In some Ancient Egyptian wall carvings. There are sort of detailed immages of the Suns rays as waves. This was not supposed to be known about until the 16th century.When experiments in Europe were done to findout what light is and what it's made of.
2006-09-18 18:53:53 · 9 answers · asked by sandwreckoner 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Immage shows the Sun as a round sphere With wavy lines coming out in all directions. Almot exactly the way Thomas Young in England found out about light as consisting of waves. But, he had to do a detailed experiment to figure it out. Yet,the Ancient Egytians made an immage of light waves before that. As for the Mirrage hypothesis. A dessert mirrage doesn't hint of light beams consisting of waves. No one can see individual light rays-waves. The immage was very detailed. It even had a plant in the scene .As if to suggest that the knew about plant dependance on sunlight in more detail.
2006-09-18 19:53:19 · update #1
Perhaps, they observed and understood about wave propagation of fluids (ocean waves) and projected that particular "way of nature" onto the journey of energy from the sun to this planet
2006-09-18 19:11:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
just another part of the big mysteries of ancient Egypt.
the sun ray carving is a drop in the bucket compared to the engineering feats that was accomplished, at the given time period they took place...... boggles the mind to wonder how the hell they did it, let alone how they even knew about what they did.
2006-09-18 19:07:07 · answer #2 · answered by steelmadison 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1st, light behaves as waves and sometimes as particle. The Egyptians just drew it that way arbitrarily. I doubt they "knew" the science. Still, on the subject of science in Europe. The dark ages in Europe did more to retard the progress of science than probably anything in history.
2006-09-18 19:03:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Could it simply be a crude artistic rendering of the mirage effect? You know, the way in extreme heat that makes it appear that the air is undulating.
I imagine it gets wicked hot in Egypt.
2006-09-18 19:00:16 · answer #4 · answered by Koko Nut 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many of our connections to ancient knowledge were severed when the Library of Alexandria burned.
2006-09-18 19:05:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
probably from looking across the desert and seeing the heat waves coming off the sand... like a mirage or something... maybe they thought they were actually seeing light bounce off the sand... or maybe you should bow before the almighty RA and watch more stargate sg 1 DUH!
2006-09-18 19:10:24 · answer #6 · answered by scottishchristiansen 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We will never know. Good question.
2006-09-18 19:01:32 · answer #7 · answered by njl433 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
spiritual intuition? psychedelics?
2006-09-18 23:36:20 · answer #8 · answered by Jake B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Their sun god Ra told them. ☺
2006-09-18 18:58:54 · answer #9 · answered by xinnybuxlrie 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