1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:21,200 Okay, so civilisation won. Well, it didn't really start there for me. It started a few years 2 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:27,320 before, in fact, probably as much as 10 years before civilisation won was actually written. 3 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:33,080 And it began for me on the island of Crete where I was taking a holiday approximately 30 years 4 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:41,840 ago. While I was on Crete, I wanted to take a close look at Europe's first super civilisation, 5 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,900 which was known as the Minowans, and they were at the height in Crete around about 6 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:55,720 2000 BC. I've been interested in history, virtually all of my life, as far back as I can remember. 7 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:03,400 And ancient history has always captivated me most of all. So I was anxious while I was in Crete, 8 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:09,040 not just on holiday, to discover as much as I could about these most incredible people. 9 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:15,440 If you get the chance to read anything about the Minowans, you will see what an amazing civilisation 10 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:21,080 they were. And the very first day that I was in Crete, I was walking down the street, looking 11 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:29,600 to the shop windows as you do, and I saw that. That is called the Face Dostisc. You can't get any 12 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:36,240 idea of scale looking at that picture, but if you think in terms of a CD, a DVD disc, it's 13 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:42,360 just a little bit bigger than that. It's made of bake clay, and it was found in the ruins 14 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:47,640 of the Palace of Face Dosts on the south of Crete. It was discovered at the beginning of 15 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:57,360 the 20th century, and it dates back to about 2000 BC. It captivated me. The moment I saw a copy 16 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:02,560 of it in a shop window, it was a big blown up photographic version that I saw. So I could 17 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:14,880 see all those symbols very, very clearly. The Face Dostisc is a tremendous enigma, mainly 18 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:21,880 because we don't know what the symbol is mean, and because now we don't know what language 19 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:28,240 the Minowans spoke. Lots of books have been written about the Face Dostisc, lots of theories, 20 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:35,760 some people think it's a him, some people think it's a ritual of some sort, but what fascinated 21 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:42,760 me most about it was that all the characters on the disc are contained within spirals. 22 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:48,760 Now, I'll go on to the next slide, because this is the disc showing both sides and both sides 23 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:54,880 are different. Some of the same symbols are used on both sides, as if they were symbols 24 00:02:54,880 --> 00:03:02,000 indicating words, but nobody knows. The reason that the spiral within which the symbols 25 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:08,640 are found fascinated me is because I already knew, particularly from long walks around my 26 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:15,720 own home in Yorkshire and upon Ilkley Mall, just how important the spiral was to our 27 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:22,720 own ancient, megalithic ancestors. And I had read and I believed it was possible in the 28 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:31,000 case that to those people, the spiral probably represented the passage of time. It almost 29 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,000 certainly was associated with the movements of the sun. There are double spirals, for 30 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:44,080 example, that have been found at New Grange and other places in the south of England, 31 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:49,760 which seemed to indicate our ancestors' ability to understand the sun's movements along 32 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:57,200 the horizon throughout the year. These people were the first farmers, it was important to 33 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,600 them to be able to track the seasons. And because the spirals were on the Face Dostisc, 34 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:07,040 something that occurred to me as a possibility was that what we might be looking at here 35 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:15,440 was some sort of calendar. Now I have to admit all these years on, that there was a very 36 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:20,880 definite case of intuition going on here because I had no proof at the time for any of this. 37 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:25,920 But the guy who run the hotel, what I happened to be stopping, I talked to him on the first 38 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,480 night, really nice guy called George Kate and I have been back to see him since, 39 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:35,280 what I was able to give him a copy of my first book because the day after, 40 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:44,160 at breakfast time he presented me with that which is my copy of the Face Dostisc and it's been 41 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:51,520 the price possession of mine ever since. So I started to look, ruined the holiday, absolutely ruined 42 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:58,240 the holiday because I started to look at the symbols, couldn't make any sense of the symbols, 43 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:05,200 but the number of symbols and the groupings within which those symbols could be seen, 44 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:12,320 quite quickly started to make sense to me. One of the reasons that it made sense to me was because 45 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:19,840 of my interesting calendars. Now we have a calendar which is based on 365 days 46 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:26,800 and we add a day every four years or so which more or less keeps our calendar correct with the 47 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:34,160 solar calendar. It doesn't actually, we have to do different things in century years and in millennium 48 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:40,880 years, but we don't have the best calendar that there ever has been but we certainly don't have the 49 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:47,280 worst and because we so technological these days, even my new changes can be made, but because there 50 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:54,960 are 365.25, six or four days in a year, nobody can have a calendar based on a number of days, 51 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:01,040 something always has to be done. I was aware that some of the central American civilisations 52 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:07,040 had used more than one calendar simultaneously and they'd managed to compensate their 53 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:13,680 calendars, the solar calendar by using more than one cycle, like Cogs within a gearbox and when 54 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:20,320 they came round to a particular point, they knew that they had to either take off or add a year 55 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:28,320 to the calendar in order to make it come right. And it had also occurred to me that a very convenient 56 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:38,240 calendar might be one that was based not on 365 days, but on 365 days. I reasoned that this was 57 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:43,920 