Popular Archaeology: The Giza Power Plant, By Christopher Dunn
Popular Archaeology
Book Review
Dunn, Christopher. The Giza Power Plant, Technologies of Ancient Egypt. Inner Traditions/Bear & Company, 1998
Christopher Dunn 's book The Giza Power Plant lures the reader in with the idea that the pyramids were used for a much bigger purpose. This book has all the great makings to be a spectacular magic show. It goes from boring statistical fallacies to how the pyramid of Giza is actually a technically advanced machine. His elaborate explanations can really leave the reader believing in his theory...well almost. Christopher Dunn 's hypothesis, that the Great Pyramid at Giza functioned as a power plant via the principles of resonance and crystal amplification, I found it to be intriguing but highly unlikely. Dunn throughout his book tends to snowstorm the reader with numerical data that they can’t possibly understand. He approaches the design and function of the pyramid from an engineer’s viewpoint and continues his explanations that way throughout the book which in turn leaves the reader confused and lost. Dunn also tries to back his …show more content…
Instead his power plant theory was backed by other engineers or pseudoscience writers. It also has no fruitfulness to it and it makes no successful predictions. The scope is very broad but it fails to give any real and logical explanations let alone proof that the pyramids were indeed power plants. So going back to simplicity Dunn 's theory is defiantly not simple and does not follow Occam 's razor. Dunn goes above and beyond to explain everything about the pyramids including the size, shape and weight of the rock used to build it. He also mentions other civilizations building techniques to attempt to explain his own. Overall though this book was interesting and caught my attention, but I quickly saw the many cracks is argument contained. And Dunn 's power plant theory quickly turned to
Book Review
Dunn, Christopher. The Giza Power Plant, Technologies of Ancient Egypt. Inner Traditions/Bear & Company, 1998
Christopher Dunn 's book The Giza Power Plant lures the reader in with the idea that the pyramids were used for a much bigger purpose. This book has all the great makings to be a spectacular magic show. It goes from boring statistical fallacies to how the pyramid of Giza is actually a technically advanced machine. His elaborate explanations can really leave the reader believing in his theory...well almost. Christopher Dunn 's hypothesis, that the Great Pyramid at Giza functioned as a power plant via the principles of resonance and crystal amplification, I found it to be intriguing but highly unlikely. Dunn throughout his book tends to snowstorm the reader with numerical data that they can’t possibly understand. He approaches the design and function of the pyramid from an engineer’s viewpoint and continues his explanations that way throughout the book which in turn leaves the reader confused and lost. Dunn also tries to back his …show more content…
Instead his power plant theory was backed by other engineers or pseudoscience writers. It also has no fruitfulness to it and it makes no successful predictions. The scope is very broad but it fails to give any real and logical explanations let alone proof that the pyramids were indeed power plants. So going back to simplicity Dunn 's theory is defiantly not simple and does not follow Occam 's razor. Dunn goes above and beyond to explain everything about the pyramids including the size, shape and weight of the rock used to build it. He also mentions other civilizations building techniques to attempt to explain his own. Overall though this book was interesting and caught my attention, but I quickly saw the many cracks is argument contained. And Dunn 's power plant theory quickly turned to