Who Built the Moon? By Christopher Knight
What an interesting book. I read this a couple of years ago and found it very eye opening. An alternative look at science. The Moon is a mysterious and enigmatic heavenly body. The ancients were as obsessed with the Moon equally as the Sun. Sometimes it is good for the mind to explore other theories of the Moon. Think outside of the box or, cube.
Am I a Templar? Am I an Assassin? A Lord? A Sir? A Priest? A Monk? A Usurper? A Slaver? A Satanist? A Mystic? A Druid? A Mage? A Kabbalist? A King? A Prince? An Earl or a Duke? A Freemason? I am none of these things but, I know who they are and what they do, I am Leo...expect me. They are they, and we are them. Expect us.
Who built the moon? How did it come to be?
Was it, as in the Bible, created by a deity?
Was it dragged here by some alien race?
Just left there floating, in outer space
Is it a remnant of another heavenly body? A boulder?
Is the Earth young? Is the Moon much older?
Does the Moon control the tides? Like they tell us so
The Oceans, the seas, their ebb and flow
Is the Moon a death star? Like in the movie flicks
Is the Moon an illusion? Is it playing tricks?
One side is dark, the other shines bright
Glowing in the night sky, emitting false light
Does the Moon make people crazy? Lunar, lunacy, madness
When the Moon is Blue, are we filled with sadness?
When the planets align, is this prophecy, like the Bible says
Or just a giant clock, ever lasting, always
Is the Moon a soul catcher? Like the dream works logo
Fishing for souls, recycling them, preventing them to go
Where souls are meant to be, their destiny, a place of no suffering and pain
Does the Moon send souls back to Earth? To live another life, and repeat all over again
So who built the Moon? How did it come to be?
Was it, as in the Bible, created by a deity?
By Leo🐯👍
Maybe it is a hologram, an illusion, not real
Maybe it is made of cheese, like a giant Edam wheel!!!!🐯👍 Christopher Knight
it's the moon, y'all!!!!
...or is it??
my dismissal of the moon-as-entity started some years ago, when they were running all those the moon landing was a hoax and we were just trying to beat the russians, so we lied specials on the teevee. and the man of the house would watch them, and i would breeze through the room and laugh at how earnest these people were; with their the flaaaag! look at how it is mooooving! and these programs really pissed off TMOTH. for someone who genuinely believes in aliens and nessie and gypsy curses*, he also believes in the idea of america, and was personally offended that people would doubt our great achievement. so i started to equate these things in my head, hokum-wise, and the moon landing became as implausible as the jersey devil, simply on the grounds that he believed in both of them. and it is so delightful to be able to lean over any time, apropos of nothing, and whisper, sound stage,
because he invariably makes this outraged face and get really emotionally invested in whether some dudes in the sixties went to the moon and he will start berating me and he will be 100% sincere, as if it matters one bit in our day-to-day lives.
and then, once i realized just how many people believed that the moon landing was a hoax, it seemed a natural progression to widen my playful stance to something even more outrageous, and start my own conspiracy theory party and claim that the moon does not exist at all. and this pisses off conspiracy theorists, which is fun, because obviously i don't believe the moon does not exist for real, but people get so committed to arguing, it is fun to watch their little faces get all red as they try to prove the moon to me. as if i care.
i'm an empiricist. i have never been to brazil. it is really as full of beautiful, sexually permissive people as pop culture would have me believe? i will never know, because i will never go there. hell, i don't even know if brazil exists. SOUND STAGE!!!
but so anyway, my point is that this book was a great gift from our beloved bird brian, because now i know the Truth about the Moon.
want me to spoil it for you??
because, seriously, you have to get through over 150 pages of the 225-page book to get to the point.
there is a lot of this:
We can only assume that a polar circumference was used and taking the 40,008 km figure it translates to 48,221,838 Megalithic Yards using Thom's central value for the unit. It was then subdivided as follows:
Polar circumference = 48,221,838 MY
1 Degree (1/366th) = 131,754 MY
1 Minute (1/60th) = 2,196 MY
1 Second (1/6th) = 366 MY
So, this brilliant system of geometry starts with 366 degrees and finishes with seconds of arc that are 366 Megalithic Yards long. Self-evidently, an amazing set of 'wheels within wheels'!
i mean, i guess that is exciting enough to warrant an exclamation point? i don't know. the last time i did math, i was counting on my fingers. (although i got this really cute teeny tiny calculator for christmas, and i am taking its picture in front of the window to commemorate the one time it snowed in new york this season)
but math just isn't something i get excited about. and magical math, like numerology, forget it. math is not fun. reading is fun. apeiron is fun. eating cookies is fun. making numbers do what you want them to do makes me feel lonely and sad. the authors insist that it is not numerology, but i can't tell the difference here. i don't know shit from poundcake about math or astrophysics.
not a surprise to any of you, i'm sure.
so but the beginning of this book is a lot of blah blah to me. i was not skimming, but a lot of their facts i just had to trust that they researched, because i'm not super-strong on equatorial circumferences and how pendulums work during eclipses and shit. it is all about astronomy and genetics and geology and anthropology and all sorts of hard and social sciences building up to make some Big Point.
which is basically that the moon should not exist. it is too perfectly useful to our planet, and its formation goes against all reason.
