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Joe Rogan Experience #2142 - Christopher Dunn

Engineer Christopher Dunn argues the Great Pyramid was a machine, an electron-harvesting power plant, citing precision drill cores, vases, and shaft design.

Joe Rogan Experience #2142 - Christopher Dunn
The guest

Christopher Dunn: British-born manufacturing engineer and author who reverse-engineers ancient Egyptian artifacts; proponent of the 'Giza power plant' theory.

What this episode covers

Christopher Dunn walks Joe Rogan through decades of his engineering analysis of ancient Egyptian artifacts. He details the spiral-grooved granite drill cores he says penetrate stone 500 times faster than modern diamond drills, and the granite vases machined to within a fraction of a human hair, including impossible carved handles. The bulk of the conversation lays out his theory that the Great Pyramid was an electron-harvesting power plant: chemicals in the Queen's chamber shafts boil off hydrogen, a subterranean device couples the pyramid to the Earth's vibration, and the king's chamber shafts act as microwave waveguides driving a maser-like reaction. He ties in NASA physicist Friedemann Freund's earthquake-lights research, Tesla's wireless power, the f-sharp resonance of the king's chamber, and the Marfa lights. Dunn frames mainstream archaeology as systemically dismissive of engineers and promotes his books, including the newest, Giza: The Tesla Connection.

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt

Christopher Dunn

“they're the same one uh and they're from Lost Technologies of ancient Egypt”— Christopher Dunn
BookBy the guestISBN verified

The Giza Power Plant

Christopher Dunn

“my first book pretty much describes what I thought it was uh in 1998 which was a power plant the book is entitled the Giza power plant”— Christopher Dunn
BookBy the guest

Giza: The Tesla Connection

Christopher Dunn

“and then the newest one newest one is what does it say on that one Giza the Tesla connection”— Christopher Dunn

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

BookReferencedISBN verified

Secrets of the Great Pyramid

Peter Tompkins

“in 1977 uh I picked up Peter Tomkins book secrets of the Great Pyramid and I started to examine uh that book”— Christopher Dunn
BookReferenced

Giza: The Power of the Truth

Chris Ogilvie-Herald and Ian Lawton

“it was by uh uh Chris olov heral and Ian Lawson and they it's called geese of the truth”— Christopher Dunn
BookReferencedISBN verified

Under the Sphinx

Manu Seyfzadeh

“a fellow researcher uh Manu sh he wrote the book uh under the Sphinx uh he had posted on Facebook uh a paper”— Christopher Dunn

Big reveals from this episode

  • Dunn says the Egyptian granite drill cores penetrated about 100,000ths of an inch per revolution, roughly 500 times more than a modern diamond drill's feed rate.
  • He re-examined Petri core number seven in person using a cotton thread and 10x magnification and confirmed the groove is a continuous spiral, contradicting researchers who claimed it was horizontal.
  • The granite vases are accurate to within about two and a half thousandths of an inch (a human hair), with handles carved into the solid stone that defy a potter's wheel explanation.
  • Dunn's core thesis: the Great Pyramid was not a tomb but a power plant, later refined to an 'electron harvester.'
  • He interprets the king's chamber northern shaft as a microwave waveguide whose dimensions match the wavelength of hydrogen.
  • The king's chamber acts as a coupled oscillator with the Earth, driven by an 'earthquake machine' device in the subterranean chamber.
  • Shaft bend geometry suggests the grand gallery wall blocks may be just under 13 feet thick, far larger than assumed.
  • The gold cap and smooth limestone casing tie to Freund's lab experiment releasing electrons from pressed granite and Tesla's wireless power transmission.

Worth remembering

  • Dunn published 'Advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt?' in Analog science fiction/science fact magazine in August 1984.
  • Drilling his own test hole with copper, corundum grit and a jig took Dunn about a day and a half to two days for a 2-2.5 inch deep hole.
  • Conventional ferrous metallurgy via bloomery smelting is dated to roughly 1200 BC; Tutankhamun's meteoric-iron dagger dates to 1334-1325 BC.
  • The ScanPyramids muography project revealed a large void above the grand gallery, longer than the king's chamber, about the size of a Boeing 707 cabin.
  • In 1993 German engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink's robot Upuaut explored the Queen's chamber shafts and found a block with two metal fittings.
  • An acoustics team reported the king's chamber resonates at an F-sharp, described in some texts as a harmonic center linked to the Earth.
  • Physicist Dustin Carr built a working nano guitar at Cornell with strings about 100 atoms wide, played with a laser.
  • In 2021 humanity quarried enough coal by weight to build a pyramid 76 times bigger than the Great Pyramid.
  • The king's chamber granite was transported from quarries roughly 500 miles away, with blocks weighing up to 70 tons.
  • Dunn links the Marfa lights of West Texas to Freund's effect: positive charge carriers released from the lithosphere ionizing the air.