I've read that pyramids (any pyramid shaped objects or building from the Great Pyramids to pyramids made of paper) have some strange power. For example, if you place fresh meat under it, it will not rot but dry out. Similarly, the Egyptian pharaohs' body has also been preserved for long centuries, and it is not only due to embalmment and other practices that the Egyptians used for preserving the bodies. Even water and food stays fresh if placed under a pyramid.
Also, it has been proven that pyramids can heal people and some sensitive people even feel a light breeze when they enter a pyramid. Why is that I wonder?
2007-08-09 06:45:44 · 13 answers · asked by bluepearl 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Other - Alternative
Tests have been made, and that is where they got the idea from, actually.
2007-08-09 07:15:10 · update #1
You seem not to believe it. Check out this site http://rainbowcrystal.com/atext/pyramid.html
and this is not the only site about it
and by the way, I first read the info in a scientific magazine.
2007-08-09 08:29:51 · update #2
It has to do with magnetic pulls and north orientation.
A freind of the family built one in New Mexico and used it for a green house. Her veggies were extremely large, larger than the ones from our regular greenhouse. They had a better taste. But I actually saw this with my own eyes.
So there is something to the pyramids....but, I don't know exactly what.
2007-08-09 09:42:32 · answer #1 · answered by smittybo20 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
They don't have "power". The stone pyramids have architectural stability because the base is much wider than the top. The Egyptians also learned, through trial and error, to slope each layer of stone blocks slightly toward a lower center point in order to reduce the possibility that they might slump and fall outward.
Mummies and other food,etc., did not stay "fresh" (fresh means as if vegetables or fruit, etc., were picked or animals were butchered today; pyramids can not do that. Water will not stay "fresh" in Egypt since it evaporates; no records exist of water ever being found in an Egyptian tomb. They were dried with natron (a local natural salt mixture) and preserved by the very dry desert climate. Tombs have been well sealed from the outside atmosphere (which may have some moisture in it) and thus helped better preserve their organic contents (wood, mummies, etc.).
They are big and obviously very difficult to build, so their builders (the phaerohs) impressed their subjects with their (the phaerohs') power to get them built.
Since the stones are very heavy and the tunnels to the burial chambers were long and built with false branches and then sealed off, the builders reduced the possibility that the burial chambers would be looted. This was a major concern.
Pyramids do not "heal" people. Don't let anyone sucker you into "magical thinking". There are no supernatural "powers" in this - or any other - world.
2007-08-09 07:01:39 · answer #2 · answered by Lyrinda 1 · 7⤊ 1⤋
This is not true. It would be easy to experiment by putting a piece of meat under a pyramid shaped object and see if it rots. What do you think the result will be?
The whole pyramid thing comes from the 70s when some people came up with a way to market pyramid shaped sculptures by promoting them with some science-sounding logic. New age concepts were becoming very popular and a lot of people believed this stuff.
There is no science behind it, or any evidence to back the claims.
Egyptian kings were perserved through a process of removing internal organs, and significantly reducing the amount of exposure they had to bacterias that cause decay.
edit: If this doesnt convince you that the pyramid doesnt keep meat fresh, you might ask yourself this. Why don't supermarkets use pyramids to keep thier produce and meats fresher longer. There would certainly increase sales by offering fresher meats and produce, and take less shrinkage (loss) from meats and produce going bad.
2007-08-09 06:52:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Not many of the pharaohs were actually buried in the center of a pyramid. I think that if pyramids really had special power(s) then some company would build a bunch of pyramids and people would be flocking to them to get healed or something like that. I don't know of any such companies or pyramid structures. But I do admit thereis something very special to them.
2007-08-09 15:59:43 · answer #4 · answered by roadcracks 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They don't. You can easily test it for yourself trying that meat thing. It didn't work for the Egyptians - they embalmed their dead. That's what preserved the corpses. The shape of a pyramid has no effect whatsoever on whether or not meat decays unless it's blocking air or something - then you can test it with other shapes and see the same result.
It has NOT been proven that pyramids can heal. I don't know who told you that, but it was a lie. If they want to prove it, this guy will give them a million bucks. http://www.randi.org
2007-08-09 06:59:39 · answer #5 · answered by eri 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Yes, pyramids have many incredible powers. Why in the 1930's one pyramid named Lamont Cranston had the power to "Cloud Mens Minds", and he...no wait, that was the "Shadow". Okay how about this. There was one, who could fly, and was faster than a speeding bullet...no, what about the one in purple...No, that was the Phantom.
Oh, I remember, pyramids are mere geometric shapes that have no inherent powers what so ever.
2007-08-09 08:23:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Oh please, pyramids went out with disco.
You provided a link to a site that sells pyramids. Any time some preposterous claim is made it is almost always done so by someone who stands to profit off it. I wonder who stands to profit off the pyramids being sold on that website. I have a sneaking suspicion it's you.
2007-08-10 04:28:01 · answer #7 · answered by Peter D 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I have played with these, lots.
they work when aligned with north and south.
I made mine out of copper wire
above 12 inch base size they have noticeable effects.
as to why they work, I could not figure out....
but here are some interesting things that may give you ideas.
the effect continues in the pyramid shape for 1/3 the hight of the pyramid,
some days they just do not work.
they make orange juice taste good
they make oreo cookies taste bad
they do messed up things to your head (do not sleep under one)
magnetic fields make it not work (don't put it on your TV and expect it to work)
2007-08-09 17:31:01 · answer #8 · answered by sweety_atspacecase0 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Pyramids are a sturdy shape that efficiently distributes weight loading which is why they where popular in Egypt. They do not possess any "special" powers.
2007-08-09 06:53:24 · answer #9 · answered by Brian K² 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
They don't. It's only rumor that persists, but any testing that has been done (under controlled conditions) hasn't shown any effect at all. Tests with food like you mentioned have been done, no effect. Nor has it been proven that pyramids can heal people. There are no documented cases where medical examination has shown this to be the case.
2007-08-09 06:48:24 · answer #10 · answered by John 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