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Nephthys). Then the sun continues its journey on the mirror image of morning as the
afternoon sun, passing again through the junction of Horus and Newet, and then finally
passing beyond the Tower of the West back into the House of the Sun and the underworld
of Thoth.
The Great Pyramid, the Pendulum, and the Senet Oracle Board
House of Lovers
Mirror Reflection
of Senet Board
(to fix circular path)
Great Pyramid
House of Maat
House of Thoth
House of Tem the Tower
House of Ra
Senet Oracle Board
Compare the above drawing to the drawing with the colored lines in which we identified
the sweet spot. The Senet Oracle Board encodes in its dimensions the sweet spot for a
pendulum, but converts it into a pendulum clock. If we really used a Senet Box to make
a longcase clock, then the arm would be 8 and the push distance would be about 1, giving
a tan A = .12 and an angle A of a bit under 7 degrees or even .1 with an angle of about 5
degrees. A clock maker is not interested in lift. He only wants to keep the pendulum
swinging very slightly back and forth. So for him the smaller the angle the better. But
the ratio of 3/10 gives us the sweet spot in the House of Horus for a pendulum able to
swing freely and get the best lift per push. Viewed in this way the Senet Board becomes
a gnomon, a pendulum clock, and a measuring stick.
The Origin of the Meter and the Second as Units of Measurement
During the latter half of the 17th century scientific progress began to accelerate in
Europe. As a result there began to be interest in developing a more efficient system of
mensuration. One of the proposals was to replace the cumbersome traditional spatial
units (e.g. 1760 yards in a mile, 3 feet in a yard, 12 inches in a foot, and so on) with a
consistent base-ten metric system so that calculations would be much easier. In 1668 the
English architect (geometer, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer) Christopher Wren
and the brilliant polymath John Wilkins -- two of the cofounders of the British Royal
Society -- proposed that a new unit of length called the meter could be based upon the
length of a pendulum with a half-period of one second. This was known as the "seconds
pendulum".