The shroud of Turin is a piece of linen cloth with the face of a man somehow ‘imprinted’ upon it. Whatever the source of the cloth or the identity of the figure, the nature of the image needs some explanation. It is not comprised of dye or paint but seems to be caused by overheating and hence scorching of individual fibres.
The image below shows a close up image of some of the discoloured fibres from a John Campbell video.
John explains:
- This is a close up of the nose of the image
- The yellowed fibres form the building blocks of the image
- The yellow colouration is only one fibre (500 nm) deep
- Yellow fibres sit adjacent to white fibres
- Surface fibres are the most affected
- As the yellow fibres dip beneath the next thread, they become white
The effect does not appear to be formed by pigmentation and the most popular explanation is that the fibres have somehow been overheated by a brief but intense burst of radiation.
This seems problematic:
- What were the causes of this radiation?
- Why are adjacent fibres treated differently
- Why the evenness of the image?
- Why only discolouration at contact points?
The phantom leaf effect
A leaf was placed between two pieces of Perspex and photographed. Pieces were removed (centre and top right) but when the leaf was photographed again under an applied magnetic field, the outline of the missing pieces was still visible. More: The phantom leaf effect
The explanation given by Konstantin Meyl in his book “Scalar Waves” is that tiny vortices of magnetic energy have been formed in the living leaf and have moved to the insulating material of the Perspex wherever there is contact between the two substances.
These vortices form a persistent and stable ‘field’ within the plastic layers in a shape reflecting the contact points of the leaf.
When a magnetic field is later applied to the arrangement, energy is discharged in patterns guided by this persistent ‘morphic’ field and this is what appears in the photograph.
The shroud: a hypothesis
The cloth is laid over the body and electromagnetic vortices travel from the body into the fibres of the cloth at the contact points, possibly aided by sweat at the surface of the skin. The fibres of the cloth are tubular in shape and therefore encourage the formation of ring vortices which may travel along the structure.
These ring vortices are now in a position to absorb more energy from the environment, including from ambient heat, from the infrared in sunlight and from the solar neutrino stream.
If a sudden increase in energy input were to occur then we may expect highly localised heating along the length of individual fibres and if there is enough energy then the heat resulting from this may be enough to discolour the linen on a strand by strand basis.
Contact between body and cloth may be light and so some parts are affected but not others and in this way we can see disparity in colouration for some length along adjacent fibres of cloth at the finest magnification.
A sudden influx of energy
The ring vortices in the cloth are capable of absorption of neutrinos from the solar stream which will help to maintain them within the cloth and even to allow propagation a small way along the fibres.
Now from Meyl, we discover that during an eclipse, the solar neutrino stream is focused by the moon to specific places on Earth and will increase in intensity by a factor of up to 20,000.
This sudden increase in energy is thought to be linked to many events on Earth including plagues, mental disturbance and earthquakes, with the neutrino stream becoming powerful enough to move the tectonic plates. See: Neutrinos, eclipses and plagues.
Meyl is claiming that the energy and resulting heating effect are sufficient to cause spontaneous combustion in hayricks and so certainly there is enough energy to cause burning or oxidation in a piece of linen.
Energy is absorbed by individual ring vortices within the linen strands, is transmitted along the fibre to other existing vortices and when a critical level is reached is shed in the form of ‘heat’ which then promotes a highly localised chemical reaction resulting in the discolouration observed.
Eclipses at the time of the crucifixion?
Opinions differ of course but there are plenty of claims that not only was there an eclipse at the time of the crucifixion but many earthquakes as well. Note that according to the solar neutrino absorption theory, both these are now physically linked.
The Darkness Over Jesus’ Resurrection Was Real and Seen By Many – Reddit:
- “Thallus, in the third book of his histories, explains away the darkness as an eclipse of the sun—unreasonably as it seems to me.” – Julius Africanus
- “On the whole world there pressed a most fearful darkness; and the rocks were rent by an earthquake” – Africanus
- “(there was) the greatest eclipse of the sun’ and that ‘it became night in the sixth hour of the day [i.e., noon] so that stars even appeared in the heavens. There was a great earthquake in Bithynia, and many things were overturned in Nicaea.” – Phlegon
- “on a certain sixth day, and about the sixth hour, the sun, to our great surprise, became obscured, through the moon passing over it. For, when the whole orb had been throughout darkened, by a black mist of darkness, and the sun’s disk had begun again to be purged and to shine anew…” – Dionysus
Questions answered
We are now in a position to address the questions posed above:
Q: Why is the shape of the body reflected in the discolouration?
A: Because the vortices form only at points of contact.
Q: Why is the image only one fibre deep?
A: Because contact is at the surface and ring vortices will travel along the strands in a similar manner to a fibre-optic cable, but not between them.
Q: Why is the discolouration longitudinally uniform
A: Vortices tend to self-organise by moving along the fibre and spacing themselves out evenly
Q: Why does the radiation not scorch the whole cloth?
A: Neutrinos will normally pass right through ‘matter’ and indeed can be measured coming out from the Earth’s surface, having passed right through the planet. They are, however, absorbed by vortices of an electromagnetic nature and are hypothesised to be the mechanism behind the phenomenon of hydro-luminescence. In the shroud then, heating is localised to a microscopic volume of linen, that inhabited by the vortices.
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