the case because it seemed to me that it would be more easy to regulate and to take days off the 58 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:50,480 calendar rather than to add them on would probably a more sensible solution. I noted on the face 59 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:59,600 dust disc that one side of the disc contained 123 symbols within 31 groups and the other side had 60 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:11,680 119 symbols within 30 groups. That's that. So let's just assume as I did, sitting there in 61 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:18,880 Crete at the bar and going nowhere, that the civic year is 366 days in length. It would then be 62 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:25,280 possible to use the face dust disc to compensate for the year and the way we would do this would be 63 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:34,480 we would count off the number of symbols on the first side of the disc which has 123 symbols 64 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:44,480 and we would count those off four times which would lead us to 492 days. If we were to then 65 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:53,440 remove a day from the ritual calendar, it would bring us so close to the actual soul of calendar 66 00:07:54,400 --> 00:08:00,480 that virtually no other compensation would need to be made for a number of centuries. 67 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:06,160 Therefore, beats our system into a cart tat. The reason that there's a second side to the disc 68 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:14,320 is because the disc runs in cycles of 40 years. 40 was something that I and Chris and I 69 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:21,680 would come across time and time again. It clearly was a ritual to our ancestors. 70 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:29,440 Now we might say, well okay so this was around about 2000 BC, what an earth can this possibly have to 71 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:40,240 do with the megalithic people of Great Britain. And that was something that I came to looking at 72 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:47,600 very closely about the time that I wrote the book, the Bronze Age Computer Disc. That was my first 73 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:56,480 book in this adventure which up until now has lasted for all of my life because everything else 74 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:03,760 that I've done, everything else that I've stood it relies intimately on what I discovered in 75 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:08,800 Crete. So my first book, the Bronze Age Computer Disc, came to the conclusion at the end of the book 76 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:17,040 that there was a relationship between what the manoans were doing and what our own megalithic ancestors 77 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:24,400 were doing. This isn't as extraordinary as it might sound. The manoans or a Bronze Age culture, 78 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:32,560 they relied entirely on what they could make and what they could sell. They were incredible sailors, 79 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:38,880 they traveled all over the Mediterranean and although there's no absolute definitive proof of the 80 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:44,640 fact, they almost certainly also came through the pillars of Hercules and up to the southwest 81 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:50,160 of Britain because the one thing they wanted more than anything else was tin. Tin is one of the 82 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:57,920 components of bronze and they made and exported goods made of bronze to all parts of the known 83 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:06,000 world. Tin is in very short supply elsewhere in Europe apart from in Cornwall. So it seems almost 84 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,560 inevitable that they would have had to come to Cornwall to get that tin and that therefore they would 85 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:17,920 have mixed with the megalithic cultures that were in existence at that time in Bronze Age Britain. 86 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:24,640 So not long after I'd written this book I got in touch with Christopher Knight. He'd been this is 87 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:34,720 Chris by the way. He'd been working with Rob Lomas on a number of books and he'd happened to touch 88 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:42,240 on some facts which I thought would remain to the research that I'd been doing and so we got together. 89 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:51,920 He and Robert did not write together after that particular point in time and we found out that 90 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:59,200 Chris and I had one particular thing that we both held almost a sacred in our minds and it was to 91 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:08,960 do with a guy called Alexander Tom. Alexander Tom was still alive at that time and fortunately 92 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:16,880 such was the length of our research that Alexander died by the time we would have felt confident enough 93 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:22,560 to get in touch with him. So we never met him and a year or two later he's Sonarchy died as well. 94 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:27,520 So one of the great saddances of mine and Chris's life is that we never got to meet this man. 95 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:33,200 So widely we want to meet him. What was it about Alexander Tom that fascinated both Chris and I? 96 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:40,800 Well Alexander Tom was an engineer and he was a professor of engineer and an Oxford University 97 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:49,600 after the Second World War. He was a Scott and he was also a very competent and very keen sailor. 98 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:55,280 He used to sail yachts all around Scotland in and out of the locks around the islands 99 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:02,560 and because he was a man who was interested in almost everything he found himself 100 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:08,720 being particularly fascinated by the proliferation of stone circles, ancient stone circles which could be 101 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:17,200 seen from lock sides off from on the islands and when he was a child he's uncle had given him 102 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:24,320 a telescope so he was also interested in astronomy and he looked very closely at the stars and planets 103 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:30,240 again a bit of knowledge about them and in particularly it was fascinated by the phases and movements 104 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:37,440 of the moon and he wondered when he looked at these ancient stone circles whether what these people 105 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:44,160 had been trying to do was to better understand the tides which of course are heavily influenced by the 106 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:52,160 moon because he reasoned there was no way to get about in those ancient times especially in Scotland 107 00:12:53,600 --> 00:13:00,720 other than by water really so it was locks rivers, coastal navigation must have been the way 108 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,480 they people got about because we know that there were extensive trading links. 