Well, I appreciate your thought on the matter. Watching the video reveals certain details that exclude casting as a means of making such holes. For instance, some cores are known to have been drilled out of certain rocks. There are toolmarks, exactly like toolmarks from every process, that leave a record of machining operations.
When I use a circle saw on lumber, it leaves marks on the wood that reveal I used a circle saw to cut the wood. Marks on the outside of the cores, and inside the holes, reveal a cutting tool was used to machine the stone and make the holes. It's just a cutting tool that I have never heard of, and is able to machine stone in a way that is inexplicable given our current technology.
Were it possible to cast granite composed largely of quartz crystals and similarly obdurate stone, such casting could indeed be able to reduce the forces acting on cutting tools. Other than that we have no evidence of casting involved in manufacture of megalithic structures. Despite the lack of evidence that casting, or other means of decreasing viscosity of stone, I do not discount the possibility of it being one aspect of the construction of megaliths.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and we do have significant evidence of stone being far more plastic, particularly in S. American archeology, during machining operations. How such materials as the range of stones used were rendered more pliable is limited by several features of extant evidence. While some vitrification of stone is provable, that vitrification cannot have occurred prior to assembly of structures, as vitrification has occurred in situ and on external faces of the assembled structures.
[Edit: that vitrification instead lends support to theories regarding catastrophic termination of the civilization that produced megalithic structures worldwide. Whether war or ET impactors, or a combination thereof, destroyed these structures has not yet been ascertained. The vitrification of such stone, combined with the extraordinary forces necessary to blast the structures composed of them apart with resulting scattering of the parts demonstrates that few other mechanisms are potentially explanatory of the end of that civilization.]
This indicates that stone was not melted and cast during construction, as it was not vitrified in the process of construction. Limited heating of worked surfaces would have caused expansion of the heated material, and caused it to crack and break away from material that was not heated. Only by heating entire pieces of material uniformly, but short of liquifying it, could such cracking have been prevented, unless extremely precise and non-invasive means, such as variably tuned EMF radiation, was used to mitigate such differentials to prevent destruction of blocks.
I have not fully explored links, and links from those links, from the source you provided, so my understanding will certainly evolve as those sources provide more information. One issue regarding such sources is that the physics are speculative as a rule, and incomplete or erroneous understanding often impacts conclusions reached by such researchers. For example, this demonstrates that principle on the sentinelkennels site you linked:
"...for a given external vessel dimension, the internal volume decreases."
This contradicts demonstrable principles of physics, and reveals potentially erroneous theories and conclusions compromising the research. Additionally, I have seen water hammers/ram pumps in operation in remote homesteads, and certain statements of the author regarding their features are not factual. The statements and conclusions of the author and similar researchers therefore need to be carefully examined and rejected where found to be erroneous, as that author himself does with Kunkel. Given that I do not have expertise in acoustics, for example, this involves considerable research, and the time to conduct it, rendering many such speculative theories too demanding to sort such kernels of truth as may be from matrices of misunderstanding.
Nonetheless, due to my interest in the subject, I plod along.
The incomplete mapping of tunnels under the Giza plateau, the misinformation and blatantly false statements of Egyptologists like Zahi Hawass, and repression of research - and support of research confirming insuperable biases, and the compelling nature of how ram pumps would have facilitated not only movement of megaliths, but powered equipment necessary to machine them, is very interesting and deserving of study. The possibility of cavitation and pizoelectric effects being aspects of the Pyramids' design and construction is intriguing indeed, and may better explain their purpose than provably false doctrines promulgated by Egyptology and archaeology in general.
The author is certainly correct to state that they were not tombs, were not constructed using stone age technology, and were not therefore built by the Pharaonic civilization that arose in Egypt, but predate extant estimates. Given the undeniable existence of hydraulic tunnels, and the simple nature of ram pumps, it is baffling that archaeology has heretofore not pointed out how hydraulics were used to move, at least, the megaliths used in Pyramid construction. Additionally, actual carvings revealing the use of water jets to carve stone in S. America exist. While Z. Sitchin falsely claims they show lasers, and early researchers were ignorant of that technology (because we hadn't discovered it yet), present failure of the field to incorporate that technology into the cultural environment propounded remains confounding.
The extraordinarily dramatic nature of the YD event and it's affects lend some urgency to such research. The Taurid Meteor Swarm is a yearly event, and if that is the source of the impactors that caused the YD, we face that level of existential threat every year. If ET impactors were not the source of the YD catastrophe, political forces may well have been, and the Mahabharata relates exactly this having occurred, making propaganda, censorship, corruption and military adventurism all the more alarming and necessary of limitation.
