Posted on 12/31/2011 5:23:11 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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Thanks Red Badger for the ping, and thanks Engraved-on-His-hands for posting the topic and the elucidation. |
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Oh-oh.
'The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago'and that's all I'm sayin' on that.
So if it’s supposed to be a triangular [or rectangular] pyramid, how much more rock is needed at the base and each successive row in order to make the pyramid one stone taller - while keeping the optimal ratios?
That’s a pretty good math problem! Answers vary and can probably be written as a cubic or quartic function ;)
It is a great math problem, because not only are you having to figure out the size of the base, as it relates to height, you are also having to take into account the weight of the rock and how much it can support before it fails as a foundation.
Yes, engineering and physics were invented just for this reason - to create great math problems
I always interpreted the era of Peleg as the time the earth literally divided...that is, the earth was separated into the continents we have today, not necessarily the time at which the split of languages occurred.
In Genesis 11.9 where the KJV has the word Babel, the Septuagint text has Synchysis which means "confusion."
Babylon appears to be a very ancient site, but it was an insignificant place until the time of King Hammurabi in the 18th century B.C. The main Assyrian cities were further north near modern Mosul--there were periods when the Assyrians dominated all of Mesopotamia, but these were later than the time period the Bible envisions for the building of the Tower of Babel.
The Babylonian Empire of the time of Nebuchadnezzar is sometimes called the Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean Empire--they don't seem to be directly descended from the rulers of the first Babylonian Empire (there was an interval when an alien group, the Kassites, ruled Babylonia for several centuries).
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