109 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:11,760 So because he was an engineer he decided to investigate this situation more closely 110 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:20,080 and in his spare time of which he had quite a lot he would go off with his family and with a few 111 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:28,000 selected friends and he started to carefully survey as many of these magnetic structures as he 112 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:36,400 possibly could. It went on for decades he had by the time he was too well to do it anymore 113 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:42,480 the greatest reservoir of information mathematical about our magnetic ancestors 114 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:52,880 than anyone before our sins. He became known as the father of astroarchology and nobody 115 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:57,920 outed in the end that he was right. He is a assessment that a lot of the stern circles in Scotland 116 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:04,480 especially had been used as a means for tracking the moon which has notoriously difficult 117 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,440 movements because it's so close to the earth because of its angle to the earth. 118 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:15,360 Just as an example, Kate and I were looking at the moon last night. If you look at it 119 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:20,480 if it's out tonight you'll see that it's quite high in the sky whereas at the same time on its last 120 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:26,880 circuit when it was nearly full it's full tonight I think. Earlier tomorrow morning 121 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:34,000 but if you look at it as it was 29.5 days ago it was much lower in the sky and it 122 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:39,440 varies a great deal. They needed to be pretty astute these people to understand how the moon 123 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:45,280 works and therefore how high and low tides were going to be a ten-year given point in time. 124 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:54,400 Now Alexander Tom was much praised for all of this work but he was about to announce something 125 00:14:55,200 --> 00:15:03,120 which would put a slur on his memory which has not been lifted since. He was above all else 126 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:10,160 a stata-stition. He knew that the only way we would know anything about these magnetic people 127 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:18,320 was to do many many different kinds of circles and standing stones and avenues to see where 128 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:24,880 the similarities lie because only average is give you the truth at the end of the day in that 129 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:30,160 kind of mathematics because stones move because the main ought to be an exactly precise when there 130 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:39,280 were placed there. So on and on is research went until something became inevitable. He found that 131 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:50,560 there was a common unit of measurement. It was 82.96 meters in length which in old money is 2.722 132 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:56,960 feet. Now I'm going to ask my Leo Wife Kate who's in the second row if she will stand up 133 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:04,640 and turn round. Now it just so happens that from fingertip to fingertip 134 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:17,200 Kate is exactly 2. Megalithic yards wide. So you get some idea of how big the 135 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:24,480 Megalithic yard is and it was really useful. One of the reasons why a marid are actually 136 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,720 because she's been absolutely indispensable on field trips. 137 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:43,920 So we have the Megalithic yard and Tom said there's not a one percentage chance of this being a 138 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:51,760 fluke. It does exist and the roles statistical survey backed him on that but they said no it's 139 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:59,040 much more than that. It's about 99.9% that this is absolutely correct and that it couldn't 140 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:06,960 occur about by chance. Unfortunately archaeologists wouldn't agree with him. They're logic told 141 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:12,800 them that this must be nonsense and for one very important reason. The thing about a uniform 142 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:19,680 measurement, a particular measurement is you have to pass it on from one place to another, 143 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:26,880 from one generation to another and that's not going to be easy in the Bronze Age. There's virtually 144 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:33,680 nothing you could use which wouldn't change or bend or book a lot twist. It would allow the 145 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:41,680 measurements to stay as accurate as they clearly did across 2,000 years. By the end of the 146 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:48,720 Megalithic yard being used it was almost well it was exactly the same as it was right at the star 147 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:54,480 and so people said no no no no it's some kind of artefact something that's dropping out of the mathematics. 148 00:17:55,360 --> 00:18:01,520 Now Chris and I looked at all the information that was available and we thought this was 149 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:12,480 really, really unfair and Chris and I also held to a particular axiom. It might seem a very 150 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:19,120 unfair axiom but I still hold to it and that is don't necessarily believe what they tell you. 151 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:28,240 In the end it's very difficult to say who they are but it's really important, I thought and still think 152 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:34,320 that if it's humanly possible for you to do so you should try and find things out for yourself. 153 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:39,920 I was no mathematician I was an engineer and you were tiny bit about maths but I didn't know very much 154 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:45,680 but Chris and I decided together that what we would do would be to set out to find out whether the 155 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:52,480 Megalithic yard did exist and if it did exist how it could have been passed on from one place to another 156 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:59,840 there's one of the monuments that Alexander Tom measured that's Brodger in Scotland 157 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:07,200 right so what is there? What is there that you can use to define a measurement to make sure it never 158 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:14,480 changes and to make sure that you can resurrect it wherever you happen to be at any particular point in time 159 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:23,120 long and involved in detailed series of thoughts and discussions and experiments followed 160 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:28,880 and in the end there was only one candidate so let's cut to the chase it's a pendulum 161 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:39,840 so the thing about a pendulum is when you swing it the rate of swing is always related to the length of the 162 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:49,040 pendulum if you lengthen the string the swing will be different if you shorten the string the swing will be different 163 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:57,520 and vice versa a pendulum is a beautiful way of measuring the things but you have to have a reference point 164 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:07,120 you have to measure it against something so here we are with our Megalithic yard now we think that this is what 165 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:14,400 Megalithic ancestors used in conjunction with a pendulum in order to establish the 166 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:21,840 Megalithic yard and it worked as follows if you take a brief wooden frame like the one that you can see above 167 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:33,360 and if you make sure that that frame is