When the first European explorers asked how the huge stone on Easter Island were moved, they were told that they walked there; I, for one, believe this is the case. There are stories of large stones being made to "float" above the ground. I ran across a website where a man was casting large stones for his life-sized "Stonehenge;" true to tradition, after casting them on one side of his property, moved and erected them, on the other size of the property. (Not a real big piece of ground.) by himself without any modern pulleys or levers of any kind. Underneath each block, on either side of the balance point he inserted a knob and then a second knob. (I'm not sure what he used, but a trailer hitch knob would help us visualize.) He could effortlessly tilt the enormous blocks in any direction. He would swing the block around so that one knob was in front of the other, then he would pivot on the knob in front until the other knob swung around to the front and so-on. He raised the upright stones by walking them out over a pit until he could rotating one end up above the pit while the other end rotated down into the pit; again, this could be done by one person with amazingly little effort. Finally, he could raise the lintels onto to the posts by tilting and inserting blocks alternately under each knob, with stack of blocks at the two ends to make certain that the stone never tipped too far. I think these stones, which Fran mentioned, would be better pivot points than ball bearings. Maybe the only difference between the two kinds is some got used, which smoothed them down to a smaller size. Scott
ate: Thu, 12 May 2011 17:09:08 -0400 From: francis.x.roa...@lmco.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:WOT stonehenge ball bearings to move bluestones Hi, Just saw a PBS documentary of students from Exeter moving weights at Stonehenge to test radical theory - Experts hit on the new idea after examining mysterious stone balls found near Stonehenge-like monuments in Aberdeenshire, Scotland About the size of a cricket ball, they are precisely fashioned to be within a millimetre of the same size. This suggests they were meant to be used together in some way rather than individually. There were two types of balls found where one was almost a perfect sphere which they concentrated on in this theory and the second type appeared similar but with about a dozen large bumps spaced evenly over the surface which they ignored totally.In the video they made a pair of lumber tracks with a cut out hollow so the balls could roll and placed the balls evenly with a platform then laid across the balls and their test weights stacked on the platform. They were able to move about 4 ton with just a handful of students but the soft wood was being crushed by the stones and had to be reinforced with harder wood. My question is regarding the “other “ stones mentioned but then ignored in the video – I find it hard to believe the similar scale was just a coincidence and I would like to know if Neolithic man could have used animal fat and these “other” balls to create a hip l ike joint or multiple hip like joints with a “nest” of these “other” balls imbedded into logs or otherwise contained such that the smooth balls would seat partially into the nest and be able to spin on the animal fat caught between the bottom half of the smooth ball and the round bumps of the “other” type balls in which the smooth ball is seated - like a hip joint but with fewer points of contact. Fran
