Stupid Pyramids

[Anomalocaris]

The speed of propagation of all electromagnetic waves change when they pass through any medium, so they always refract and scatter to various degrees as they encounter any transition between different mediums, be those medium air, granite, lime stone, whatever.    They will refract and scatter and when they go from outside air through the surface of the pyramid, they will scatter and refract when they go from one stone to another, from one type of stone to another.   they will refract and scatter differently if the stones are touching, than if there is any substantial air gap.   Depending on the geometry of surface of the material they go through, they will sometimes crudely appear to focus, just as a droplet of water can focus sun light.


So the article in effect said "things happen to electromagnetic waves when they go through pyramid, isn't that neat".    I am sure no competent reviewer will venture to disagree with the assertion that "things happen to electromagnetic waves when they go through pyramids".    "Isn't it neat" doesn't warrant a review.  Hence it passed peer review.


But you know, "things happen to electromagnetic waves when they go through any thing, isn't that neat".    Things that happen to electromagnetic waves when they go through pyramid aren't in principle different from what happens to them when they go through the Parthenon, the Taj mahal,  Mt Rushmore, the great Zimbabwe, or the pile of talus and scree at the bottom of any eroded remains of any natural rock outcropping.


The woo part comes not from ""things happen to electromagnetic waves when they go through pyramid".   It comes from the unwritten (therefore unreviewable) implication of "PYRAMID! PYRAMID! PYRAMID!", when it could have been "anything, anything, anything".