I KNOW, RIGHT?? IT DOES NOT EXIST, I WIN!
but, no. they are saying something else.
they are saying it DOES exist (booo) but it was clearly constructed by some entity, and not a naturally-occurring body.
so then there are three explanations given, based on their hypotheses:
1) The Moon was engineered by an unknown agency circa 4.6 billion years ago to act as an incubator to promote intelligent life on Earth.
2) The unknown agency knew that humanoids would be the result of the evolutionary chain.
3) That unknown agency wanted the resulting humanoids to know what had been done and they left a message indicated by the dynamics of the Moon and its relationship with the Earth.
so their three possible solutions are:
1) god made it.
but then they disprove god, so that one is wrong.
(okay, they don't really, but they say why no god could/would have made it)
2) aliens made it.
but then they explain why this could not be so, but do not disprove the existence of aliens.
3) weeee did it! but not we-we (hahahaha wee-wee), but some we from the future.
which is their conclusion. time traveling humans made the moon, because without the moon, we would not exist. chicken. egg.
here is a page of their explanation, to convince you:
Firstly, it has to be acknowledged that there are no other possible candidates that we know of anywhere in the Universe. God exists by faith and not as a result of evidence, and aliens may or may not exist. It is entirely possible that we are totally alone, either in our part of space or in the whole of the Universe. In any case, who would have more to gain from a life-producing planet than the very intelligent creature that has most benefited from its existence, namely humanity?
The question of how the UCA could have known that the intelligent species on Earth would evolve with ten fingers and therefore adopt base-ten arithmetic, at a time when the Moon was exactly where it is today, is answered instantly if humanity is the agency we are seeking. The mystery simply dissolves if we are the unknown creative agency.
Another difficult issue to explain has been how the UCA could possibly have used Megalithic and metric units as part of the message. Once again, this scenario resolves the problem. Indeed, it adds to the message because it makes it very clear that the UCA 'has to be' humans from our future, travelling back in time to manufacture the Moon.
The motive for the message becomes obvious and absolutely necessary. If humans do not become alerted to the need to manufacture the Moon as an incubator for life - we would not be here.
However, there is the problem we can't avoid. Humanity might be described as having been reasonably technologically advanced for around 100 years. The Moon came into being some 4,600,000,000,000 years ago. We have to admit that this does represent a bit of a gap.
The answer can only be time travel.
and there you have it.
that is where our moon comes from.
i think the message part of it is a little suspect, myself. their whole thing is that the message is mathematical perfection of the moon vis-a-vis the earth.
Once complete, our Moon worked its magic and life began, evolving eventually into an intelligent, ten-fingered species that uses Megalithic and metric units. The message had to be built into the very nature of the structure or else we would miss the cue to understand what we need to do.
see, that's exactly the kind of message i have missed. it seems like it would have made more sense to have just sent an email or something. don't expect me to sit around idly calculating the moon's distance from the earth and the circumference and tilt and revolutions in my free time, because that is not going to happen, future humans... don't you know project runway season 11 just started?
AND DO NOT TELL ME WHO WINS, SPOILER-FUTURE-HUMANS!
but it's good that someone understood this message, and thank you for building the moon because i think the tides are awesome.
however, the authors, one of whom may or may not be
made one fatal error. although there is that whole chapter saying noooo, it couldn't be aliens, nope!, at one point he says,
Humans are incredibly robust creatures considering we are little more than animated bags of water hanging on a mineral frame.
THAT SOUNDS LIKE ALIEN TALK TO ME, BUDDY!
don't say we, because i am on to you now.
so mayyybe it was time-traveling humans, and mayyyybe it was aliens disguising themselves as human authors. perhaps brazilians. i don't know. all i know is I READ THIS BOOK!
* if you think i am joking, you are wrong - he totally believes in gypsy curses**, and that is another fun thing to mutter because apparently just saying the phrase gypsy curse is enough to cause one to fall upon your head.
**which i think is supposed to be called roma disagreements these days, but oops.
come to my blog! Christopher Knight The authors of this book ask that the reader keeps an open mind.
I tried, I really did.
And at first it was good fun, it was like listening stoned hippies talking about all the weird things.
Like the moon. The moon is weird.
It's too big, too close, too light, too hollow. It just shouldn't exist.
If the moon wasn't there the earth would fall over. The moon is exactly the same apparent size as the sun (except when it isn't). If we didn't have a moon life wouldn't have developed on earth at all. That's weird.
Apparently the moon is so weird that it can't possibly be natural, it has to be artificial. In order to support this claim the authors invoke all sorts of other weirdness, DNA, megalithic yards, Sumerian geometry, black holes, closed time like curves, quantum physics, and planetary motion.
All this (we are told) proves the authors' thesis, that the moon was created artificially to cause human evolution, and the architects of this feat are us.
