific Features of the Great Pyramid Question: What are some of the scientific features of the Great Pyramid?
Answer: The first work of importance on the subject, proving the Great Pyramid has scientific features, was in 1859 by John Taylor of England. Since then the attention of many able men, including Professor C. Piazzi Smyth, Robert Menzies, Col. Howard Vyse, Sir Flinders Petrie, Dr. Joseph A. Seiss, Dr. John A. and Morton Edgar, etc. has been given to the further study of the testimony of this wonderful structure and witness. Many such features have been discovered; a few of the simpler ones are presented here. Pyramid measurements are based on the Hebrew cubit, which is 25.027 British inches in length. One Pyramid cubit equals 25 Pyramid inches. Modern calculations have shown that the Pyramid inch is the one-half billionth part of the earth's polar diameter. The length of each side of the base of the Pyramid is 365.2422 cubits. Our astronomical or tropical year has a mean length of 365.2422454 mean solar days. Also the perimeter of the base of the Pyramid is 36524.22 Pyramid inches, the length of 100 years expressed in days. Determinations of such accuracy were not possible to man before the 20th century. The angle of slope of the sides of the Pyramid is such that they meet at an apex with a height of 232.52 cubits. The perimeter of the base divided by twice this height produces 3.14159+ or pi, i.e., the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. This relationship was supposedly first discovered by the Greeks, 2500 years after the Pyramid was built. The mean distance from the earth to the sun is variously estimated as between 91 and 93 million miles. The vertical distance between the Pyramid's apex and the socket base level is 5813.0101 Pyramid inches. This distance converted to British miles is .091837578 miles. The Pyramid's height is the one-billionth part of the distance to the sun. The procession of the equinoxes is caused by the gyration of the earth's axis--the slow, orderly, progressive change in the position of its axis of rotation. Due to the tilting of this axis the sun appears to cross the earth's equator twice during the earth's revolution around the sun. These two times are called the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, i.e., equal periods of day and night. Since the earth's gyration is opposite to the earth's revolution around the sun, the equinoxes occur every year a little before each complete revolution is made and are therefore said to precede themselves. The period of years in which the complete cycle is accomplished is called the 'precessional cycle of the equinoxes.' The length of the precessional cycle is variously given because the rate of precession is not constant. In popular reference works a period of 25,800 years is given, which approximates its length based on the current rate. However, the figure for the average length of a complete precessional cycle is a mean between its greatest and least possible lengths. These figures are based on computations covering 2,000,000 years, which show the limits of the fluctuation in the precessional rate. John N. Stockwell, MA, in his Memoir of the Secular Variations, published in Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. 18, states: 'The mean value of the precession...in a Julian year, is equal to 50".438239; whence it follows, that the equinoxes perform a complete revolution in the heavens in the average interval of 25,694.8 years.' This figure stated in Julian years of 365.25 days, is equal to 25,695.3 of the true tropical years. Sir Robert Stawell Ball, in his Elements of Astronomy, p. 365, shows that the duration of the precessional cycle is 25,694 to 25,695 years. The Great Pyramid of Gizeh in a number of ways records this cycle as being between 25,694 and 25,695 years. For example, Dr. John and Morton Edgar, well-known pyramidologists, after their many visits to and accurate measurements of the Great Pyramid, pointed out that the sum of the lengths of the two diagonals of the Pyramid's base at the platform level (each being 12,847.1764 Pyramid inches) is 25,694.3528 Pyramid inches, thus indicating that many years; also the same number of inches is found again as the Pyramid's perimeter at the level of the Grand Gallery's floor terminal. The position of the Pyramid marks the centre of the land surface of the whole earth. There is more land surface in both its meridian (31st degree) and its latitude (30th degree) than in any other meridian or latitude of the globe. Its orientation to true astronomical north deviates only 5 minutes of arc to the west. Such positioning many thousands of years ago required a knowledge of the entire world that could not be humanly ascertainable at that time. Some of the other earth-commensurable proportions of the Pyramid which have been worked out include the spheroidal shape of the earth, the proportion of the land and ocean surface of the earth, the average density and cubical bulk of the earth, the obliquity of the ecliptic, the length of the synodic month, etc."
