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Who Built the Moon? | 
| Authors: Christopher Knight, Alan Butler
Publisher: Watkins Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 80491
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 262
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 1842931326
Dewey Decimal Number: 520
EAN: 9781842931325
ASIN: 1842931326
Publication Date: August 18, 2005
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 lunar origin December 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book claims that there is no scientific explanation for the moon's origin. This simply not true. There is a very well developed theory that fits the facts extremely well and is being still refined. There is a principle in science known as Occam's Razor. This says that when faced with a set of data, choose the simplest explanation first, and when only when that fails move onto something less obvious. What the authors have done here is reverse the principle. they start with a set of data and the choose the least probable explanation first! There are too many examples of this type of book around.
 astonishing facts but unfounded and illogical conclusions. November 28, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Firstly I'm not sure if I'm a critic or a supporter of this book. I've given it 4 stars because the actual data and numbers that are given are extremely interesting and need to be known by the world. The ratios of days, orbits and diameters, are correct, even if not worded properly: "The moon is exactly 400 times smaller than the sun" should be "the diameter of" the moon, sun etc.
There is clearly something in this that needs further research, but there are a couple of things that bother me about the book.
I personally will not come to a conclusion about what all this means until I have analyzed it far more thoroughly. I might never come to a conclusion about it ever, unless there is an actual fact that proves or disproves something.
That is my main problem with this book, the conclusions the authors come to, have no evidence to support them, its pure speculation. Don't get me wrong, the planetary mechanics and ratios are amazing, and are far too perfect to be coincidence, but that doesn't mean that people from the future did it all, which is what the authors state is their best theory. Theres just as much evidence to support that idea as there is to say the whole solar system is the poo of a giant space fish.
I recommend everyone reads this book before they come to any conclusion and once they've read it don't just settle with the authors ideas. there are more possibilities than just god, aliens or people from the future. Perhaps the solar system is a living organism or maybe theres a completely natural phenomenon where for some reason not yet known to physics, planets harmonize themselves with each other on many different levels ie size, rotation, who knows?
Once these facts become more well known, everyone from Jehovahs witnesses to star trek fans are going to jump on the band wagon and try to use this to support their views.
What I'm trying to say is, the implications of what this could mean are endless, so please don't dismiss these remarkable figures just because someone says it means we are all slaves of the reptilians, or that these facts prove the plot to the terminator films actually happened.
And no matter what anyones opinion is,
The Earth still rotates about 366 times per orbit of the sun, and has a polar diameter 366.0431 percent larger than the moons.
The moon has an orbital period of 27.32 days and has a diameter 27.32 percent that of the Earths polar diameter.
The suns diameter is 109.2 times the size of Earths diameter, and the distance from the earth to the sun when we are at our furthest from it is 109.2 sun diameters.
if you divide 109.2 by 4 you get 27.3
366 moon orbits equal 10000 days
I could go on and on but the fact is you keep on getting the same recurring numbers and multiples of them again and again:
4
27.32
100
109.2
366
Mathematical idiocy November 19, 2006
16 out of 27 found this review helpful
The synopsis tells you all you need to know about this book, in the sentence: "the Moon is exactly 400 times smaller than the Sun."
This is false, of course. The diameter of the moon is 400 times smaller than the diameter of the sun; but that does not mean the moon, as a whole, is 400 times smaller. The moon exists in 3 dimensions, not one. For example, the mass of the moon is about 27 million times smaller than the sun.
This is typical of the logic in this book. They go looking for correspondences, and they find them: even if they have to treat celestial objects as one-dimensional to make their numbers look interesting. They simply stir the facts together in a great big soup, until two disassocated numbers look similar. Then they pluck out the pair and declare "Mystery!"
The fact that a book like this could get published is pathetic. If you want science fiction, there's vastly better and more interesting out there; if you want science, there's simply nothing here. If you want baseless, juvenile speculation, then go hang out with your mates on Friday night and have a few beers. It'll be a lot more fun.
Luna paradox November 12, 2006
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
Dear all, this book provided several interesting facts about the moon's dimensions and location, that appear to be beyond coincidence. I went to the NASA web-site to check the information. I was surprised that the Author didn't express in detail the fact that the Moon's rotation is exactly the same as the time it takes to orbit the Earth, which is why we always see the same face of the moon, it's perfectly syncronised, maybe this is to make us seek what is in the Farside perhaps (by following the Author's logic); though I suspect this was deliberate as the majority of the moons in our solar system share this feature and the Author wanted to demonstrate the uniqueness of our moon, which was achieved by other facts.
The Author's arguments were unbalanced and inconsistent in several areas. After debunking the Conspiracy theory that Man has never been to the Moon, he stated later that Darwin's Natural Selection was correct, however it is clear that Natural Selection remains only a theory of Evolution and has it's fair share of obvious weaknesses, which Darwin confessed.
Strangely enough the Author stated Darwin was correct having just written a chapter explaining how the Evolution of DNA by a Random accident was statistically impossible and therefore it had to have been created. Therefore, I assume, Selection need not have been Natural afterall but part of a created process or program, by following this logic. (I sense the Author was playing it safe by trying to please both Neo-Darwinists and Creationalists.)
If you are a supporter of the Faked Moon Missions then this book is a must read because far from debunking, I found that certain parts of this book actually support the conspiracy (unintentionally). The Author states that several explanations of the Moon's creation were invalid because Moon Rock was identical to certain Rocks from the Earth... meaning the Moon had to have been created from the Earth in the past.. this could also be interpreted by a Conspiracy theorist differently e.g. we never went to the moon and the rocks were actually from the Earth all along, which is why Moon Rock is the same as Earth Rock.
The Final theory of the book is really the weakest argument throughout, creating an obvious Paradox and the Author must have forgotten his earlier claims that Life could not have existed on the Earth without the Moon being there from the start of Life.
Despite the weaknesses this is a worthwhile read and I certainly discovered new facts about the Moon that are intrigueing.
Read it.
NB..
I would still question why it is taking so long to reach the Moon this time with advanced technology available when it was supposedly achieved in the 1960's within a very short-period of time, why couldn't NASA land men back on the Moon within a few years???
 Strange but a very thought provoking argument June 15, 2006
19 out of 26 found this review helpful
Quite remarkable. I came to this unusual book after it was studied by the National Science Teachers Association and found to have a case that required an answer. The maths used in this book are simple, clear and inescapably accurate. I see one reviewer has suggested (without substantiation) that the authors are in some way numerically illiterate. Not so.
People prefer to see proof of what they already believe to be true and it is obviously disconcerting when a book like this brings up so many inconvenient facts. A growing number of scientists are now realising the dishonesty that exists to protect old ideas. Terance Kealey a clinical biochemist and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham has observed "Scientists actually treat facts the way barristers treat hostile witnesses... it is a myth that working scientists always respect falsifiability. Scientists often ignore inconvenient findings".
Anyone who likes to think for themselves should read this fascinating book and deal with the facts as they stand.
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