The Giza Power Plant Theory
Christopher Dunn's revolutionary theory proposing that the Great Pyramid was an ancient power generation facility using advanced engineering principles.
CHRISTOPHER DUNN'S RESEARCH
THE MIGHTY CRYSTAL (CHAPTER 9) FROM HIS BOOK THE GIZA POWER PLANT
So knowing that we can design an object to respond sympathetically with the earth's vibration, how do we utilize that energy? How can we turn it into usable electricity?
We must, first of all, understand what a transducer is. Early on we discussed the piezoelectric effect vibration has on quartz crystal. Alternately compressing and releasing the quartz produces electricity. Microphones and other modern electronic devices work on this principle. Speak into a microphone and the sound of your voice (mechanical vibration) is converted into electrical impulses. The reverse happens with a speaker where electrical impulses are converted into mechanical vibrations. It has also been speculated that quartz-bearing rock creates the phenomenon known as ball lightning. The quartz crystal is the transducer. It transforms one form of energy into another. Understanding the source of the energy and having the means to tap into it, all we need to do is convert the unlimited mechanical stresses therein into usable electricity utilizing quartz crystals!
The Great Pyramid was a geomechanical power plant that responded sympathetically with the earth's vibrations and converted that energy into electricity! They used the electricity to power their civilization, which included machine tools with which they shaped hard igneous rock.
Ok, you may say, how does this power plant work?
It's all very well to throw out a broad statement like that which rationalizes your own theory on machining, but we need more facts and proof that what has been stated is more than an interesting and radical theory. It has to have more proof based on truth and fact!
Well let's start with the power crystal, or transducers. It so happens that the transducers for this power plant are an integral part of the construction that is designed to resonate in harmony with the pyramid itself, and also the earth. The King's Chamber, in which a procession of visitors have noted unusual effects, and in which Tom Danley detected the infrasonic vibrations of the earth, is, in itself, a mighty transducer.
In any machine there are devices that function to make the machine work. This machine was no different. Though the inner chambers and passages of the Great Pyramid seem to be devoid of what we would consider to be mechanical or electrical devices, there are devices still housed there that are similar in nature to mechanical devices created today.
These devices could also be considered to be electrical devices in that they have the ability to convert or transduce mechanical energy into electrical energy. You might think of other examples, as the evidence becomes more apparent. The devices, which have resided inside the Great Pyramid since it was built, have not been recognized for what they truly were. Nevertheless, they were an integral part of this machine's function.
The granite out of which this chamber is constructed is an igneous rock containing silicon quartz crystals. This particular granite, which was brought from the Aswan Quarries, contains 55% or more quartz crystal.
Dee Jay Nelson and David H. Coville see special significance in the stone the builders chose in building the King's Chamber.
They write:
"This means that lining the King's Chamber, for instance, are literally hundreds of tons of microscopic quartz particles. The particles are hexagonal, by-pyramidal or rhombohedral in shape. Rhomboid crystals are six-sided prisms with quadrangle sides that present a parallelogram on any of the six facets. This guarantees that embedded within the granite rock is a high percentage of quartz fragments whose surfaces, by the law of natural averages, are parallel on the upper and lower sides. Additionally, any slight plasticity of the granite aggregate would allow a 'piezotension' upon these parallel surfaces and cause an electromotive flow. The great mass of stone above the pyramid chambers presses downward by gravitational force upon the granite walls thereby converting them into perpetual electric generators."
"...The inner chambers of the Great Pyramid have been generating electrical energy since their construction 46 centuries ago. A man within the King's Chamber would thus come within a weak but definite induction field."
While Nelson and Coville have made an interesting observation and speculation regarding the granite inside the pyramid, I am not sure that they are correct in stating that the pressure of thousands of tons of masonry would create an electromotive flow in the granite. The pressure on the quartz would need to be alternatively pressed and released in order for electricity to flow. The pressure they are describing would be static and, while it would undoubtedly squeeze the quartz to some degree, the electron flow would cease after the pressure came to rest. Quartz crystal does not create energy; it just converts one kind of energy into another. Needless to say, this point in itself leads to some interesting observations regarding the characteristics of the granite complex.
