NOVA's This Old Pyramid tested the levering system. The NOVA crew levered a block into place in its mini-pyramid under the supervision of pyramid theorist Martin Isler. Workers pried the block up one end at a time, inserting wooden planks under it. They performed this process repeatedly, until the block was slowly and tediously elevated a few inches at a time to the desired height. Workers placed each wooden plank under the edges of the block with great difficulty and trepidation. As the block rose, the wooden stack under it became unstable and difficult to manage, despite the even, planed surfaces of the planks. Once the block reached the desired elevation, the workers moved it carefully sideways onto the pyramid without disturbing the wooden stack. Otherwise, the block would have crashed to the ground. The workers had problems keeping the stacked planks stable, but they did manage to move the block safely.
It took six hours to raise the block onto the tiny NOVA pyramid tier. The operation is too slow and hazardous to be practical on the scale of the Great Pyramid. Based on Hodges's own trials with his special prying levers, he estimated that it would require about two days to maneuver the average block into place in the Great Pyramid.
Engineer Edward A. Murphy devised Murphy's Law, which says, "if something can go wrong, it will." With any levering system, some blocks would have gone crashing down, killing scores of workers. Just one block tumbling from a course high in the pyramid would cause terrible damage to the masonry below. Workers would have to raise new blocks to replace badly broken ones. Replacing blocks is extra difficult because of the problems of fitting them into existing tiers. Hodges understood that fitting pyramid blocks is at least as demanding as raising them.
We see that the levering system is too slow to meet the rapid construction rate estimated by Egyptology for building the Great Pyramid: one block set in place every three minutes per work day throughout the 24-year reign of its builder Pharaoh Khufu.
Given that both the levering system and the huge construction ramp (and any device dependent upon the use of a ramp) are not viable, Egyptology is left without a viable explanation for how over two million massive blocks were placed to build the Great Pyramid within the 24-year reign of Pharaoh Khufu.
Indeed, Japanese engineers from Waseda university, who built a scale model of the Great Pyramid, estimated that it would have required over a thousand years to build the Great Pyramid. On the other hand, as shown in The Egyptian Pyramid Mystery Is Solved!, history cannot accommodate even a one hundred year construction period. Something is fundamentally wrong with the orthodox theory of pyramid construction.
Please consider the next excerpt - Egyptology cannot explain how the pyramid blocks were shaped.
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