When it comes to lost ancient technologies, there are two things that are immediately apparent to even the casual student of history. Ancient people were able to assemble huge rocks into enormous buildings. They were also able to cut into rocks with apparent ease.
On closer inspection, there is also some evidence that the ancients knew a thing or two about electricity. A modern electric lighting device can be seen depicted in the Hathor temple in Egypt.
This has led many to believe that the ancients knew a lot of things that we have yet to rediscover. Some ancient knowledge has been lost to us.
If the image depicted in the Hathor temple really is an electrical lamp, then it is clear that some ancient knowledge has indeed been lost, only to be recently rediscovered. However, the Egyptian lighting device appears to have held some sacred function. Its assembly and operation was not know to the average craftsman. It could therefore be easily forgotten.
What could not be equally easily forgotten is something as mundane as the cutting and assembly of rocks. This required a lot of craftsmen, and was probably a fairly routine job. Why would this suddenly be forgotten? Even if there was a cataclysmic event, wouldn't the craftsmen have taken their tools with them to assemble houses and temples somewhere else? Wouldn't they tell their children how to use the tools? And why haven't we found the remnants of a single high tech device abandoned in the quarries? All we can find are tools made of stone, bronze and iron, with stone tools being the oldest and iron tools being the newest. This is proof of technological advancement, not decay.
What we see, is that tools used by craftsmen improve over time, while the buildings that they assembled became smaller and less elaborately decorated. This is particularly evident in places where new buildings have been erected on top of or in the vicinity of older ones.
The Roman Temple at Baalbek, Lebanon, was built on the foundations of an older structure. The older structure consists of much larger stones than the newer one. The same is evident at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, an ancient Neolithic site that saw more or less continuous building activity for thousands of years.
What is particularly interesting about Göbekli Tepe is that there is evidence of a slow decay in their architecture. The older buildings are larger and more elaborately adorned than the younger ones. It is as if the people of Göbekli Tepe were suffering from some sort of slow collective Alzheimer. Alternatively, both gravity and the hardness of rocks have increased over time.
If gravity and the hardness of rocks have increased over time due to Halton Arp's mass condensation, then Göbekli Tepe becomes a lot less mysterious. It would also solve another and much more resent mystery.
The concrete used by Romans in their buildings is far harder and stronger than concrete used today. It is as if the Romans knew something about concrete that has been forgotten today. The alternative would be that their concrete has somehow hardened additionally over time. Could it be that Roman concrete and rocks have all become harder? It certainly appears to be the case.
What's more, it appears that the process of hardening has gone hand in hand with the process of becoming heavier, and there is evidence to suggest that the process has been at times very rapid.
Back in Baalbek, there is a nearby quarry with a huge megalithic rock, cut and ready for transportation. Someone went to the trouble of cutting it. Yet, it lies abandoned on the grounds. Why?
Could it be that the rock quite suddenly became much more heavy so that it could no longer be transported? If so, why not simply cut it in half and transport it in parts? Alternatively, slice it into numerous smaller bits and sell it to other customers. Could it be that the monolith became harder at the very same time that it became heavier so that they could neither transport it nor cut it? It certainly appears so.
The last of the Woolly Mammoths went extinct a mere four thousand years ago. This event appears to have been very sudden. Could it be that the Monolith at Baalbek was being cut at the same time that the Mammoths went extinct? Are the two mysteries directly related to a single event?
If so, that event would most likely be a nearby supernova. The gamma ray flash of such an event would have resulted in a huge production of electron positron pairs inside of matter. Atomic nuclei particularly ripe for mass condensation would have been able to accumulate mass at an alarming rate.
From the looks of it, silicates of various types appear to have been particularly susceptible to mass condensation. The monolith of Baalbek is not just a little bigger than what we would consider a reasonably sized rock today. It is a giant. It must have weighed a lot less in ancient times if all they had to move it was rollers, ropes and winches.
Note that bones are silicates too. They would have become stronger, but also heavier. Animals with heavy bone structures, like the Mammoth would have undergone a strange transformation. While their bone structures would be able to resist fracture through the transformation, the muscles would suddenly be wholly inadequate to move them. Just like the workers in Baalbek discovered that they no longer had the muscle capacity to move the monolith that they had cut, the Mammoth's were suddenly unable to carry their own weight. They collapsed and died pretty much instantaneously.
But what about the electric lighting in Egypt? Was that forgotten and abandoned for some unrelated reason, or could this too be a technology that suddenly stopped working?
As mentioned above, the knowledge of the electric lighting, if it ever existed, was in few hands. It would not have taken a great catastrophe to have wiped it from our collective memory. However, it is not totally unreasonable to think that the mechanism used to produce electricity may have suddenly stopped working too. Some clever trick to produce electricity from the atmosphere or through chemical reactions may have been affected in a way related to how silicates became heavier. Unable to find a substitute power source, the device was abandoned and eventually forgotten.
In our modern world, we use all sorts of instruments that are truly mysterious and magical to the average person. We have i-pads, smart phones and digital watches. It is easy to imagine this knowledge suddenly lost through some catastrophic cataclysm. However, building techniques are not and have never been considered high tech. No cataclysm could wipe out our memory of how we build houses.
This suggests to us that it is the environment of the ancient craftsman that underwent a change over time. The technology used by the craftsmen became gradually less efficient. Mostly, the change was slow and imperceptible to the average person. However, every now and again, the change was rapid and dramatic. There was a flash in the sky, and suddenly a lot of things changed.
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