Above the King's Chamber are five rows of granite beams, making a total of 43 beams weighing up to 70 tons each. Each layer is separated by a space large enough to crawl into. The red granite beams are cut square and parallel on three sides but were left seemingly untouched on the top surface, which was rough and uneven. Some of them even had holes gouged into the top of them.
In cutting these giant monoliths, the builders evidently found it necessary to treat the beams destined for the uppermost chamber with the same respect as those intended for the ceiling directly above the King's Chamber. Each beam was cut flat and square on three sides, with the topside seemingly untouched. This is interesting, considering that the ones directly above the King's Chamber would be the only ones visible to those entering the pyramid. Even so, the attention these granite-ceiling beams received was nonetheless inferior to the attention commanded by the granite out of which the walls were constructed.
William Flinders Petrie writes:
"The roofing beams are not of 'polished granite,' as they have been described; on the contrary, they have rough-dressed surfaces, very fair and true so far as they go, but without any pretense to polish."
From his observations of the granite inside the King's Chamber, Petrie continues with those of upper chambers:
"All the chambers over the King's Chamber are floored with horizontal beams of granite, rough dressed on the under sides which form the ceilings, but wholly unwrought above."
It is remarkable that the builders would exert the same amount of effort in finishing the 34 beams which would not be seen once the pyramid was built, as they did nine beams forming the ceiling of the King's Chamber which would be seen. Even if these beams were imperative to the strength of the complex, deviations in accuracy would surely be allowed, making the cutting of the blocks less time consuming. Unless, of course, they were either using these upper beams for a specific purpose, and/or were using standardized machinery methods that produced parts with little variation.
Traditional theory has it that the granite beams served to relieve pressure on the chamber and allow this chamber to be built with a flat ceiling. I disagree. The pyramid builders knew about and were already utilizing a design feature that was structurally sound on a lower level inside the pyramid. If we look at the cantilevered arched ceiling of the Queen's Chamber, we can see that it has more masonry piled on top of it than the King's Chamber. The question could be asked, therefore, that if the builders had wanted to put a flat ceiling in this chamber, wouldn't they have only needed to add one layer of beams? For the distance between the walls, a single layer of beams in the Queen's Chamber, like the 43 granite beams above the King's Chamber, would be supporting no more than their own weight.
Figure 40. Redundant Granite (see The Giza Power Plant) This leads me to ask, "Why five layers of these beams?" To include so many monolithic blocks of granite in the structure is redundant. Especially when we consider the amount of incredibly difficult work that must have been invested in quarrying, cutting, transporting them 500 miles from the Aswan quarries, and then raising them to the 175 foot level of the pyramid. There is surely another reason for such an enormous effort and investment of time.
And look at the characteristics of these beams.
Why cut them square and flat on three sides and leave them rough on the top?
If no one is going to look at them, why not make them rough on all sides?
Better still, why not make all sides flat! It would certainly make it easier to assemble them!
The 43 giant beams above the King's Chamber were not included in the structure to relieve the King's Chamber from excessive pressure from above, but were included to fulfill a more advanced purpose. A simple yet refined technology can be discerned in the granite complex at the heart of the Great Pyramid, and with this technology the ancient power plant operated.
The giant granite beams above the King's Chamber could be considered to be 43 individual bridges. Like the Tacoma Narrows bridge, each one is capable of vibrating if a suitable type and amount of energy is introduced. If we were to concentrate on forcing just one of the beams to oscillate, with each of the other beams tuned to that frequency or a harmonic of that frequency, the other beams would be forced to vibrate at the same frequency or a harmonic. If the energy contained within the forcing frequency was great enough, this transfer of energy from one beam to the next could affect the entire series of beams. A situation could exist, therefore, in which one individual beam in the ceiling directly above the King's Chamber could indirectly influence another beam in the uppermost chamber by forcing it to vibrate at the same frequency as the original forcing frequency or one of its harmonic frequencies. The amount of energy absorbed by these beams from the forcing frequency would increase as each beam in the series began to vibrate sympathetically, until a condition exists where the entire complex begins to vibrate. These beams are, in effect, transducers, and if the energy introduced to the system was of a sufficient frequency and energy, the entire complex would respond to the forcing frequency and absorb energy in its response to the forcing frequency. With quartz crystals embedded in each granite beam, the beams themselves could convert this mechanical vibration into electricity. Electricity would be produced as the beams responded mechanically to this forcing frequency.