measures one 3606th part of the horizon from where you 168 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:43,280 happen to be standing then you have one Megalithic degree of the horizon now I must explain here 169 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:50,000 we had come to the conclusion that just as surely as the number 366 had been used in the number of days 170 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:58,720 in the year for the Minowans that it was also the basis of their geometry and the geometry of the 171 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:05,920 Megalithic people this seems absolutely bizarre to us because we've grown up knowing that all circles 172 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:13,600 must contain 360 degrees but the more you think about it the more you realise no that's more 173 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:23,760 less totally arbitrary we'll consider 360 presently but 3606 is just as useful it may not be quite so 174 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:32,000 divisible by other numbers as 360 degrees but we'll see why in many ways it's even better so 175 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:39,440 we split our horizon into 3606 units there is a very quick and simple way to do this but I won't 176 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:43,920 explain that now because the last thing I want to do is swamp you with so many figures that you can't 177 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:53,680 remember any of them but suffice to say if I wanted a one 3606 of this circle to the back 178 00:21:53,680 --> 00:22:00,800 of the auditorium I could get that measurement in a minute and a half so once you've got your 179 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:06,320 measurement you make your brace wooden frame like the one at the top you then stand it on a stand 180 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:12,320 as you see in the picture underneath you do this in the west and you do it at a certain time of year 181 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:20,160 because what you want is to see the planet Venus passing through that gap as it falls towards the 182 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:29,280 horizon it's only going to work perfectly on a certain part of the orbit of Venus how they came 183 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:39,360 to understand this is a complete mystery but it works flawlessly and if you watch that gap 184 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,720 while swinging a pendulum and you're at the middle of the circle and you're looking at 185 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:55,120 Venus passing through the gap then if that pendulum swings 3606 times while Venus is in that slot 186 00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:02,320 the pendulum string will be exactly one half of a magnetic yard in length therefore the 187 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:09,680 card of that double lap will be the magnetic yard now the amazing thing about this is of course is you 188 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:17,520 don't need to pass it on it's it's there you can take your pendulum with you wherever you want to go 189 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:27,440 there are tiny tiny differences in the length of the pendulum in the area where Tom measured 190 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:34,640 the magnetic yard is most normally ones were in the northern Scottish aisles particularly in 191 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:41,680 arcney these most subtly examples were down in Brittany and there was a tiny variation in the length 192 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:48,880 of the magnetic yard and because he takes so many measurements this showed up that variation is exactly 193 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:54,640 what one would expect if one derived this measurement from a pendulum and that's because 194 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:02,000 because of the nature of the earth because of the shape of the earth the closer you get to the 195 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:10,720 equator the more gravity will be coming down upon you that means that the swing of the pendulum is 196 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:20,160 a tiny fraction different in Brittany than it is in the north of Scotland and that will make for 197 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,920 maybe a millimeter or two's difference in the size of the magnetic yard but to all intensive 198 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:35,840 purposes it's the same thing you can make your magnetic yard wherever you want so we felt immediately 199 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:43,120 that we had vindicated Alexander Tom we knew that Venus as a planet has always been of 200 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:50,800 incredible interest to our species you can look anywhere you like or any almost any civilisation 201 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:58,480 you like and you'll find that Venus has a really important part to play in their symbolism in their 202 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:06,480 myths and even in their religion we tried every possible star and planet that we possibly could 203 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:12,640 only Venus can do this and we think that's one of the reasons why Venus became so revered 204 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:18,400 we still have no more understanding than we ever had of how they managed to come by that information 205 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:26,160 but they clearly did it works and so it proves that Alexander Tom was correct so 206 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:33,520 are all the archaeologists who specialize in magnetic things now jumping on the band of 207 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:43,600 I'm saying this is absolutely amazing no nobody says a word the last thing that those kind of 208 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:52,640 scientists want is some bomb mechanic coming along telling them this kind of thing but 209 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:57,600 anybody can try it for themselves and we tried it literally hundreds and hundreds of times and it 210 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:05,120 works it wasn't long before the connections between the menoein system and the 211 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:12,800 magnetic system started to show themselves again it took a long a lot of thinking about but 212 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:22,240 using the calculator there was obviously a tangible connection and this was because a guy called 213 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:29,280 J Walter Graham who was a Canadian archaeologist had very carefully measured all the known 214 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:35,840 palaces from the menoein civilization in Crete and like Alexander Tom he'd come to a conclusion 215 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:41,840 that the menoeins had used a particular system of measurement it wasn't the megalithic yard 216 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:53,520 he called it the menoein foot and it was 30.36 cm so that is the base unit of the menoein system 217 00:26:53,680 --> 00:27:01,360 and they seem to have used that in all their buildings but we suddenly found out that 366 218 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:15,280 megalithic yard is 3365 cm and a thousand menoein feet is 3360 cm now Graham had far fewer examples 219 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:22,560 than Alexander Tom had and said in his work that he thought that the menoein foot might be 220 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,800 very slightly different than he'd said because he didn't have that many samples to go on 221 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:34,800 the error is one part in 6000 so what the menoein seem to have used was if you like a sexy decimal 222 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:41,120 version of the 366 megalithic yard system