Yes, in the future humans will be so clever they will build a time machine, go back into the past, build the moon and set the whole thing in motion so that we can evolve and become clever enough to make a time machine.
All well and good. Pass the doobie this way, my mind is open and my brain has fallen out.
Unfortunately the authors themselves get all serious and keep their own minds closed.
Having thought of such a wonderful theory (and supported it with mostly unreferenced science) they insist that it as true, there can be no argument and no discussion. This is the truth and they have demonstrated it to their a own satisfaction, therefore it is unarguable, inalienable, and obvious to anyone who is brave enough to slavishly follow their lead.
'Baa' said the sheeple.
Whatever, it was a laugh.
Christopher Knight خیلی ایده درخشانی نداشت. از این دست فرضیات متوهمانه براساس چند تا سرنخ کوچیک خیلی هم دور. از این سرنخها نتایج راحت تر و دم دست تری هم میشد گرفت.
اما چند تا ن��ته علمی جالب توش بود.
برای من جالب ترینش، چگالی خیلی پایین ماه بود. اینکه انگار تو خالی باشه.
بحث یارد مگالیتی هم بد نبود. اینکه چطور در یک دوره، قسمت زیادی از دنیا از این واحد استفاده میکردند.
همین و بس! Christopher Knight All right. I was super into this when I first started it. 100% - the moon is a terrifying vigilant monster that haunts every moment of our lives and none of us understand anything about it least of all those who have been there. Great.
And the beginning of the book was solid to, as it laid out the grounds for the problem and began to suppose issues that the moon's improbable existence poses.
But all too quickly, the books sink into what I've started calling Ancient Aliens Logic. It goes something like this:
- Here is a problem for which there are either a) no satisfying scientific answers, or b) the scientific response is too boring.
- Here is some evidence that indicates a different possibility than what science offers.
- Based on nothing that this evidence indicates, here is totally unqualified conjectural hypothesis X.
- So now that we know X is true. . .
And this the moon is a hollow sphere planted there to create life and it was probably us from the future that did it.
And I tried so hard to like this book. Christopher Knight
The moon has confounded scientists for many years. It does not obey the known rules of astrophysics and there is no theory of its origin that explains the known facts--in fact it should not really be there...
The authors of Civilization One return, bringing new evidence about the Moon that will shake up our world. Christopher Knight and Alan Butler realized that the ancient system of geometry they presented in their earlier, breakthrough study works as perfectly for the Moon as it does the Earth. On further investigation, they found a consistent sequence of beautiful integer numbers when looking at every major aspect of the Moon--no such pattern emerges for any other planet or moon in the solar system. In addition, Knight and Butler discovered that the Moon possesses few or no heavy metals and has no core—something that should not be possible. Their persuasive conclusion: if higher life only developed on Earth because the Moon is exactly what it is and where it is, it becomes unreasonable to cling to the idea that the Moon is a natural object. The only question that remains is, who built it? Who Built the Moon?
The authors of this book suggest that the moon is artificial, and that we built it: that is, human beings from the future. If you don't think that's worth reading, you're unimaginative. Christopher Knight One of the most wildly brilliant books I've read, it's science meets philosophy with a twist of conspiracy, and a real thinking book. The coincidences of the moon, it's size, distance, make-up, relationship to life on Earth, is all too coincidental to be an mere Darwinian accident.
Knowledge of science in this country has taken a nose dive in the last century, thanks to JD Rockefeller and his General Education Board in WW1, but that is a different topic. How many Americans know what the Scientific Method is? Critical thinking is not taught and biased political-socio-economic views now dominate all subjects in the state-run training centers. Darwinists criticize religion for the leap of faith required to believe in God while taking a leap of faith with the theory of evolution, while claiming it's settled science. It does not matter that evolution as never been directly observed or duplicated in a lab, which is required to shift a theory to a law or truth.
Einstein's theory of General Relativity was a theory few believed in until scientists around the world could independently observe and measure Einstein's predictions to confirm the theory, at least the central predictions. But today we base our belief in science on feelings, not facts. But the authors do assume Darwinian evolution is true for the sake of their overall argument, and that's okay, all possibilities should be considered in a debate. They do admit that evolution avoids, purposely, how life began in the first place and the odds of just getting to the first single-cell in a primordial soup is so mathematically remote that the human brain can barely comprehend it.
But what does all this have to do with the moon? This book walks through the current knowledge of the moon and its relationship with the Earth including current theories of how it got her in the first place. The authors explore all possibilities, even religious ones, while talking through their thoughts which makes it a very fun and interesting read. The theory of the moon being the sign that we were created, whether by God or an alien race, such as the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, is fascinating. Its relationship with the Megolithic yard and Metric system by ancients, and other theories is mind blowing and thought provoking.
I cannot recommend Who Built the Moon? highly enough, if you're looking for something different to read, to make you think about our world from a new angle, you'll love this book. Christopher Knight The moon was created by aliens because the moon goes around the earth 365 times every 10,000 days. Well put but a little obvious, no? Christopher Knight Bunkum of the least entertaining variety. Christopher Knight Fascinating concept. Really gets the imagination going. Christopher Knight
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