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of the matter is very small to be noticed on a daily basis. One typical value (J. H. Gittus, Dirac's Large Number Theory and a Theoretical Upper Limit of the Viscosity of Crystalline Materials, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. A348, pp. 95 99, 1976) would imply a growth of the Earth radius with about 2 centimeters per century. This slow process would have influenced the Great Pyramid by enlarging its basis, which might have caused a sort of creep process with the result we witness today. Assume that the Great Pyramid has indeed been constructed as a perfect half octahedron, and describe its deformation as a creep process at constant volume. With this assumption it is possible to determine the initial dimensions of the pyramid. With the current values of height and base side for the Great Pyramid of Giza, these variations amount to a reduction in height of 10.58411 meters, and an enlargement of the base side of 7.884247 meters. In other words, the Great Pyramid was initially some 11 meters taller and some 8 meters narrower. At a rate of expansion of the Earth's radius of 2 centimeters per century, the value of the variation of the base side places its construction some 7.884247/.02 = 394.2124 centuries ago. In other words it is by far much older than the currently accepted age, and has been built at a time when the Earth radius was some 1.5 meters shorter. This effect can hardly make an observable by itself, but can certainly make an observable in the pyramid.

Along the same line of thought, the three pyramids of the Giza Plateau may not have the same age. Indeed, judging by the angle of faces, Menkaure should be just about the same age as Khufu (51.3 degrees) while Khafre is much younger (53.2 degrees). However, applying the very same calculations as before, based on lengths instead of angles, we have indeed an age of 200.3452 centuries for Khafre, while Menkaure gives an age of 223.2073 centuries. This fact places indeed the Great Pyramid as the oldest among these constructions showing nevertheless, either that there may be some errors in estimating the current face angles, or that, in estimating the age we have to give up the idea of constant volume evolution, because there does not seem to be a straight correlation between angle and age. Such a correlation would place Menkaure's angle around 53 degrees, according to its age, not 51.3 degrees as currently reported.

Despite these differences however, which are matters of further considerations, there is a strong reason for taking the Harvey's thesis seriously into deliberation. One of the main points is that there is a need to clarify the meaning of the glyphs on some wider grounds than the social and geographical experience only. For, the written languages evolve and, while they contain messages addressed to man for times when "the human nature got definitively the upper hand", the messages themselves come from times well before the "divine portion began to fade away" and that past is our future!

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