Thanks for the link Darek to a fascinating clip. I can't comment on the
veracity of the interpretation, but it's obvious that the guide / narrator
had no knowledge of the equation of time. Also the central axles do not
appear to have a hole for a thin gnomon, so there's a bit of a problem about
which side of the axle's shadow would be used. Every time I see carvings
like those on the temple and the "dial", I marvel at the sort of economy
that could invest so many resources in erecting and decorating (not in a
trivial sense) the buildings. Master craftsmen at work for decades /
centuries. I'm sure that the relevant god was pleased at such devotion.
Some of the videos on the right-hand side of the page are truly inspired
with aliens responsible for many things. The people at Phenomenal Travel
Videos obviously don't know much about science. And reading through the
comments makes me despair at how easily people accept the sort of rubbish
being peddled by PTV. A sad indictment of education systems that people are
so quick to accept aliens and gods rather than natural phenomena as causes.
A lovely example is Krishna's Butter Ball. There is little mystery about it
that can't be explained by resolving vectors and adding in a bit of
friction. The shape is classic granite weathering along orthogonal joints to
produce an almost spherical shape. But as we have quite a few balancing
rocks in Australia, I guess that Krishna visited here as well as the many
other parts of the world where balancing rocks occur on granite. Think of
the frequent flier miles!
How about a simpler explanation for most of this stuff: "we just don't know
how these things were made"! But why admit this when e.g. Von Danniken made
a lot of money peddling the same rubbish. I hasten to add that we have the
same sort of thing in Australia with people claiming that carvings made in
the 1960s (and documented as such) are described as Egyptian hieroglyphics
from 4,000 y ago. And there are ley lines running from the site to the Nazca
lines in Peru. (If anyone wants to waste their time reading this rubbish,
Google "Bambara" and "hieroglyphics". There are hundreds of web sites
devoted to proving the arrival of Egyptians, Phoenicians and aliens in
Australia.)
Cheers, John
John Pickard
john.pick...@bigpond.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Darek Oczki
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 10:38 AM
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: Sundials of India
Hello All
I am very much interested in ancient India. Let's call it Vedic times. Does
anyone here have any knowledge about time measuring of that period? And I do
not mean Jantar Mantar observatories but rather times much much prior to
that. Someone just sent me this Youtube video about a sundial of Konark
temple. I wonder it there is any real science behind what they say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9RF9lLBIMs
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Best regards
Darek Oczki
52N 21E
Warsaw, Poland
GNOMONIKA.pl
Sundials in Poland
http://gnomonika.pl
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