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X-Rays had NOTHING to do with The Shroud!! I said it was ONLY BECAUSE it was X-RAYED that Jesus’s image was able to be seen!

Again, not criticizing, trying to get what you are saying:

I am not grasping what you are getting at. What do X-rays have anything to do with it?

Are you proposing that X-rays emanating from Jesus’ body made the image 2000 years ago? There are a few scientists, who like Dr. Marc Gascin, MD, PhD, a radiologist, whose paper I heard presented, propose that due to the fact that we can see on the Shroud some internal structures of bones in the hands, the orbits around the eyes, and teeth under the lips. But aside from that, we have no proof that X-Rays ever had anything to do with the formation of the image. For all we know, gravitons, neutrons, or a time distortion may have been the cause of the image.

Or are you saying that Secondo Pia somehow X-rayed the Shroud in 1898, thus developing and revealing the image to the world? If that is what you are saying, then that’s flat out wrong.

All Secondo Pia did was take a photo of the Shroud for the first time. No one had ever been allowed to do that before. When he developed the glass plate negative, he suddenly realized that instead of a seeing a normal photographic negative image, he was seeing was a black and white photographic positive image of Jesus, making him the very first person in 1,900 years to look upon the visage of Jesus. He used no X-Rays in making his photograph. Prior to Pia seeing that glass plate in his fixative bath solution in his dark room, everyone else looking at the Shroud had been looking at an inverted light for dark negative image on the Shroud.

No one X-rayed the Shroud until the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP) scientists did so in 1978. Unsurprisingly, that X-ray did not reveal anything of much interest.