The Giza Power Plant (31 page)

FIGURE 68.
Grotto in the Well

The technology utilized in the Giza power plant was unique, and its design features find no parallel in any other structure anywhere in the world. Nevertheless, new technology does not just spring into existence. It is logical to assume that, before being encased in a mountain of stone, critical technological "devices," such as the King's Chamber granite complex, Grand Gallery resonators, and Antechamber acoustic filter, were all fully developed and successfully tested to the point where building the Great Pyramid became feasible. If we were to look for evidence that the ancient Egyptians undertook such development and testing, we need look no further than one hundred yards to the east of the Great Pyramid, where the Trial Passages are located (refer to Figure 4).

These passages, discovered by Petrie and discussed earlier in the book, include features found inside the Great Pyramid suggesting that they were planned before the pyramid's construction. However, the ancient Egyptians did not excavate the Trial Passages out of solid bedrock just to demonstrate that they knew the Great Pyramid's interior design or for "practice," as many Egyptologists propose. They had a more practical purpose for their hard work. This purpose—indeed the very existence of the Trial Passages—becomes perfectly logical when considered within the context of the power plant theory. The Trial Passages on the Giza Plateau were most likely dug to accommodate the lower parts of the equipment being developed. As with many industrial and scientific research facilities around the world, the Trial Passages were dug to economize on the superstructure, which, in all probability would have been a research and development laboratory. Similarly today, industries installing large pieces of equipment save money by digging pits and lining them with concrete instead of raising the roof. Normally, the shape of these concrete pits is similar to the shape of the equipment they will accommodate. Therefore, when we look at the Trial Passages we see the same design, measurements, and angles of the Descending Passage, Ascending Passage, and the Grand Gallery. From this information we can extrapolate how the Giza power plant's development and testing took place:

• The Grand Gallery Resonators.
  Instead of testing all twenty-seven resonators in an expensive building, they may have been developed and tested in groups of two or three in the Trial Grand Gallery. This testing
  may have been accomplished by simulating the vibrations from the Earth and directing sound up the Trial Ascending Passage.
  
• The King's Chamber Granite Complex.
  The development and testing of the complex, including the Antechamber acoustic filter, may have been accomplished elsewhere and, for testing purposes, may not have needed to rely on the work being performed in the Trial Passages. Sound could have been simulated and focused through the acoustic filter to accomplish this. There are marks on the granite beams above the King's Chamber that establish their unique positions when being installed in the Great Pyramid. This is evidence that it was very important that each piece be installed in exactly the same position as when it was developed and tested.
  
• The Queen's Chamber Reaction Chamber.
  There are no Trial Passages that correspond to this feature. There is a slight indication of a Horizontal Passage, but this was probably cut to test the slab that bridges the Grand Gallery and the Ascending Passage. Considering the function of the Queen's Chamber, the fact that this chamber was not included in the Trial Passages is perfectly logical. It would be a waste of time to dig a long tunnel with a chamber at the end of it to fulfill a purpose that could be handled easily in an above-ground laboratory. They could have generated hydrogen without digging the Horizontal Passage and the Queen's Chamber, so why bother digging them?
  

Considering the investment the ancient Egyptians made in building such a structure, and its intended purpose as a power plant, it would be nearly unthinkable for them not to have fully tested the machinery that would be put to use. The remarkable similarity in the dimensions of both the passages in the Great Pyramid and the Trial Passages supports my speculation that every piece of equipment critical to the operation of the power plant was first fully developed and tested prior to its installation. The power plant theory currently is the only one that provides a logical pattern of events to explain the purpose for the Trial Passages.

With our knowledge of the progress of modern science, we can easily visualize the events that transpired after the builders successfully tested their equipment in their trial laboratory. Construction, if not already begun,
would have been started on the largest pyramid ever built, and the equipment to be used inside would have been stored until it was convenient to install it permanently. Perhaps some improvements could have been made in the meantime, with respect to the efficiency of the equipment in terms of operation and longevity, for, once installed, it would have to operate without adjustment, maintenance, or any other human intervention. Thus, every dimension would had to have been cross-checked first and approved by the chief designer before the quarries were given the final go ahead to cut the stone that would house this equipment of the Giza power plant. Once the pyramid itself had been completed and the equipment installed, the workers would have packed their tools and headed home while the contracting company gave the key that operated this state-of-the-art system to its new owners.

