Joe Marino writes: “Just found these on YouTube and don’t think I’ve seen previously. Each part about 60 minutes.”
New to me, too. Great find!
In case you need them, here are the URLs:
Joe Marino writes: “Just found these on YouTube and don’t think I’ve seen previously. Each part about 60 minutes.”
New to me, too. Great find!
In case you need them, here are the URLs:
Hi Dan! I look forward to your daily posts. I am currently engaged in an online “debate” with someone who insists on nothing less than a “peer review in a respected scientific journal.” I figure if anyone had such references at his fingertips it’d be you. Can you suggest one?
Keep up the good fight!
Joe Veneroso
Hi Joe, have a look at http://www.shroud.com/78papers.htm.
Beautiful presentation, thanks Joe and Dan. John Jackson is a very honest scientist and Christian who has given, and continues to give, a lot to Shroud research.
There’s quite an interesting comment at the end of Part 1, where Jackson demonstrates that the spectrographic data from the inage is indistinguishable from that of the scorches. He says (from 56:42): “What you find is that when you compare a reflectance curve for the body image … with the scorched areas from the 1532 fire, that within the precision of the experiment … the variation of those two curves compared to one another is basically indistinguishable. We even see the same hump repeated at about 425nm over here. This is very strong presumptive evidence that the chemistry of the body image is indeed like … the linen of the Shroud when it is scorched, when it is thermally discoloured; like taking a hot iron and putting it on the cloth and discolouring it.” So, in 2004, Jackson thought the image chemistry was that of a scorch.
Hmm.
Hugh, the global evidence concerning the blood and serum stains contradict completely the idea of a human forgery done with an artistic technique (no matter if we think about a scorch technique or something else)… If you really want to prove the Shroud to be the work of a forger, please start building a scenario involving someone who used the real corpse of a real crucified person in order to create a false Christian relic. Other than this, any scenario do not match with the whole picture given by the data collected and analyzed during the 1978 investigation.
My personal opinion is that the blood stains are made of blood. I do not find them a problem for either the authenticity or the non-authenticity case. However the formation of the image from a dead body is at least as problematical, if not more so, that the formation of the image by artificial means. The trend among those who contemplate a 13th century possibility (even if they actually believe the Shroud to be authentic) seems to be towards a chemical scorch, possibly by the application of a hot object, although that hypothesis seems to be weaking, or by heat generated from a chemical reaction, currently being discussed, or by a long-term interaction between cloth and some applied substance (paint/glue or similar) which has since been removed.
The dead body proponents, such as yourself, not only have to produce a chemical explanation, such as the post-mortem gas or lactic acid emission and its reaction with something on the surface of the cloth, but also to explain how this gas moved exclusively in a vertical direction, and did not spread out having reached the cloth. This has never been satisfactorily addressed, even by Roger’s. whose attempt was, even by his own admission, somewhat speculative. Furthermore, the dead body proponents have to explain the contact/distance dichotomy, the pose of the dead man and the configuration of the Shroud over him. These have been addressed in some detail by various people, but not, so far, sufficiently coherently to provide a satisfactory demonstration that the image was in fact made by a dead body.
“…possibly by the application of a hot object, although that hypothesis seems to be weaking, or by heat generated from a chemical reaction, currently being discussed, or by a long-term interaction between cloth and some applied substance (paint/glue or similar) which has since been removed…”
My italics.
So what do you reckon on my quicklime idea, Hugh? Realistic scenario? Think moisture-emanating imprint, captured as a thermochemical scorch on the OUTSIDE of the shroud.
(email just arrived to say 1kg of quicklime has been dispatched)
Hugh, funny you just found this interesting and missed 27:01 when he can explains how a scorch is visible in transmitted light but the image isn’t.
I didn’t find the earlier comment particularly new – it was typical of many things often said about the Shroud by the STURP team. However it adds to the interest of the later remark, don’t you think?
John Jackson has always held that position, that is, The image looks like a scorch but doesn’t have all the characteristics of a scorch (re-image superficiality). It’s part of why he is inclined to a flash radiant image producing mechanism. I believe he also experimented with a hot scorch but found the exposure time required to achieve that depth extremely short (but I don’t have the reference to that study, I just heared him talk about it)
Mike, you can say that again.