but clearly they were still using 223 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:52,160 megalithic geometry these two comparisons working together allowed us to reconstruct 224 00:27:52,880 --> 00:28:00,000 what megalithic geometry must have been like now we have in our kind of geometry if you're 225 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:07,760 think back to your school days a circle which is split into 360 degrees each of those degrees 226 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:15,680 is split into 60 minutes of arc and each of those minutes is split into 60 seconds of arc 227 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:21,600 megalithic geometry was just very slightly different oh I've stood on something 228 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:32,720 no picture I'm sorry Hugh but I've got no picture okay lovely okay sorry about that folks 229 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:39,760 right so this is what we think well this is now what we know 230 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:49,840 megalithic geometry looked like there was 366 degrees to a full circle the same as the number of days 231 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:58,000 in the year each of those degrees was theoretically split into 60 minutes of arc 232 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:05,600 and the only difference between this and modern geometry in terms of the minutes and seconds 233 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:13,600 is that in megalithic geometry there was only six seconds of arc to the minute of arc 234 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:20,960 I hope this doesn't get too complicated because it really is the entire beauty of the system 235 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:33,440 and this is why well it would be if I could you know I've ruined the machinery 236 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:43,600 okay so in the meantime I'll carry on and tell you when we are looking at the earth 237 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:55,200 it obviously is a globe we could split that like segmenting an orange and we could split it into 238 00:29:55,200 --> 00:30:02,800 its component geometric paths so we could take a segment of the orange that was equivalent to 239 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:09,760 one megalithic degree of the earth we could split that into megalithic minutes of arc so smaller 240 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:18,480 segments and we could split it again into seconds of arc if we were to do that we would find out 241 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:28,880 that one megalithic second of arc is equivalent to 366 megalithic yards 242 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:37,840 this is utterly breathtaking I think we have someone back who can help us here 243 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:45,680 okay so that's how the earth is split in megalithic geometry 244 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:57,440 the proof of it can be shown thus the parallel earth in terms of megalithic yards is 482 245 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:04,480 to 416 so megalithic yards that is equivalent to 40,9 kilometers 246 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:10,080 the actual size of the polar earth in so far as anybody has an absolute estimation 247 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:18,960 is 4,000 40,7 kilometers the difference between the two is one part in 20,000 248 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:26,000 in other words it's the same thing what does this mean it means that the whole 249 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:35,840 megalithic measure in system from the single megalithic yard up is geodetic it is based absolutely 250 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:42,960 on the polar circumference of the earth and I would suspect that this is the reason why no archaeologist 251 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:50,240 will touch this with a barge pole because it's just too incredible for words are we saying 252 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:57,200 that our ancient ancestors probably five six thousand years ago knew with the exact 253 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:03,600 size of the polar earth well yes because the whole system is based upon that and in the 254 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:13,360 end it goes much further than that right if we make a cube which is four megalithic inches in all 255 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:22,160 its dimensions now let me explain our Alexander Tom looked at lots and lots of little sculptures 256 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:28,960 that our ancient ancestors had made on the stones they assembled things like spirals 257 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:34,800 and he measured those very carefully as against the megalithic yard and he came to the conclusion 258 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,840 that there were two other megalithic measures one he said was the megalithic inch and he said 259 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:45,920 there were 40 of those two megalithic yard the other one he came across time and time again 260 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:52,000 was a measurement that was two and a half times the megalithic yard which he called the megalithic 261 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:59,360 rod they were therefore one hundred megalithic inches in a megalithic rod and 40 to the megalithic yard 262 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:06,240 so we did a bit of experimentation Chris and I and we discovered that if you make a box 263 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:15,440 a cube which has sides of four megalithic inches if you fill it with any kind of cereal grain 264 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:23,200 I've got a barley in this one but it works with wheat it works with rice as long as it's not 265 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:33,600 hold it works with almost any seed grain you will find that the weight of that equals one pound 266 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:41,360 now let's be clear about this it isn't one pound two within one or two degrees it's one pound 267 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:48,720 how an earth this could possibly have survived for that period of time I still find it's 268 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:55,120 a little incredible but we tried it time and time again and it's absolutely true and if that isn't 269 00:33:55,200 --> 00:34:06,240 fantastic enough if we get rid of the grain and we fill that same cube with water then that water 270 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:14,560 will be exactly one pint in volume again not to within one or two percent but absolutely and that 271 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:22,160 comes back to the earth because it turns out that whoever designed this system didn't only know 272 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:29,760 the size of the earth they knew the mass of the earth if we oh there's a bit box by way if anybody 273 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:36,720 wants to have a look at a megalithic cube that's it if we now have a look at our segments of the earth again 274 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:47,040 we find this one megalithic second of our segment of the earth would have a mass of 100 quintillion 275 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:56,240 pounds to within an accuracy of 99.8 percent and those kind of symbolic numbers go on right up the 276 00:34:56,240 --> 00:35:06,400 line to the full mass of the earth and 99.8 percent well I call that pretty accurate mainly because 277 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:14,160 nobody can give a totally accurate reading of what the mass of the earth is we can get pretty close 278 00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:22,640 but only pretty close so our tame experts we we had on board an astrophysicist 279 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:32,480 who had the social skills of an orangutan but a brain