Chapter Thirteen

SUMMARY

I
f my power plant theory was based on evidence from a singular
ex
hibit or a few artifacts, critics and skeptics could rightly attribute that evidence to pure coincidence. However, I have amassed a plethora of facts and deductions based on sober consideration of the design of the Great Pyramid and nearly every artifact found within it that, when taken together, all support my premise that the Great Pyramid was a power plant and the King's Chamber its power center. Facilitated by the element that fuels our sun (hydrogen) and uniting the energy of the universe with that of the Earth, the ancient Egyptians converted vibrational energy into microwave energy. For the power plant to function, the designers and operators had to induce vibration in the Great Pyramid that was in tune with the harmonic resonant vibrations of the Earth. Once the pyramid was vibrating in tune with the Earth's pulse it became a coupled oscillator and could sustain the transfer of energy from the Earth with little or no feedback. The three smaller pyramids on the east side of the Great Pyramid may have been used to assist the Great Pyramid in achieving resonance, much like today we use smaller gasoline engines to start large diesel engines. So let us now turn the key on this amazing power plant to see how it operated (see Figure 69).

The Queen's Chamber, located in the center of the pyramid, and directly below the King's Chamber, contains peculiarities entirely different than those observed in the King's Chamber. The Queen's Chamber's characteristics indicate that its specific purpose was to produce fuel, which is of paramount importance for any power plant. Although it would be difficult to pinpoint exactly what process took place inside the Queen's Chamber, it appears a chemical reaction repeatedly took place there. The residual substance the process left behind (the salts on the chamber wall) and what can
be deduced from artifacts (grapnel hook and cedarlike wood) and structural details (Gantenbrink's "door" for example) are too prominent to be ignored. They all indicate that the energy created in the King's Chamber was the result of the efficient operation of the hydrogen-generating Queen's Chamber.

F
IGURE
69.
The Giza Power Plant

The equipment that provided the priming pulses was most likely housed in the Subterranean Pit. Before or at the time the "key was turned" to start the priming pulses, a supply of chemicals was pumped into the Northern and Southern Shafts of the Queen's Chamber, filling them until contact was made between the grapnel hook and the electrodes that were sticking out of the "door." Seeping through the "lefts" in the Queen's Chamber, these chemicals combined to produce hydrogen gas, which filled the interior passageways and chambers of the pyramid. The waste from the spent chemicals flowed along the Horizontal Passage and down the Well Shaft.

Induced by priming pulses of vibration—tuned to the resonant frequency
of the entire structure-the vibration of the pyramid gradually increased in amplitude and oscillated in harmony with the vibrations of the Earth. Harmonically coupled with the Earth, vibrational energy then flowed in abundance from the Earth through the pyramid and influenced a series of tuned Helmholtz-type resonators housed in the Grand Gallery, where the vibration was converted into airborne sound. By virtue of the acoustical design of the Grand Gallery, the sound was focused through the passage leading to the King's Chamber. Only frequencies in harmony with the resonant frequency of the King's Chamber were allowed to pass through an acoustic filter that was housed in the Antechamber.

The King's Chamber was the heart of the Giza power plant, an impressive power center comprised of thousands of tons of granite containing fifty-five percent silicon-quartz crystal. The chamber was designed to minimize any damping of vibration, and its dimensions created a resonant cavity that was in harmony with the incoming acoustical energy. As the granite vibrated in sympathy with the sound, it stressed the quartz in the rock and stimulated electrons to flow by what is known as the piezoelectric effect. The energy that filled the King's Chamber at that point became a combination of acoustical energy and electromagnetic energy. Both forms of energy covered a broad spectrum of harmonic frequencies, from the fundamental infrasonic frequencies of the Earth to the ultrasonic and higher electromagnetic microwave frequencies.

The hydrogen freely absorbed this energy, for the designers of the Giza power plant had made sure that the frequencies at which the King's Chamber resonated were harmonics of the frequency at which hydrogen resonates. As a result, the hydrogen atom, which consists of one proton and one electron, efficiently absorbed this energy, and its electron was "pumped" to a higher energy state.

The Northern Shaft served as a conduit, or a waveguide, and its original metal lining—which passed with extreme precision through the pyramid from the outside—served to channel a microwave signal into the King's Chamber. The microwave signal that flowed through this waveguide may have been the same signal that we know today is created by the atomic hydrogen that fills the universe and that is constantly bombarding the Earth. This microwave signal probably was reflected off the outside face of the pyramid,
then was focused down the Northern Shaft. Traveling through the King's Chamber and passing through a crystal box amplifier located in its path, the input signal increased in power as it interacted with the highly energized hydrogen atoms inside the resonating box amplifier and chamber. This interaction forced the electrons back to their natural "ground state." In turn, the hydrogen atoms released a packet of energy of the same type and frequency as the input signal. This "stimulated emission" was entrained with the input signal and followed the same path.

