Friday, November 23, 2012

Chinese sapphire axes - The Stones Speak Again

     Again, there's no reason for me to editorialize.  The article speaks for itself.  While I couldn't find any images of the actual artifacts involved, I included some of similar objects, just to help you get an idea of what is being talked about.
     The evidence is mounting!



Ancient Chinese Technology: Chinese Used Diamonds to Polish Sapphire-Rich Stone in 2500 BC


     CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Researchers have uncovered strong evidence that the ancient Chinese used diamonds to grind and polish ceremonial stone burial axes as long as 6,000 years ago - and incredibly, did so with a level of skill difficult to achieve even with modern polishing techniques. The finding, reported in the February issue of the journal Archaeometry, places this earliest known use of diamond worldwide thousands of years earlier than the gem is known to have been used elsewhere.
      The work also represents the only known prehistoric use of sapphire: The stone worked into polished axes by China's Liangzhu and Sanxingcun cultures around 4000 to 2500 BC has as its most abundant element the mineral corundum, known as ruby in its red form and sapphire in all other colors. Most other known prehistoric artifacts were fashioned from rocks and minerals no harder than quartz.

     "The physics of polishing is poorly understood; it's really more an art than a science," says author Peter J. Lu, a graduate student in physics at Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. "Still, it's absolutely remarkable that with the best polishing technologies available today, we couldn't achieve a surface as flat and smooth as was produced 5,000 years ago."


     Lu's work may eventually yield new insights into the origins of ancient China's trademark Neolithic artifacts, vast quantities of finely polished jade objects.
      Lu began the research in 1999, as a Princeton University undergraduate. He studied four ceremonial axes, ranging in size from 13 to 22 centimeters, found at the tombs of wealthy individuals. Three of these axes, dating to the Sanxingcun culture of 4000 to 3800 BC and the later Liangzhu culture, came from the Nanjing Museum in China; the fourth, discovered at a Liangzhu culture site at Zhejiang Yuhang Wujiabu in 1993, dates roughly to 2500 BC.


     "What's most amazing about these mottled brown and grey stones is that they have been polished to a mirror-like luster," Lu says. "It had been assumed that quartz was used to grind the stones, but it struck me as unlikely that such a fine finish could be the product of polishing with quartz sand."


      Lu's subsequent X-ray diffraction, electron microprobe analysis, and scanning electron microscopy of the four axes' compositions gave more evidence that quartz could not have polished the stones: Fully 40 percent corundum, the second-hardest material on earth, the only material that could plausibly have been used to finish them so finely was diamond.


     To further test whether diamond might have been used to polish the axes, Lu subjected samples of the fourth axe, 4,500 years old and from the Liangzhu culture, to modern machine polishing with diamond, alumina, and a quartz-based silica abrasive. Using an atomic force microscope to examine the polished surfaces on a nanometer scale, he determined that the axe's original, exceptionally smooth surface most closely resembled -– although was still superior to -– modern polishing with diamond.
      The use of diamond by Liangzhu craftsmen is geologically plausible, as diamond sources exist within 150 miles of where the burial axes studied by Lu were found. These ancient workers might have sorted diamonds from gravel using an age-old technique where wet diamond-bearing gravels are run over a greased surface such as a fatty animal hide; only the diamonds adhere to the grease.
   
     The next known use of diamond occurred around 500 BC; it was used after 250 BC in ancient India to drill beads. The earliest authors to reference what is likely diamond, Manilius and Pliny the Elder, lived in Rome during the first century AD.




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WARNING!!


This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.

It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.


Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern.

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

The truth is there. You just have to see it.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.





Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Ancient High Tech - The Williams Enigmalith





      Some things don't need embellishing or interpreting.  I would look more askance at this if it didn't fit in so well with so many of the other finds that we have enumerated on this blog.  I'm just copying and pasting the text and photos as is and giving you the websites, so you can look at them yourselves.

http://s8int.com/page15.html

The WILLIAMS PETRADOX" or "The WILLIAMS ENIGMALITH"
    The circumstances of my discovery: I found my Rock in a rural area, at least 25 feet from the nearest trail (which was dirt and faint), not near any urban areas, industrial complexes, electrical or electronic establishments, nuclear facilities, airports, or military operations (that I was aware of).
The immediate ground was undisturbed. I was hiking in shorts. One of my instruments indicated on the other side of a pair of dense bushes.
     I rashly thought that the best way of reaching that area was to pass between the bushes.
     However, when I tried, the bushes began to painfully poke and scratch my legs. To get through, I vigorously shuffled my feet and stumbled out onto the other side. Once on the other side, I looked down at my ankles to inspect the damage, and then noticed my Rock a few inches from my heel.
The only thing visible of the component was the tip of its three pins. I immediately recognized the pattern as being similar to that used in electrical connectors, and picked it up.
It was definitely a Rock that I had just kicked up because it had a layer of moist loose dirt and some pliable root strands sticking out of it - evidence that it had been completely buried between or very near the bushes.
     I don't know how deep it was buried or the type of soil - perhaps as much as a couple of inches - or exactly where it had laid.
     The bushes were fairly large, and of a species that I believe lives for many decades. Once I cleared away the loose dirt and roots, I found that my Rock was encased in a hard layer of dried mud or clay.
     I later spent hours scraping, brushing, probing and washing away the mud/clay to get a clear view of my Rock and its component.
     For fear of ridicule and Government and skeptics harassment and possible persecution of my family and I to rip-off or destroy my Rock and discredit me, and also to give me the time to try to find some man-made explanation for it, I quietly and secretly held on to it for several years.
     Only last year, after I had exhausted my efforts to find a modern man-made duplicate of my Rock or its component, did I decide to get it professionally and objectively evaluated, and took the risks of exposing it to the public for that purpose. 
OBSERVED PROPERTIES & DIMENSIONS
     My Rock appears as in the photo images above. My Rock's material is solid natural quartz and feldspar granite (very little observed mica; I am not a Geologist) - not an accretion, concretion or pumice - does not contain any resins, cements, glues, limestone, mortar, or other non-granite binding agents - is very hard, is estimated to be at least 100,000 years old, and has embedded in it an electrical-like component (I assume to be a connector of some sort).
     Within an error of about 0.2 mm for all dimensions, my Rock is 61 mm long, 38 mm wide (at its widest), and 22 mm high (excluding the pins/rods/prongs).
     It's embedded component's rods/pins/prongs ("pins") are made of some kind of electrically conductive material (I assume to be metal) and are of steel-like appearance. The component base/matrix ("base") is a whitish ceramic or rock-like material, and is definitely not a plastic, rubber, wood, or metal type material (relatively rare for most types of modern man-made electrical components, ceramic-based components are normally limited to high temperature, high radiation, high voltage, high power, and-or ultra-longterm uses).
     The component itself is 8 mm diameter; its pins are 3 mm high, spacing between the pins is 2.5 mm, and pin thickness is 1 mm. Rounding at the ends of the pins indicate some long-term wear, so 3 mm may not be their original lengths.
All pins appear to be about the same size (wide-angle lens on digital camera distorts relative size of nearer objects to more distant ones).
     While there is no indication that there ever was a fourth pin or any type of keying, the Component's base is raggedly chipped where a fourth pin might have been located if there was one, and scoring on my Stone itself leading up to the chipped area indicates that at some time my Rock and its component received a forceful glancing blow.
     While the chipped side appears to be flat, it is not flat - the chip is deep. Ohmmeter readings (no matter what the connection polarity) indicate either open-circuit or very high impedance between the pins (FET-type or tube-type technology? Broken circuitry inside?).
     I have also injected various electronic signals through the pins without any response or reaction being detected.
Some have speculated that the component is an XLR connector. I have done much research component searching on this, and it is NOT a XLR connector - or any other connector I know of.
     X-RAYS: Several people have suggested that I get my Rock x-rayed - say from a dentist or local lab. This is not as easy of a process as some make it out to be. Most would not even listen to me.
     Of the several that did listen, only a few would even consider it, and all of these insisted that I would have to leave my Rock in their possession and come back later to pick it up (yeah, sure!) - something I definitely will not do.
     There is no indication of any cement or glue whatsoever on or near the Component. Using an ammo reloading scale, my Rock weighs close to 2.5 ounces. There is slight magnetic attraction (using a 10-lb pull rare earth magnet), to the Component, and to the bottom of my Rock underneath the Component.
     Using a Spec-Tec Blacklight Unit (Model HD-1, Spectrum Technologies), "L" setting (longwave), there is some fluorescence along the rim of the Component.
Neither my Rock nor its Component appears to glow in the dark, change colors, emit sound, light or radio wave, or feel unusually warm or cold, or have anything that rattles around inside of it (radiological properties are untested and unknown at this time).
     Some have speculated that my Rock is a thermal "rock" used with small animals, but extensive searching has not produced a single commercially made heat Rock that would verify this speculation, and no such match has ever been reported to me; and if it were a heat Rock, pin-to-pin resistances would be relatively low - not at or near open-circuit.
     My Rock is NOT a heat rock.
John Williams Petrodox Site