the size of the sun and a 280 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:39,600 mathematician who's brain was so big he could hardly get in the room and everything that we did 281 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:47,200 was passed through these two guys and if we made a mistake they told us we'd made a mistake and 282 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:53,680 in most cases we didn't and certainly the information I'm giving you now was vetted by these people 283 00:35:54,800 --> 00:36:01,920 so 99.8 percent they said you don't need to put that in the book that's that's okay that's enough 284 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,360 but we put it in the book anyway because we wanted people to know 285 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:13,440 so what's all of this restricted to the megalithic people for example how did the 286 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:23,360 other measuring systems of the earth come about we knew that the Samarians who lived in what is 287 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:29,040 now Iraq had been pretty bright and we knew that they'd had measuring systems so we decided to take a 288 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:36,720 look and see if they were associated with the measuring systems of the megalithic people so we took a look 289 00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:45,280 at the Samarians we know that they used a 360 degree circle their circle was derived from the 290 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:52,080 corrected movements of the moon because they used the moon for their calendar they were 291 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:59,440 stickless for everything being regular and accurate they were inclined to round things up and down 292 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:06,560 and compensate later because they didn't like fractions they only liked integers they used a 293 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:14,880 partly sexy jessimol partly decimal system of counting and they ended up thinking that 360 294 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:21,600 degrees to a circle was good not least of all because it's a number that's so divisible by 295 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:31,120 so many other numbers we know from archaeological data that their base units of measurement of 296 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:40,560 linear measurement was called a Kush more commonly used as a double Kush which was 99.88 centimetres in length 297 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:49,520 if you want to do what the megalithic people did but using this measurement then you need a 298 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:59,040 pendulum length of 99.88 centimetres if you do that and if you allow that pendulum to swing 299 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:10,720 in this case 240 times as Venus passes through the braced frame then the amount of time that elapses 300 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:19,600 on each beat would be exactly one modern second now the second's pendulum has been 301 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:27,200 in part throughout most of history it was only really abandoned as an ideal unit when the 302 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:36,000 metric system was fully devised back in the 18th century the only reason that the second's pendulum 303 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:45,200 was not used as the basis for the meter is because people felt that at that time there was not a 304 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:55,040 clock in existence that was clever enough to measure exactly one second so in the end what the 305 00:38:55,040 --> 00:39:04,640 French did was they divide it a quarter of the earth ultimately into 40,000 for the whole earth 306 00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:12,000 10,000 for the quarter of the earth they call that the kilometer and they split that in order to finally 307 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:21,840 get down to the meter so the meter is a tiny bit different than the second's pendulum which let me 308 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:31,360 reiterate is a pendulum where one swing equals one second now all the information that we've 309 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:38,480 dug out on the Samarians and their measuring system has gone down like a ledge balloon with modern 310 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:47,760 theorists because nobody wants it sad that 4,000 years ago the metric system already existed 311 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:56,400 but it did and it existed in every one of its facets so the base unit double-cush and we've got to 312 00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:04,560 one second for the pendulum so how does that relate to the other measurements we just have to make 313 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:12,240 another cube we make a cube that's one tenth of a double-cush sides and it holds a leech of water 314 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:19,520 in this case they didn't use serial grains they're just used water because the weight of water in that 315 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:28,240 cube would equal one kilogram and again it isn't close bearing in mind that our starting point is 99.88 316 00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:37,440 centimeters and not 100 centimeters it is absolutely accurate which brings us to this the Samarian 317 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:43,920 measuring system and the metric system are to all intents and purposes the same system 318 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:53,280 why is this not known or more worryingly why is it still denied now I can understand that the 319 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:58,800 French in particular found themselves in a very embarrassing position at the time the metric 320 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:08,080 system was devised there was no real knowledge of what the Samarians and the Babylonians are done 321 00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:15,200 it was only after that time that archaeology started to fill in the gaps it must have been very 322 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:22,240 worrying to the inventors of the metric system as it gradually became apparent that the system that 323 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:31,600 they'd invented lockstock and barrel was actually 4,000 years old and once science and scientists 324 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:39,040 take a particular view of something it can take generations for that to change they don't like 325 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:47,840 going back so the inventors sorts of excuses and say that the double cush is not equivalent to 326 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:57,440 the measurement that they used for liquids but when you really look at the history as far as it is known 327 00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:03,920 it's quite apparent that what we've got here is an integrated system now it's not as clever 328 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:10,720 as the megalithic system because the megalithic system because it's based upon the size of the earth 329 00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:20,400 and the mass of the earth is good for measuring time distance weight volume mass a whole 330 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:29,120 multitude of things in one integrated measuring system which starts out with that one megalithic 331 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:38,720 earth the time keeping methodology of the Samarian measuring system owes a great deal to what must have 332 00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:44,800 come from the megalithic people but has been distorted because the insisted on using 360 degrees to the 333 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:50,720 circle so everything else changed in size as well which is y a meatory is bigger than a megalithic 334 00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:59,520 