Lost Ancient Technologies

In my blog post on King Solomon's Temple and Other Large Buildings, I promoted the idea that buildings were made from larger blocks of stone in ancient times than during more recent times because gravity was less in the distant past. The technology used to build ancient buildings was precisely the same as that used in more recent times. They lifted things using ropes and winches. However, with less gravity, they could lift larger blocks of rock than what was possible closer to our own time.

Once we accept the idea that gravity was less, the size of the rocks used to build ancient buildings and monuments become less mysterious. There is no need to believe that the ancients knew something that we don't know today.

However, there is a second mystery related to ancient buildings and stone carvings. The precision and apparent ease with which rocks were cut is at times quite baffling. It is as if hard rocks like granite were mere clay to the craftsmen. Again, we are faced with a mystery in which some ancient technology has been lost. But maybe this too can be explained by a change in the physical environment in which the ancients lived.

If gravity has increased due to mass condensation, then there might have been a change in the relative hardness of materials as a direct consequence. Metal tools may have been relatively much harder than rock back in ancient times. Where we need a diamond saw to cut through rock today, applying pressure with a bronze knife might have been enough in the past?

By Work of Romanian goverment 

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The hardness of a mineral is determined by the strength of bonds and the structure of the mineral lattice. This is an electrical property. If the nuclei of atoms have increased in mass by accumulating charged quanta, it requires no big stretch of the imagination to think that the strength of chemical bonds may have changed too.

The mysterious loss of technology may in fact have been entirely due to a change in environment, both gravitational and chemical. Technologies that used to work fine, simply stopped working.