The granite beams above the King's Chamber may have been designed to respond in just such a way. If the beams were tuned to respond to the resonant frequency of the King's Chamber, they would respond in sympathy to the forcing frequency, which would then be amplified through resonance of the entire complex. The energy produced would be the result of the beams and the King's Chamber responding together, and the amount of energy produced would be increased as each beam responded to the forcing frequency.
Once the energy is generated in the King's Chamber, it must be directed to a means of extraction or transmission.
Within the Great Pyramid, and according to this theory, the “air shafts” that lead from the King's Chamber are in fact wave guides. The King's Chamber contains two air shafts, one on the north wall and one on the south wall. These shafts are 8 inches by 8 inches in size, and lead out of the pyramid. The northern shaft points to Polaris, while the southern shaft points to the belt of Orion. In the power plant theory, the shafts are conduits for the energy produced in the King's Chamber.
Once the energy is introduced to the southern shaft, it would be directed to the outside, where it could be collected or transmitted. The northern shaft, on the other hand, could be used to introduce energy into the King's Chamber. In this way, the system could be started and controlled.
In order to generate energy, the system would need to be activated. The King's Chamber would need to be made to vibrate at a resonant frequency, which could be done by introducing a forcing frequency into the system. This could be accomplished by introducing sound waves into the Grand Gallery or by using the granite plugs in the Ascending Passage as part of a feedback system.
The Grand Gallery is a long, corbelled passageway that leads from the ascending passage to the King's Chamber. It is 47 meters long, 8.6 meters high, and has a unique corbelled design. The walls are lined with slots and grooves that could have held some kind of device or component.
In the power plant theory, the Grand Gallery serves as a resonator, amplifying the sound waves introduced into it.
The slots in the Grand Gallery are evenly spaced and could have held a series of resonators or tuning devices. The sound waves introduced into the Grand Gallery would resonate within the passage, and the resonant frequency would be amplified. The sound waves would then be directed into the King's Chamber, where they would cause the granite beams to vibrate and generate electricity.
In order to control the system, the energy would need to be regulated. The granite plugs in the Ascending Passage could serve as a feedback mechanism, allowing the system to be tuned and controlled. The plugs could be moved or adjusted to change the resonant frequency and control the energy output.
The granite plugs in the Ascending Passage are located just above the junction of the descending and ascending passages. They are massive blocks of granite that block the passage. The plugs are spaced apart, creating a series of chambers between them. These chambers could have been used to control the flow of sound waves into the Grand Gallery.
Figure 54. Granite Plugs (see The Giza Power Plant)
The 3 plugs and their spacing within the passage may have, in fact, provided feedback to signal when the energy was reaching a dangerous level. By directing in or out of phase sound waves up the Ascending Passage, they may have been able to control the energy level of the system. By directing a signal of the correct frequency, they may have also been able to prime the system in this manner also. In other words, the entire system would be forced to vibrate, and once in motion, it would draw energy from the earth with no further input.
Sir William Flinders Petrie examined these blocks and described them in Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh. He remarked that the adjoining faces of the block were not flat but had a wavy finish plus or minus .3 inches. I was unable to confirm this when I was in Egypt, because the blocks, exposed by Al Mamun's tunnel, had slipped since Petrie's day and are now resting against each other. However, it does make for interesting speculation. Were the faces of the blocks cut specifically to modify sound waves? Could the Ascending Passage serve to direct an interference out-of-phase sound wave into the Grand Gallery, thereby controlling the level of energy in the system? There are mysteries still yet to be answered. But, we are not finished yet!
For more information about Christopher Dunn and his amazing work on the Great Pyramid, or to order his book, visit his web site at: www.gizapower.com
He also has many excellent photos and diagrams on his site that will help illustrate his research. You can even listen to an audio broadcast of an interview with him.