yard and which is y a kilogram is heavier than a pound but essentially the methodology was exactly 335 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:08,400 the same so we'd come to the end of an awful lot of work and we'd found this amazing system 336 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:14,880 and we felt that we were almost ready to write our book but there was one more question that we 337 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:22,560 had to ask ourselves were we looking at something which was endemic was could it be that the 338 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:27,680 megalithic yard although we'd found a way to measure it and reproduce it could it be that it was 339 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:35,280 a part of the way that nature functions we didn't know of any such measurement there's nothing in 340 00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:40,880 nature which is always exactly the same but maybe we'd hit upon something and with an eye 341 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:49,360 towards the Nobel Prize for physics we decided to have a look around the solar system see if we could 342 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:57,280 find something that might prove the megalithic yard we got the shock of our lives you cannot find 343 00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:04,720 the megalithic yard on any of the planets apart from the earth you can't find it on any 344 00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:13,520 exact one of the asteroids and that is in itself another story so it's not a unit of nature 345 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:27,040 it's a unit of this part of the solar system but now it goes further than that it includes the sun 346 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:37,920 the earth and the moon and it does so in this way the moon is 3.66 times smaller than the earth there's 347 00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:44,240 that number again I've came we moved the decimal point but it's the same number and the moon is 348 00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:52,800 400 times smaller than the sun the only reason that solar eclipse is a possible is because the moon 349 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:59,040 is 400 times smaller than the sun and because it orbits in a position when seen from the earth 350 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,880 400 times the distance between the earth and the sun so what we see is a line of sight effect 351 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:13,360 of course the moon is infinitesimally tiny compared to the sun but it's much closer to us and it just 352 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:21,120 so happens that when it crosses the face of the sun it blocks out the sun exactly and that's when we see 353 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:31,520 a solar eclipse now because of these measurements because of the 3.66 times because of the 354 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:41,200 400 times and because of the actual physical dimensions of the objects concerned we find this 355 00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:49,120 one megalithic second of arc of the moon equals exactly 100 megalithic yards 356 00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:59,840 one megalithic second of the sun equals 40,000 megalithic yards there are no smaller integers involved 357 00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:10,400 these are well over 99.9% accurate which again as our physicist and our mathematician told us 358 00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:18,560 well within what any scientific experiment would have to accept as being genuine 359 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:27,840 so the megalithic yard doesn't just work on the earth it works on the moon and it works on the sun 360 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:37,280 so how could that have come about and that left us at the end of civilization one asking 361 00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:45,200 ourselves a question as intelligent and as wonderful as our megalithic ancestors were could they actually 362 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:51,040 have come up with a system like this on their own would it have been possible for them to know the exact 363 00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:58,480 dimensions of the moon and of the sun and to be able to create a system that fitted all three of 364 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:06,320 those planetary bodies well and the sun and at the same time have them work in the way they did 365 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:15,440 it seemed to us that it was fairly unlikely so at the end of our book we were faced with trying to 366 00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:24,480 work out how this had come about either these people were genuinely incredibly bright 367 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:32,240 or had there been a civilization in the past that knew as much if not more about these things 368 00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:39,920 than we know now and that they had created this system we had to ask ourselves also to be fair 369 00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:50,480 whether God could have done it but the thing is that the moon is absolutely critical to the earth 370 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:57,360 we would not be sitting here and standing here today if it were not for the moon the moon does so 371 00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:04,800 much for the earth that without going into detail which is another talking itself we could not 372 00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:10,320 comprehend that life on earth would exist at all if it were not for the presence of the moon and for a whole 373 00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:20,160 plethora of reasons so it appears like the moon was injected into the system and we went on 374 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:24,880 to write a little book Chris and I called who built the moon which you might also find interesting 375 00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:31,680 but in the meantime we couldn't really answer our own question we couldn't say why 376 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:40,000 this was the way it was we just knew it was incredible and we wanted to tell the world 377 00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:46,560 that you shouldn't always believe what orthodox science says and that if orthodox science 378 00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:52,560 won't listen to reason then there's something wrong somewhere on the line and I've learned 379 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:57,840 since that time that this happens in all manner of ways and all of you who are interested in this 380 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:03,840 kind of subject matter we'll also know how many people that are in the world that tell you that what 381 00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:10,400 you find to be true is not true but when you can take a calculator and a piece of string 382 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:17,120 and a bracelet wouldn't frame and you can reproduce it in front of anybody then it's 383 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:26,320 valid whether or not orthodox science chooses to accept it there was one last thing which we wanted to know 384 00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:37,840 we had come upon the unit of 366 magnific yards but try as hard as we could we could not find 385 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:45,200 that unity of measurement in any of the stone circles that either we or Alexander Tom had measured 386 00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:54,640 it was a bit difficult because we reasoned that if they'd known about this unit which they're 387 00:49:54,720 --> 00:50:02,560 clearly must have done then why had they never actually used it what it turned out they did we just 388 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:09,440 hadn't been looking in the right places