The process built exponentially—occurring trillions of times over. What entered the chamber as a low energy signal became a collimated (parallel) beam of immense power as it was collected in a microwave receiver housed in the south wall of the King's Chamber and was then directed through the metal-lined Southern Shaft to the outside of the pyramid. This tightly collimated beam was the reason for all the science, technology, craftsmanship, and untold hours of work that went into designing, testing, and building the Giza power plant. The ancient Egyptians had a need for this energy: It was most likely used for the same reasons we would use it today—to power machines and appliances. We know from examining Egyptian stone artifacts that ancient craftspeople had to have created them using machinery and tools that needed electricity to run. However, the means by which they distributed the energy produced by the Giza power plant may have been a very different process from any we use today. Because I lack hard evidence to support any speculation about their process, I will not address that issue now, but I will offer several hypotheses in the next chapter.

Before we move into the more speculative part of the book, I would like to join architect James Hagan and other engineers and technologists in extending my utmost respect to the builders of the Great Pyramid. Though some academics may not recognize it, the precision and knowledge that went into its creation are—by modern standards—undeniable and a marvel to behold. In
Secrets of the Great Pyramid,
Peter Tompkins informed us of the opinion of professor F.A.P Barnard, of Columbia College in New York, who energetically attacked the work and ideas of Piazzi Smyth. Barnard criticized the ancient Egyptians for the "stupidly idiotic task of heaping up a pile of massive rock a million-and-one-half cubic yards in
volume."
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We can believe that the pyramid builders were primitive and that they used primitive
methods of manufacturing if we choose to, but practical experience in the skills and technology that must have had a part in the creation of countless numbers of ancient artifacts in Egypt forces many people, myself included, to reject such notions. When we
know
what to look for we
cannot
ignore the evidence of advanced methods of machining! I hope this fact alone will persuade those working in the fields of archaeology and Egyptology to take another look at this material.

The evidence presented in this book, for the most part, was recorded many years ago by men of integrity who worked in the fields of archaeology and Egyptology. That much of this evidence was misunderstood only reveals the pressing need for an interdisciplinary approach to fields that have until recently been closed to nonacademics and others outside the fold of formal archaeology and Egyptology. Much of our ignorance of ancient cultures can be placed at the feet of closed-minded theorists who ignore evidence that does not fit their theories or fall within the province of their expertise. Sometimes it takes a machinist to recognize machined parts or machines! As a result, much of the evidence that supports a purpose for the Great Pyramid as anything other than a tomb has been ignored, discounted without serious consideration, or simply explained away as purely coincidental. Is it coincidence that the Great Pyramid is so huge and so precise? That the King's Chamber contains so many indications that tremendous forces disturbed it or were created within it at one time? Are the exuviae, the chocolate-colored granite, the resonating chambers with their giant granite monoliths placed above, and the unique properties of the quartz crystal present in vast quantities in the granite complex all coincidental? Can the design and physical tests of the movement of sound inside the Grand Gallery be just a happy accident? How about the series of notches along the Grand Gallery? They had to have some purpose.

We technologists can appreciate the pride the pyramid builders must have felt after they had developed their technology and the results stood majestically against the Egyptian skyline. The Great Pyramid inspired awe, which must have been enhanced by its function, enriching the lives of the people who contributed to its construction. If our society had developed a power plant that embodied the features of the Great Pyramid, there would be a renaissance in public thought regarding power-related technology and
how it affects an individual's life. If the technology that can be seen inside the Great Pyramid was replicated for our benefit, there would be less concern about the future of our technological society, for a vast renewable source of energy would be available for as long as we inhabit this planet. Water and/or simple chemicals enter at one point and energy is output from another. No pollution and no waste. What could be simpler?

Well, it may not be quite that simple. The technology that was used inside the Great Pyramid may be quite simple to understand but might be difficult to execute, even for our technologically "advanced" civilization. However, if anyone is inspired to pursue the theory presented in this book, their vision may be enhanced by the knowledge that re-creating this power source would be ecologically pleasing to those who have a concern about the environmental welfare and the future of the human race. Blending science and music, the ancient Egyptians had tuned their power plant to a natural harmonic of the Earth's vibration (predominantly a function of the tidal energy induced by the gravitational effect that the moon has on the Earth). Resonating to the life force of Mother Earth, the Great Pyramid of Giza quickened and focused her pulse, and transduced it into clean, plentiful energy.

Besides obvious benefits from such a power source, we also should consider the benefits that could be gained by utilizing such a machine in geologically unstable areas of the planet. As we discussed earlier, over time there is an enormous amount of this energy built up in the Earth. Eventually the weak spots in the mantle can give way to these stresses, releasing tremendously destructive forces. If we could build a device to draw mechanical energy from seismically active regions of the planet in a controlled fashion—instead of it accumulating to the destructive level of earthquakes—we might be able to save thousands of lives and billions of dollars. We would have a device that would help stabilize the planet. So rather than being periodically shaky real estate, California might eventually become the United States' energy mecca, with a Great Pyramid drawing off the energy that is building up within the San Andreas Fault. A fanciful idea? Perhaps not.