Instead of moving stones that weighed tons they might have only weighed a few hundred pounds, there are places all over Earth that has hundreds of ton rocks that have been moved miles and then lifted up to hundreds of feet with out any understanding of how they could have done it.
2007-02-19 08:34:17 · 12 answers · asked by puddog57 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Aw, the pyramid-floating-on-a-string, like-a-balloon theory. (kidding)
Perhaps the gravity was a tiny bit less back then, but not enough to help out with anything like that. Equally likely, the gravity was a tiny bit more then than now.
Personally I got the hang of piling rocks when I was about 1 year old and have ceased to be impressed by such feats around the age of 2. Piling rocks does not take rocket science, and if it did, where is the rocket?
I am convinced that the pyramids were built with simple machines (refering to physics), especially levers, especially cantilevers (perhaps some screws and other inclined planes sprinkled about). Egypt is loaded with cantilevers, ancient Egypt was loaded with them too.
One can move a "mountain" with just a finger using a cantilever. A cantilever might be like a huge construction rig, but it can also be a little rock (or rocks) the size of a computer mouse placed in the right positions.
Hm, now I wonder if they could have used catapults, pyramid-o-matics, for extra fast pyramid construction needs. (kidding again)
2007-02-19 09:29:33 · answer #1 · answered by Shawn D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moving those massive stones is indeed an incredible feat. However, a lower gravitational pull is out of the question.
The strength of Earth's pull is governed by two things only: the mass of the earth and the distance to it's core. Since the Earth was the same size and mass back then, it's gravitational pull would have been the same.
There have been a lot of theories as to how the egyptians moved those huge stones. All of them are feasible, they just take a lot of labour and time, both of which were plentiful back in those days.
2007-02-19 08:39:22 · answer #2 · answered by Ryan HG 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. The earth's mass would need to go through a tremendious increase in order for gravity to fluctuate that much. Anything that big smashing into Earth in order to account for the mass increase would probably destroy the planet in the process.
2. If gravity were lower back then, we'd have stories of the ancients jumping absurdly high.
2007-02-19 09:25:02 · answer #3 · answered by Roman Soldier 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly, whilst Moses grew to become into born God knew that he grew to become into going to be a pacesetter . In those situations the Israelites have been the slaves of Egypt and those have been the human beings who equipped the pyramids. Moses lead them out of Egypt with God's help. whilst you're a Christian you ought to comprehend that because of the fact it says it interior the Bible.
2016-12-18 06:39:23 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lower gravity would have lost a sizeable amount of the Earth's atmosphere, and possibly lost the Moon as well.
Not feasible.
2007-02-20 08:06:58 · answer #5 · answered by Wolfman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice theory! Maybe the moon was closer, and they lifted the stones at full moon! Just joking, but it's a nice theory..
2007-02-19 08:56:18 · answer #6 · answered by mustafa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gravity does have very slight fluctulations over time, and slight anomalys in certain places like mountains. but its not enough to affect the weight noticably, maybe a few hundredths of a gram
2007-02-19 08:42:09 · answer #7 · answered by 22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not unless the laws of physics have changed recently. The answer is no!
2007-02-19 09:05:17 · answer #8 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If that were the case, the people would have been levitating off the ground.
2007-02-19 08:37:50 · answer #9 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes cause the earth had less mass then it does now.
2007-02-22 09:22:36 · answer #10 · answered by Tony N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