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Star Shaft Targets: Distances, Travel Times, and the Sirius Anomaly
The four shafts in Khufu's pyramid pointed at (c. 2500 BCE): Shaft | Star | Distance | Travel @10%c Queen's South | Sirius | 8.6 ly | 86 years King's South | Al Nitak | 1,200 ly | 12,000 yrs Queen's North | Kochab | 126 ly | 1,260 yrs King's North | Thuban | 300 ly | 3,000 yrs - At 8.6 light years,...
The Precession Paradox: Why Star Shafts Cannot Be Primary Inputs
CRITICAL ANALYSIS: The Precession Problem for Shaft-Based Theories Earth's rotational axis precesses with a period of ~25,772 years, causing stellar positions relative to the horizon to shift continuously. The four star shafts in Khufu's Great Pyramid point at specific stars ONLY around 2500 BCE:...
What the Pyramid Could Hear: The 1420 MHz Sky from Giza
If the Queen's Chamber shafts are receiving antennas tuned to the hydrogen line, what would they detect? The answer is: a LOT. SIRIUS (Southern Queen's Chamber Shaft): - Distance: 8.6 light-years (one of the nearest star systems) - The Sirius system (A + B) is embedded in the local interstellar...
The Star Shafts as Directional Antennas: Aimed at Sources, Not Destinations
The Great Pyramid has four narrow shafts extending from the King's and Queen's Chambers toward the exterior. In ~2500 BCE, they pointed at specific stars: Northern shaft → Thuban (Alpha Draconis) — the pole star in 2500 BCE Southern shaft → Al Nitak (Zeta Orionis) — the lowest star in Orion's Belt...
The Orion Correlation: Three Pyramids as a Star Map
Robert Bauval first proposed the Orion Correlation Theory (OCT) in 1989, fully developed in "The Orion Mystery" (1994, with Adrian Gilbert). The core claim: the three Giza pyramids are positioned to mirror the three stars of Orion's Belt. - The Great Pyramid (Khufu) corresponds to Al Nitak (Zeta...
Geographic Center of Earth's Landmass: The Pyramid at the Crossroads
The Great Pyramid is located at or very near the geographic center of all land surface on Earth. This was first calculated in the 19th century and has been refined with modern computational methods. If you calculate the centroid of all continental landmass (weighting by area), the result falls near...
The Four Star Shafts: Precise Astronomical Alignments c. 2500 BCE
The Great Pyramid contains four narrow shafts (roughly 20x20 cm cross-section) that extend from the King's Chamber and Queen's Chamber outward through the body of the pyramid at precise angles. These are conventionally called "air shafts," though they do not provide ventilation (the Queen's Chamber...
Equinox Light Effects and the 8-Sided Pyramid
During the spring and autumn equinoxes, the Great Pyramid's concave faces create a remarkable shadow effect. For a few seconds at sunrise, the southern face is split into two halves by a line of shadow, revealing the structure's subtle 8-sided geometry. This effect was first photographed by a...
Stellar Shaft Alignments
The Great Pyramid has four narrow shafts (~20 cm × 20 cm) emanating from the King's and Queen's Chambers. At the time of construction (~2500 BCE): the southern shaft of the King's Chamber pointed to Orion's Belt (Al Nitak, associated with Osiris); the northern shaft pointed to Alpha Draconis...
Cardinal Alignment Precision
The Great Pyramid's base sides are aligned to true north, south, east, and west with an accuracy of 3 arc-minutes (3/60th of a degree), or about 0.05°. This surpasses the alignment accuracy of the Greenwich Observatory, built in 1675. To achieve this, the builders needed either sophisticated...
Precessional Cycle Encoding
Earth's axial precession — the slow wobble of the rotation axis that takes approximately 25,920 years for a complete cycle — appears encoded in the Giza complex. The number 25,920 factors into highly significant numbers: 25,920 = 72 × 360 = 2,160 × 12. One degree of precession takes 72 years. The...
Orion Belt Correlation Theory
Robert Bauval's Orion Correlation Theory (1994) proposes that the three Giza pyramids map the three stars of Orion's Belt: Alnitak (Khufu), Alnilam (Khafre), and Mintaka (Menkaure). The relative sizes and positions of the pyramids match the brightness and arrangement of the stars. The slight offset...
