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Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

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Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

It was a spool of rare earth in otherwise your bulk. So I even, you know, submitted a paper to the conference and then I reached out to manufacturer and said, asked them, you know, what else is in your alloy? Because, you know, when I looked at their spec sheet, it just said nickel and cobalt and maybe something else, you know, nothing about rare earth.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

It was a spool of rare earth in otherwise your bulk. So I even, you know, submitted a paper to the conference and then I reached out to manufacturer and said, asked them, you know, what else is in your alloy? Because, you know, when I looked at their spec sheet, it just said nickel and cobalt and maybe something else, you know, nothing about rare earth.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

It was a spool of rare earth in otherwise your bulk. So I even, you know, submitted a paper to the conference and then I reached out to manufacturer and said, asked them, you know, what else is in your alloy? Because, you know, when I looked at their spec sheet, it just said nickel and cobalt and maybe something else, you know, nothing about rare earth.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

But it had an asterisk that said, and other proprietary additives. So I said, you know, what other proprietary additives? And they say, oh, by the way, we add some rare earth to it. And when I look at the boiling temperatures, sure enough, you know, nickel boils before rare earth.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

But it had an asterisk that said, and other proprietary additives. So I said, you know, what other proprietary additives? And they say, oh, by the way, we add some rare earth to it. And when I look at the boiling temperatures, sure enough, you know, nickel boils before rare earth.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

But it had an asterisk that said, and other proprietary additives. So I said, you know, what other proprietary additives? And they say, oh, by the way, we add some rare earth to it. And when I look at the boiling temperatures, sure enough, you know, nickel boils before rare earth.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So what I had in that pit where the x-rays were heating the metal, nickel was evaporating and the rest of the additives were concentrating. It was like, you know, I mean, a refinery. So when I presented the paper, it was an example of how you can get fooled because everything is a mixture of everything.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So what I had in that pit where the x-rays were heating the metal, nickel was evaporating and the rest of the additives were concentrating. It was like, you know, I mean, a refinery. So when I presented the paper, it was an example of how you can get fooled because everything is a mixture of everything.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So what I had in that pit where the x-rays were heating the metal, nickel was evaporating and the rest of the additives were concentrating. It was like, you know, I mean, a refinery. So when I presented the paper, it was an example of how you can get fooled because everything is a mixture of everything.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So if you take a piece of granite, you'll find, you know, uranium and thorium in it for sure, but you will also, you know, find iron and you might find, you know, titanium and good knows what. So you need a control. And that's, you know, a very well-known thing in science. You need to have a control and do a comparative analysis. So...

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So if you take a piece of granite, you'll find, you know, uranium and thorium in it for sure, but you will also, you know, find iron and you might find, you know, titanium and good knows what. So you need a control. And that's, you know, a very well-known thing in science. You need to have a control and do a comparative analysis. So...

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So if you take a piece of granite, you'll find, you know, uranium and thorium in it for sure, but you will also, you know, find iron and you might find, you know, titanium and good knows what. So you need a control. And that's, you know, a very well-known thing in science. You need to have a control and do a comparative analysis. So...

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

Well, I have two ideas. First of all, I would start by saying I don't believe that pyramids were religious objects or religious structures. I kind of find it funny when historians or archaeologists don't know what something is, they say, well... Ceremonial. Yeah. If it's a building, they say it's a shrine. If it's a tool, they say it's a... religious artifact.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

Well, I have two ideas. First of all, I would start by saying I don't believe that pyramids were religious objects or religious structures. I kind of find it funny when historians or archaeologists don't know what something is, they say, well... Ceremonial. Yeah. If it's a building, they say it's a shrine. If it's a tool, they say it's a... religious artifact.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

Well, I have two ideas. First of all, I would start by saying I don't believe that pyramids were religious objects or religious structures. I kind of find it funny when historians or archaeologists don't know what something is, they say, well... Ceremonial. Yeah. If it's a building, they say it's a shrine. If it's a tool, they say it's a... religious artifact.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So by the same token, you walk into a metal, metallurgical plant, you have no idea what it is, it will look damn impressive, you know, pretty high beams and fire, and you say, well, of course it's a shrine. And all this, you know, tweezers and hammers and something else, you know, those will be, you know, religious tools. So that's I don't know, maybe because scientists tend to be atheists.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So by the same token, you walk into a metal, metallurgical plant, you have no idea what it is, it will look damn impressive, you know, pretty high beams and fire, and you say, well, of course it's a shrine. And all this, you know, tweezers and hammers and something else, you know, those will be, you know, religious tools. So that's I don't know, maybe because scientists tend to be atheists.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So by the same token, you walk into a metal, metallurgical plant, you have no idea what it is, it will look damn impressive, you know, pretty high beams and fire, and you say, well, of course it's a shrine. And all this, you know, tweezers and hammers and something else, you know, those will be, you know, religious tools. So that's I don't know, maybe because scientists tend to be atheists.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

Not that I am an atheist, but, you know, a more rational explanation is closer to me. So I'm thinking of those are, you know, some utilitarian structures and these are all, you know, utilitarian tools that are not like magical artifacts. So it was used for something. And because I'm a scientist, I'm familiar with plasmas and I'm familiar with sound.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

Not that I am an atheist, but, you know, a more rational explanation is closer to me. So I'm thinking of those are, you know, some utilitarian structures and these are all, you know, utilitarian tools that are not like magical artifacts. So it was used for something. And because I'm a scientist, I'm familiar with plasmas and I'm familiar with sound.