Looking at the world in a different way...

The internet is truly becoming a powerful way to converse on ideas of a scientific nature. I just never imagined where it would lead!

This blog is going to deviate from my other blogs and is relevant in the sense of it could be a cool idea for a game.

For some background I am trained as an electrical engineer. It was at a tech school so I spent 36 months straight with no breaks learning everything from electron flow theory to Laplace transforms (don't remember those at all) all relating to electronics and electrical theory and practical applications. So my perspective is not from a naive point of view when it comes to science.

It started when my kids and I started looking at some of the fringe science videos on youtube. Yes, the weird part of youtube. We were interested in some of the information about the pyramids in Egypt. In particular we found some videos that were professionally done that conjectured that the pyramids were used as power plants, and were never intended to bury anyone. This intrigued us as it made some logical sense. Then some of the videos talked about the materials and how they were used to construct what amounts to be an ion collection framework. Another video supposed the vents in the pyramid were used to put chemicals in the structure so it could cause a chemical reaction. Part of this reasoning was the salt caked on the walls inside the pyramid. This was pretty interesting stuff that sounded plausible.

Then it got really interesting. One of the videos said there are no torch smoke marks on the inside of any of the Egyptian structures. This is where I paused and said, "What were they using to light the structures then?" Then they showed the wall drawings that showed the Egyptians holding light bulbs. Huh! How is that even possible? It also showed what looked like coils embedded into the ground to receive energy from the sky. The only person I knew of in history that had done anything like that was Nikola Tesla. I was flabbergasted!

Then it got a LOT more interesting. There is a small gold airplane looking gold toy they found in one of the tombs. Some engineers got the dimensions of the gold airplane and scaled it up to model size. They made two airplanes: one with prop propulsion and the other with jet propulsion. Then they took the planes out and flew them. They are perfectly aerodynamic! How can a gold toy/pin made 5 to 10 thousand years ago be perfectly aerodynamic?!

I am still in a bit of a shock over what we found. As we continued to search we found that there are pyramids being uncovered in Europe, there are huge ones in South America, and there might even be some in China. Then the gravity of the whole thing hit me. Whatever ancient civilization created the pyramids made them to produce power. This power was used to run their equipment, fly their planes, and allowed them to travel the entire globe. This is why all the pharaohs have tested positive for cocaine. They were getting it shipped/flown in. Something happened and that entire civilization collapsed.

This could be a really cool thing to explore in a game settings. Some sort of discover the ancient secrets type adventure. The other cool thing about it is conjuring up what life would be like if this version of history is how it was. We will never know for sure, but adding the idea that the Egyptians had electricity solves some of the questions I had about that period of history, but it also opens a whole host of others. Did they use power tools to build the pyramids? Did they have a working knowledge of advanced physics? Did they use electricity to lift the blocks? Is there a connection to how Ed Leedskalnin built the stone structure in Florida? His response to people when people asked how he did it was: I discovered the secrets of the pyramids. There are just so many possibilities!

At any rate, have fun with your own journeys into fringe science. There is a lot of potential story lines there and great fun to be had by all!