WARNING!!



This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.



It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern.

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.


The truth is there. You just have to see it.

 

 

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.





When people meet dinosaurs!





     There are certain instances where a picture is worth millions of words.  Such is the case with dinosaurs and the timeline fabricated by the materialists.  They emphatically state as fact that the creatures we call dinosaurs completely died out millions and bazillions and gadillions of years ago, long before any  human beings existed.

     Really?

      So what's with all the carvings, ceramics, bronzes and cave drawings that were made in earlier times (by men) that seem like they couldn't possibly represent anything else?  Bless their hearts, they hadn't received the benefit of an evolutionary education, so they didn't know they weren't supposed to be seeing these creatures.


      This is a native African wooden carving.  This creature obviously isn't a turtle or an armadillo.

  Resembles this nodosaur, though, does it not?



     The stone on the left shows a dinosaur with an elephant-like creature.
See any similarities to the rock carving?  Or to the one below?


     Sauropod (four legs on the ground, long neck, long tail, small head, like what used to be called a brontosaurus) again.  This one is attributed to the vanished Anasazi people of the American Southwest.
     Stegosaurus-like creature carved on one of the pillars at Ankor Wat, an ancient lost city in Thailand.

 Look similar?




     We've discussed the Babylonian sirrush in detail in a previous blog.  The consistent way that it is portrayed in Babylonian art and the details (it even shows the musculature and joint bones in the legs) argues for a real life model that existed at the time this artist did his work.


      This is an aboriginal rock drawing from Australia. The aborigines would draw the internal organs of a creature to let you understand that they had killed and dissected this animal.  Plesiosaur for dinner, anyone?




    This carving is from Sumatra.  The two legged creatures are either gigantic roosters or perhaps a creature called a Corythosaur., depicted below.

What do you think?
Similarities to this representation of a Quezalcoatlus? 


 
     The Chinese have a long tradition of including various reptilian creatures in their artwork.  It is interesting, however, that this Shang dynasty jade carving is remarkably similar in many ways to the Tsintaosaurus (seen below), which was known to exist in the area of China.
 




Drawing on a cave wall of a dinosaur and elephant head butting?


A cave drawing from the American Southwest compared to a drawing of a very common dinosaur called a hadrosaur.

More cave drawings





      Even more cave drawings.  What is he spitting out of his mouth?  Is it sneezing?  Did dinosaurs chew tobacco or is he breathing fire?



     When dynastic Egypt of the Pharaohs was founded, about 3,100 B.C., the Egyptians made many make-up palettes on which they would carve various designs.  Several of these show creatures that could only be dinosaurs, with short bodies and legs, and long necks and tails.  Poor, stupid, uneducated Egyptians!  They hadn't been told yet that the creatures they were seeing hadn't existed for gazillions of years.


This is an enlargement of the carving in the photo above.

Another make-up palette of a similar period.


Yet another, with a detail of the creature carved on the top of the palette is seen below.
Detail from above


     While it looks like a boomerang, the long curved object is a wand that various magic rituals would be performed with.  Note the enlarged detail above it and the long-necked creature therein.

      Another example.  Note that all the other creatures represented are creatures that we know currently exist, like antelope and aardvarks.







Different palette, same notes.

     The Greek inscription next to the strange creature depicted on this ancient mural, illustrating life on the Nile is "Krokodilonardalis."  The word translates as "Crocodile leopard."

     Another mural from the classical (ancient Greek and Roman) period.