and within two months of civilisation one being published 389 00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:16,960 we came upon it and once we started to find it we found it everywhere so there we were in search 390 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:22,640 of 366 magnific yards I've just got a few minutes left and I want to tell you I once watched 391 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:30,720 a documentary by Dan Crookshank who does great documentaries on architecture and so forth 392 00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:36,480 and in this particular program he happens to be looking at the city of Bath in the south of England 393 00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:46,000 and he was looking in specifics at a circular structure of Georgian houses which is called King Circus 394 00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:52,800 and he happened to mention in the program what the dimensions of King Circus were 395 00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:59,600 ideally fell off the city because I'd recognize the numbers immediately he turned out that King Circus 396 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:11,280 had a circumference of exactly 366 magnific yards now I thought that strange it wasn't built by 397 00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:18,240 our magnific ancestors but it was built by a guy called John Wood John Wood in the 18th century 398 00:51:18,240 --> 00:51:24,960 was a foremost member of the ancient order of druids he probably also was a very early free Mason 399 00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:32,080 he was utterly obsessed with magnific monuments and he'd written a whole book on stone hench 400 00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:38,080 so it wasn't long before Chris and I were able to work out that what he'd done is he'd replicated 401 00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:45,040 the dimensions of stone hench in this particular structure in Bath which you can go and see it's 402 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:53,600 amazing should he or the echo from the centre of it now so we went back to stone hench he hadn't used 403 00:51:53,600 --> 00:52:03,920 the megalithic stones for his measurements he'd used the ditch and bank and when we went back 404 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:10,400 to look at many other examples across the British Isles and beyond we discovered that the 405 00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:20,720 megalithic yard was so old that it predated the stones inside these hinges but it was also 406 00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:29,200 probably because it's a very big unit 366 magnific yards Tom knew that the megalithic yard was used 407 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:35,120 in the construction of the stone circles but none of them were big enough to have a circumference 408 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:42,800 of 366 magnific yards but the hinges within which they were built did a hench for anyone who doesn't 409 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:49,520 know is a circular bank in ditch with one or more entrances we know they were not defensive 410 00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:56,240 because in all cases except stone hench unfortunately the ditch is inside the bank which would make 411 00:52:56,320 --> 00:53:01,440 them useless for defense so there were obviously used something else and since many of them ended up 412 00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:07,360 having stone circles inside them we can be fairly sure that whether you they were used for astronomy 413 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:15,360 ritual and probably religious purposes so once having found this out about stone hench we cast 414 00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:22,160 around and we found something amazing and it was right on our own doorstep in North Yorkshire 415 00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:29,600 not far from ripen he's a series of giant hinges which are called thombra hinges 416 00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:37,920 they are so big on the landscape that it is just too incredible for words you can see the three of 417 00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:44,080 them here the top one is heavily wooded so you can see it's got trees on it then there's a one 418 00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:49,360 in the middle and then there's a one below you may also be able to appreciate that although 419 00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:56,400 they're almost in a line they're not exactly aligned and the reason for that is they were clearly built 420 00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:05,200 to represent three stars the stars of Orion's belt when you take Orion's belt from the sky 421 00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:15,440 and you project it down onto thombra hinges the fit is absolutely exact so there's no doubt about 422 00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:24,800 that's what they were intended to do but they did it mathematically correctly as well each hench 423 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:33,520 in thombra hinges is equivalent to five times 365's and megalithic yards in circumference 424 00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:42,160 the gap between the top hench and the middle hench is 365's and megalithic rods 425 00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:48,160 the gap between the middle hench and the bottom hench is 360 megalithic rods 426 00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:54,160 almost as if they were trying to show that they understood that there were two different forms 427 00:54:54,160 --> 00:55:00,000 of geometry we've never been able to prove that but we often wondered but in any case the second 428 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:06,640 gap would have to be smaller in order to allow for the fit between the three hinges and the 429 00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:14,240 stars of Orion's belt it's coming to the end of my talk now I hope that I haven't 430 00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:21,120 bamboosled you with numbers you can look at the book yourselves you don't have to buy one you can 431 00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:26,160 get one from a library it will give you the chance to go back if there's something you don't 432 00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:32,800 at first understand but all I can say is this is an extremely simple form of mathematics you might 433 00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:39,680 not sound that way now but it is and we have when it comes to making the megalithic yard for 434 00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:46,720 example we've had it done by primary school children they understand it only to well so we're not 435 00:55:46,720 --> 00:55:55,440 talking about anything complicated but somehow the most incredibly intricate and yet simplest 436 00:55:55,440 --> 00:56:04,080 form of a complete measuring system is at least 6,000 years old and although no archaeologists are 437 00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:11,440 scientists will admit it it's there for anybody to see for themselves whether or not they invented it 438 00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:17,840 our megalithic ancestors most certainly used it and understood it which makes them amongst the most 439 00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:23,680 incredible people who were ever inhabited the face of this planet we often run away with the idea 440 00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:29,520 that those people who lived in the past were less intelligent than us that is simply not true 441 00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:36,640 they didn't have our technology but they found other ways to do things I could only say that for the 442 00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:44,320 last 30 years it has been the proudest achievement of my life to look at these most incredible people 443 00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:49,760 who walked the same ground we've walked now thank you very much