Well, I appreciate your thought on the matter. Watching the video reveals certain details that exclude casting as a means of making such holes. For instance, some cores are known to have been drilled out of certain rocks. There are toolmarks, exactly like toolmarks from every process, that leave a record of machining operations.
When I use a circle saw on lumber, it leaves marks on the wood that reveal I used a circle saw to cut the wood. Marks on the outside of the cores, and inside the holes, reveal a cutting tool was used to machine the stone and make the holes. It's just a cutting tool that I have never heard of, and is able to machine stone in a way that is inexplicable given our current technology.
Thanks!
Were it possible to cast granite composed largely of quartz crystals and similarly obdurate stone, such casting could indeed be able to reduce the forces acting on cutting tools. Other than that we have no evidence of casting involved in manufacture of megalithic structures. Despite the lack of evidence that casting, or other means of decreasing viscosity of stone, I do not discount the possibility of it being one aspect of the construction of megaliths.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and we do have significant evidence of stone being far more plastic, particularly in S. American archeology, during machining operations. How such materials as the range of stones used were rendered more pliable is limited by several features of extant evidence. While some vitrification of stone is provable, that vitrification cannot have occurred prior to assembly of structures, as vitrification has occurred in situ and on external faces of the assembled structures.
[Edit: that vitrification instead lends support to theories regarding catastrophic termination of the civilization that produced megalithic structures worldwide. Whether war or ET impactors, or a combination thereof, destroyed these structures has not yet been ascertained. The vitrification of such stone, combined with the extraordinary forces necessary to blast the structures composed of them apart with resulting scattering of the parts demonstrates that few other mechanisms are potentially explanatory of the end of that civilization.]
This indicates that stone was not melted and cast during construction, as it was not vitrified in the process of construction. Limited heating of worked surfaces would have caused expansion of the heated material, and caused it to crack and break away from material that was not heated. Only by heating entire pieces of material uniformly, but short of liquifying it, could such cracking have been prevented, unless extremely precise and non-invasive means, such as variably tuned EMF radiation, was used to mitigate such differentials to prevent destruction of blocks.
I have not fully explored links, and links from those links, from the source you provided, so my understanding will certainly evolve as those sources provide more information. One issue regarding such sources is that the physics are speculative as a rule, and incomplete or erroneous understanding often impacts conclusions reached by such researchers. For example, this demonstrates that principle on the sentinelkennels site you linked:
This contradicts demonstrable principles of physics, and reveals potentially erroneous theories and conclusions compromising the research. Additionally, I have seen water hammers/ram pumps in operation in remote homesteads, and certain statements of the author regarding their features are not factual. The statements and conclusions of the author and similar researchers therefore need to be carefully examined and rejected where found to be erroneous, as that author himself does with Kunkel. Given that I do not have expertise in acoustics, for example, this involves considerable research, and the time to conduct it, rendering many such speculative theories too demanding to sort such kernels of truth as may be from matrices of misunderstanding.
Nonetheless, due to my interest in the subject, I plod along.
The incomplete mapping of tunnels under the Giza plateau, the misinformation and blatantly false statements of Egyptologists like Zahi Hawass, and repression of research - and support of research confirming insuperable biases, and the compelling nature of how ram pumps would have facilitated not only movement of megaliths, but powered equipment necessary to machine them, is very interesting and deserving of study. The possibility of cavitation and pizoelectric effects being aspects of the Pyramids' design and construction is intriguing indeed, and may better explain their purpose than provably false doctrines promulgated by Egyptology and archaeology in general.
The author is certainly correct to state that they were not tombs, were not constructed using stone age technology, and were not therefore built by the Pharaonic civilization that arose in Egypt, but predate extant estimates. Given the undeniable existence of hydraulic tunnels, and the simple nature of ram pumps, it is baffling that archaeology has heretofore not pointed out how hydraulics were used to move, at least, the megaliths used in Pyramid construction. Additionally, actual carvings revealing the use of water jets to carve stone in S. America exist. While Z. Sitchin falsely claims they show lasers, and early researchers were ignorant of that technology (because we hadn't discovered it yet), present failure of the field to incorporate that technology into the cultural environment propounded remains confounding.
The extraordinarily dramatic nature of the YD event and it's affects lend some urgency to such research. The Taurid Meteor Swarm is a yearly event, and if that is the source of the impactors that caused the YD, we face that level of existential threat every year. If ET impactors were not the source of the YD catastrophe, political forces may well have been, and the Mahabharata relates exactly this having occurred, making propaganda, censorship, corruption and military adventurism all the more alarming and necessary of limitation.
Thanks again!