{"id":118930,"date":"2026-05-18T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/118930\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:35:10","slug":"viral-theory-from-tehran-researcher-claims-great-pyramid-was-a-cosmic-beacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/118930\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral theory from Tehran researcher claims Great Pyramid was a cosmic beacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new theory by Jalal Jafari, a researcher affiliated with the Laser and Plasma Institute at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, argues that the Great Pyramid of Giza may have been designed as a cosmic-scale communication system or \u201cgravitational beacon.\u201d The paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/390318825_The_Pyramids_of_Giza_as_Gravitational_Beacons_A_Theoretical_Investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">presenting the theory<\/a>, &#8220;The Pyramids of Giza as Gravitational Beacons: A Theoretical Investigation,\u201d appeared as a non-peer-reviewed preprint on ResearchGate. It was cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/16\/science\/scientists-believe-that-pyramids-could-be-interstellar-transmitters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> and other publications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The theory focuses on the Pyramid of Khufu\u2019s location, geometry, and alignment. Its most attention-grabbing claim is that the pyramid\u2019s latitude, often given as approximately 29.979234\u00b0 N, resembles the speed of light, 299,792,458 meters per second, when the decimal point is shifted. Jafari\u2019s argument presents this as a potentially intentional encoding of a universal constant rather than a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Jafari argued that the numerical match between the pyramid\u2019s latitude and the speed of light is \u201ctoo precise to be accidental,\u201d according to the coverage. The Tehran-based researcher presents the resemblance between 29.979234\u00b0 N and 299,792,458 meters per second as the central clue in his theory that the Great Pyramid may have been deliberately positioned to encode a universal constant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The theory also points to the pyramid\u2019s alignment with the cardinal directions and the layout of the three major Giza pyramids \u2014 Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure \u2014 as part of what it describes as a possible long-term signaling arrangement. In this framing, the Earth\u2019s movement through space and the pyramid\u2019s fixed position could supposedly create a detectable gravitational or cosmic signature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The claim poses significant difficulties. It relies on modern coordinate systems and modern units, including decimal latitude and meters per second, neither of which were used by ancient Egyptians. There is also no demonstrated physical mechanism by which a stone monument could transmit gravitational signals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Mainstream archaeology continues to understand the Giza pyramids as royal funerary monuments of Egypt\u2019s Old Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new theory by Jalal Jafari, a researcher affiliated with the Laser and Plasma Institute at Shahid Beheshti&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[10278,10096,34,40738,2677,5880,69],"class_list":["post-118930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-global-news","tag-iran","tag-pyramids","tag-research","tag-space","tag-tehran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116594666546436406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}