      This is an ancient Greek vase.  Notice the large creature in the center, surrounded by other known sea creatures that currently exist?  Is the large creature not similar to the mosasaur depicted below?




     The following 9 images show artifacts worked in ceramic and textile that have been found in various places and from various cultures based in the Andean mountains of Peru, South America.  I defy anyone to show how they could be remotely similar to anything except dinosaurs.




















      The above two models and ceramic were found among the ruins of the mysterious Carian culture located in modern Turkey.  Very similar to the stegosaurus, drawn above.





Notice any similarities to the ankylosaur depicted here? 









     This is a Native American prayer stick, currently located in a museum.  Note anything similar in the drawing below?
























      Of course, let's not forget the marks that dinosaurs have made on people!




      This sandstone track is part of a large trackway that still exists and is still visible in Glen Rose, Texas.  The trackway contains the trail of footprints of this dinosaur and another trail of prints that are obviously human. It is clear from the photo that the dinosaur track OVERLAPS the human footprint. 
      People never saw dinosaurs, say the politically correct scientists.  Yeah, right!
      I hope that this person saw THIS dinosaur coming or he surely was run over!


    While we're talking about dinosaurs, here's an interesting couple of tidbits of information that I just recently came across.
     TIDBIT 1

     You remember this big guy, right?  This is a drawing of Tyrannosaurus Rex, one of the most well-known and iconic of all the dinosaurs.  Forty feet in length, seven tons in weight (the weight of seven mid-sized passenger cars), head four feet long and a mouthful of fangs, each the size of bananas.  It is the equivalent of a Great White shark on two legs.  It is terrifying and awesome, even in death.
     To watch the movies and documentaries, you'd swear that these things were as numerous as flies at a picnic, when they were alive.  In point of fact, there are only about twenty skeletons of T. Rex that are close to complete (by complete, I mean 40% or more of it has been recovered).  That doesn't include all the bits and pieces of skeletons that have been found.
     When you see these skeletons mounted in museums, you aren't actually seeing the real bones, but carefully reproduced casts, models made of the real bones.  Rightly so, as the real bones are too rare and valuable to be exposed to the possibility of theft or breakage.
     However, because of that substitution, you may not know that all of the T. Rex bones in museums have been coated with a special paint, that is lead based.  The reason for that is that the bones are dangerously radioactive - all of them!
     Why would that be and why do we never hear of that?  Those of you who have read my first blog entry
(Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future!), know that there is strong physical evidence for the concept that nuclear bombs have been deployed in the ancient past.

     Tidbit 2

     A paleontologist recently sawed one of the T. Rex bones open and found intact cells within it.  The cells are so complete that the scientists are talking about cloning their own T. Rex from it!  Just to be really clear, there is no way that soft tissues, like cells, could have possibly remained intact for anything like 65 million years, which is how old these scientists say T. Rex's remains must be.  Perhaps the radiation in the bones helped to preserve the cells somewhat, but not completely intact and identifiable cells!
     (I find it interesting that there are reports that famous dinosaur expert Jack Horner was shown these specimens and, after looking at them for a second, walked off with the off-hand comment, "You need to find another explanation, because that just can't be possible.")

    Tidbit 3


    
      Back in the 70's, there was a great stir because scientists noticed that, in many locations, there was a very thin, dark or black colored layer above which they could find no dinosaur fossils.  The layer was always rich in iridium, which is a very, very rare material.  Since it is mostly present in meteorites, and the layer was so extensive, the materialistic uniformitarian scientists could come to only one conclusion - that a massive meteor strike had covered the earth in iridium and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
     This is a perfect example of how their theoretical and theological background badly skewed the materialists interpretations of the raw information.  There is one other source that produces iridium in large quantities and the scientists were all well aware of it, but because of the blinders inherit in their view of the world, they couldn't even consider this source.
    The other source that could produce such massive quantities of iridium all over the earth?
     Nuclear explosions.   Large and numerous.  See Tidbit 1.






This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.
It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.
Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.
The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern.
You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.
The truth is there. You just have to see it.
Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)
That which has been is that which will be,
And that which has been done is that which will be done.
So there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there anything of which one might say,
“See this, it is new”?
Already it has existed for ages
Which were before us.