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* Simple experiments are needed to measure the Compton wavelength of the
electron and the proton in order to verify the approximate rest masses of the electron and
proton could be measured by the ancients.
* We know that the Egyptians had standard weights and measures, and much of
their system was based on the Eye of Horus binary fractions, but we do not know how
fine the craftsmen and engineers were able to go in such measurements. One way the
ancients achieved fine resolution in measurements was to use instruments built at a large
scale. For example, a large Senet Board could be used to get extremely accurate
measurements of irrational quantities such as square roots. Large pyramids and obelisks
could be used as instruments for measuring astronomical motions and cycles of time.
We are only part way there. We have found many cosmic numbers enshrined in the
sacred geometry of the Senet Board, and hints at how the ancient Egyptians might have
actually understood the physics related to these numbers. Perhaps knowledge of the
relation between geometry and physics was a surviving tradition from a bygone era of
"Atlantean" civilization that collapsed during some great catastrophe and lost all its
higher technology. Perhaps the Egyptians simply celebrated the beauty of the geometry
on an intuitive level without any awareness of the underlying physical laws.
This paper as it stands is still only a rough draft that requires further research so that we
may answer the above questions and further understand what the Egyptians knew.
Unfortunately so much of their technical lore has been lost that we are faced with the task
of reconstructing from the limited remnants that survive. Most of the perishable artifacts
are long gone and we are left with whatever the archaeologists can recover from the
shifting sands of Egypt.
Douglass A. White
October 25, 2012
Appendix A: Taking Square Roots with Egyptian Arithmetic
The Egyptians in early times already were quite adept at arithmetic, algebra,
trigonometry, and the basics of calculus. Unfortunately only a few documents about
mathematics have survived. Wikipedia ("Egyptian mathematics") lists for us the scanty
scraps of primary documents in Egyptian that have survived.
"The earliest true mathematical documents date to the 12th dynasty (ca 1990–1800 BC).
The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, the Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll, the
Lahun Mathematical Papyri which are a part of the much larger collection of Kahun
Papyri and the Berlin Papyrus all date to this period. The Rhind Mathematical
Papyrus which dates to the Second Intermediate Period (ca 1650 BC) is said to be based
on an older mathematical text from the 12th dynasty."
The Temple of Man (2 vols) by Schwaller de Lubicz, translated into English from
French by Deborah and Robert Lawlor is a good source that discusses in detail Egyptian