The Pyramid Inch

I learned this crazy thing yesterday about why America uses customary measurements such as the Inch, rather than the metric system. As you are aware the French invented the metric system on units of 10, because that actually makes sense.  Yet no one really knows why the British had inches, pounds, miles etc., which we later inherited.  In short, it is because of the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

It turns out that Thomas Newton was deeply into Biblical Numerology and that he concluded the 'Sacred Cubit,' give by God to the Hebrews to build Noah's Arc, the Arc of the Covenant, Solomon' s Temple etc, to have been almost exactly 25 inches.  Then in 1864 this Scottish mathematician name Charles Piazzi Smyth concluded that the Great Pyramid was constructed in proportions of 1/25, known as the 'Pyramid Inch.  Thus if the British inch was used to measure the pyramid, all sorts of amazing information could be derived.  He wrote a huge book that shows the pyramid to be   the center of the earths land mass, or perfectly triangulated between Port Said and Alexandria on Egypt's coastline, and reflects the distance to the sun etc,... but only when measured by the inch. For example as the length of a year is 365.25636 days, which is approximately the length of one side of the pyramid in inches. Thus it was assumed that the Egyptians knew the length of the year very accurately, even though they used a 365 day calendar, which was off by one day every four years. 
The drawing below even uses these measurements to determine the years of the 'The Great Flood, Gods Covenant with Abraham, The birth and death of Jesus, and later, the end of the world.  Of course the calculations for the end of the world, such as 1884 and 1997, just haven't really worked out.

It gets better as Smyth had mathematically proven that 'the lost tribes of Israel," traveled all the way to England then settled and later became the Welsh, Scottish etc.  The only remaining proof being the settlement is of course the British inch. 







What happened later was that when America was faced with using the metric system around 1900, various Conservative parties, such as the Ohio Auxillary Club, used Smyth's book on the floor of Congress to show that the inch was derived from God - by way of the Egyptian Pyramids! Therefore America should not use the "French Metric System,' especially as it was considered 'Communistic, Socialistic, and Inter-nationalistic!"
As a consequence, by the determination of 1 winning vote, the United States did not adopt the metric system.

Now realize that the value of the British inch is calculated as 1/500,000,000 of the Earth's polar diameter and the Pyramid Inch now appears to have no significant scientific support. At least the British later converted to the Metric System...

But this whole story clearly illustrates the manner of the relationship between the world and Egypt.  It illustrates that Egypt is always interpreted in a manner fitting to the popular ideologies of viewer.   If you think about what Egypt might mean to you, as one who is from elsewhere and only familiar with Egypt via popular expression, then Egypt may perhaps only read as 'Ancient History,' or it might be absorbed into the European colonialist legacy.  Within todays widespread misconstructions of 'terrorism' and Islam, Egypt may be seen as a place of danger, or a foreign entity that is impenetrable to the western mind.  Others who are more familiar with the political history of the land might see it as Secular Democracy in the Middle East, while Islamic Scholars might conceive it as the heart of Quaranic Scholarship.  Ultimately, the question returns. What is this place?  And for whom?  Clearly Egypt has a major influence on the world, as the little example above reveals that 220 Million Americans function everyday within a system of metrics instituted by the sheer existence of the pyramid, while likewise making purchases with dollar bills featuring a pyramid on the back.  If you live in Memphis Tennessee or Cairo Illinois, you might even find a another layer in which the simple existence of Egypt as shaped the environment in which you live - thus ultimately defining you as an individual. 

Pehaps now you can see why, after a solid week, I continue to struggle with this question.  Quite likely it will return within future blogs.  As for now, I only have one thing to say:
The new showerhead is already broken.