Manchester Museum time-lapse 'shows Egyptian statue move'

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23029507

Manchester Museum time-lapse 'shows Egyptian statue move'

MUMMY!

[Gary L]

Blu-Tack

[Wicked_and_Crazy]

oh for goodness sake, granite on glass. Of course its nothing to do with vibrations.....

[Qtx]

Is she a crazy woman or getting free publicity to draw visitors in to the museum?

It's obviously vibrations but I get the impression she is serious in thinking its something else. Probably believes in ghosts and psychics too!

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there have been speculations that it's all to do with the curse invoked by Lord Carnarvon's incursion on
the Tutankhamen Tomb

[thenry]

Originally Posted by Gary L

Blu-Tack

[Russ]

I love how Prof Brian Cox is doing his nut over this. While there's probably a simple explanation about it his facade of being 'cool and trendy' starts to slide whenever he hears someone suggest that it might be some sort of Egyptian 'curse'

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Originally Posted by Russ

I love how Prof Brian Cox is doing his nut over this. While there's probably a simple explanation about it his facade of being 'cool and trendy' starts to slide whenever he hears someone suggest that it might be some sort of Egyptian 'curse'

it's probably someone using a jackhammer outside

[Russ]

Wouldn't that effect the other items in the cabinet? Note sure if that would make it go around in a perfect circle as it does.

Plus there chances are someone *may* hear it...

[joglynne]

Maybe the bluetac was applied to the other artifacts to stop them moving. Whatever is happening in the display case it has certainly resulted in an increase of visitors to the exhibition.

Just goes to show that doing a turn can attract an audience. Maybe his Mummy could hold a hat out for a collection?

[Fawkes]

Originally Posted by Qtx

Is she a crazy woman or getting free publicity to draw visitors in to the museum?

Nice bit of viral marketing if you ask me.

[Qtx]

Originally Posted by Qtx

Is she a crazy woman or getting free publicity to draw visitors in to the museum?

It's obviously vibrations but I get the impression she is serious in thinking its something else. Probably believes in ghosts and psychics too!

Egyptian relic curse solved by ITV's Mystery Map

The mystery of why an ancient Egyptian relic in Manchester Museum appeared to spin around by itself has been solved by new ITV programme Mystery Map.

Mystery Map, which investigates myths and mysterious stories, enlisted the help of consultants 24 Acoustics who demonstrated that vibration from traffic and footfall on the road outside the museum was causing the statuette to move.

Vibration expert Steve Gosling undertook a 24-hour test by placing a specialist three-axis sensor under the wall-mounted cabinet containing the relic, to record any vibrations present.

Beginning the test at 6pm in the evening, Steve found there was a peak in vibration level which correlated with movement at this time. Overnight the vibrations stopped and the statue stopped rotating. Movement began again at 7am the following day - at the same time the vibrations also started again.

Did they really need to get acoustic experts in to tell them the bleeding obvious?

Reminds me how bad some tv programs are these day and the way they attempt to make drama out of nothing,

[Russ]

Did it explain why these vibrations don't affect anything else there?

[Pierre]

Harmonics are very complex.

The size, density, positioning of other items, and other items around them, will all affect them differently.

I'm sure it just so happened that all the factors culminated in moving this particular object, in that particular way at those particular times.

I don't think it is up to anyone to prove why other things haven't moved in a similar way