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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

Those are the two hypotheses that I found extremely interesting because of my personal interest in nuclear science. That's why I borrowed, you know, a couple of your vases and I stuck them in my germanium detector and maybe we can see a picture of it. Yeah, so that's a massive ton and a half lead shield. that I used to screen the object from background radiation.

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

Those are the two hypotheses that I found extremely interesting because of my personal interest in nuclear science. That's why I borrowed, you know, a couple of your vases and I stuck them in my germanium detector and maybe we can see a picture of it. Yeah, so that's a massive ton and a half lead shield. that I used to screen the object from background radiation.

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

And below it, you see a dewar with liquid nitrogen. And on below is a picture of one of matte vases inside that lead shield. And that piece is sitting on top of the germanium detector. So that germanium detector is submerged partly in that liquid nitrogen dewar for cooling. And then I was capturing gamma spectrum from it. You know, we're surrounded by background radiation.

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

And below it, you see a dewar with liquid nitrogen. And on below is a picture of one of matte vases inside that lead shield. And that piece is sitting on top of the germanium detector. So that germanium detector is submerged partly in that liquid nitrogen dewar for cooling. And then I was capturing gamma spectrum from it. You know, we're surrounded by background radiation.

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

And below it, you see a dewar with liquid nitrogen. And on below is a picture of one of matte vases inside that lead shield. And that piece is sitting on top of the germanium detector. So that germanium detector is submerged partly in that liquid nitrogen dewar for cooling. And then I was capturing gamma spectrum from it. You know, we're surrounded by background radiation.

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

Everything on this planet emits gammas or x-rays at some, you know, minuscule level, but there is a signature of it anyway. And you can tell one rock from another rock by looking at its gamma spectrum. And if we scroll down, we'll see, so those are the two phases that I mentioned. And I got a couple samples of rocks, and those are the spectra that I captured. So I wanted to see if... Of the vases?

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

Everything on this planet emits gammas or x-rays at some, you know, minuscule level, but there is a signature of it anyway. And you can tell one rock from another rock by looking at its gamma spectrum. And if we scroll down, we'll see, so those are the two phases that I mentioned. And I got a couple samples of rocks, and those are the spectra that I captured. So I wanted to see if... Of the vases?

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

Everything on this planet emits gammas or x-rays at some, you know, minuscule level, but there is a signature of it anyway. And you can tell one rock from another rock by looking at its gamma spectrum. And if we scroll down, we'll see, so those are the two phases that I mentioned. And I got a couple samples of rocks, and those are the spectra that I captured. So I wanted to see if... Of the vases?

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

Of the vases, right. If I just registered the emission, the invisible rays that these vases emit, would it look remarkable? Would there be anything unusual about it? And this is a spectrum, and it has peaks. And peaks are definite energies that mean something, you know, to geologists or to nuclear scientists.

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

Of the vases, right. If I just registered the emission, the invisible rays that these vases emit, would it look remarkable? Would there be anything unusual about it? And this is a spectrum, and it has peaks. And peaks are definite energies that mean something, you know, to geologists or to nuclear scientists.

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

Of the vases, right. If I just registered the emission, the invisible rays that these vases emit, would it look remarkable? Would there be anything unusual about it? And this is a spectrum, and it has peaks. And peaks are definite energies that mean something, you know, to geologists or to nuclear scientists.

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

But when I, let's say, captured a spectrum of one of the vases, of the dolerite vase, I didn't know what it should look like. So what I did, I bought a dolerite rock off eBay, mineral collector's item. And I took a spectrum of that rock also, and I superimposed one on top of another. And I see they're consistent.

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

But when I, let's say, captured a spectrum of one of the vases, of the dolerite vase, I didn't know what it should look like. So what I did, I bought a dolerite rock off eBay, mineral collector's item. And I took a spectrum of that rock also, and I superimposed one on top of another. And I see they're consistent.

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

But when I, let's say, captured a spectrum of one of the vases, of the dolerite vase, I didn't know what it should look like. So what I did, I bought a dolerite rock off eBay, mineral collector's item. And I took a spectrum of that rock also, and I superimposed one on top of another. And I see they're consistent.

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

So there are no new peaks. All peaks are the same. which was a little bit of a bummer.

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

So there are no new peaks. All peaks are the same. which was a little bit of a bummer.

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

So there are no new peaks. All peaks are the same. which was a little bit of a bummer.

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

Yes. The red peaks are from the rock and the blue peaks are from the vase. So you see all peaks match. There's some of a slightly different height, which means the rock had more of some minerals, maybe some uranium and some thorium and some bithymus than the vase, but nonetheless, it's the same composition. And if we scroll down a little bit, there is another chart. Yeah, that's for the other one.

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

Yes. The red peaks are from the rock and the blue peaks are from the vase. So you see all peaks match. There's some of a slightly different height, which means the rock had more of some minerals, maybe some uranium and some thorium and some bithymus than the vase, but nonetheless, it's the same composition. And if we scroll down a little bit, there is another chart. Yeah, that's for the other one.

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

Yes. The red peaks are from the rock and the blue peaks are from the vase. So you see all peaks match. There's some of a slightly different height, which means the rock had more of some minerals, maybe some uranium and some thorium and some bithymus than the vase, but nonetheless, it's the same composition. And if we scroll down a little bit, there is another chart. Yeah, that's for the other one.