Written on my home computer 24 september 2025

Written on my home computer 24 september 2025

John Bjarne Grover

From an article in Svenska Dagladet I found this article in National Geographic which contained a photo of an excavation of a 70 million year old dinosaur. It is described in this Wikipedia article. As usual when I see such news I wonder: Has the site of finding been thoroughly scanned? A scan must be completely obligatory in such cases since a knowledge of the fine particles in the surroundings can lead to detailed reconstruction much finer than an excavation can. Briefly: If a book has been lying in soil for 3000 years and is completely dissolved from water and erosion, such a scan (of what looks like a very normal lump of soil) can nevertheless lead to a reconstruction of the book which can be read page by page - that is, if the resolution in the scan is good enough - say, down to nearly molecule level. Could be an area of some metres around the book must be scanned for a complete image, as one could fancy. Such a scan will probably take weeks or months for a small lump of soil and mud etc - and a very large computer can be needed for the reconstruction on basis of the huge amount of data. The photo in National Geographic shows an extremely clear example of a little area that should have been scanned with hyper-resolution taking a long time to complete, even with a very strong computer doing it. It would be everything between the bones that contain the information - precisely what such excavations remove and destroy. The amount of data from a hyperscan could perhaps be all too large to be handled for the present time but can be used for a reconstruction later - and then one can probably come to read out the most amazing details from life in those days. Police told me that they regularly use forensic cameras which can [take] a photo of a burglary weeks after it happened - and the camera can reconstruct clear images of the burglar which even are accepted as evidence in court. That is not by use of fingerprints photographed by the camera - it is by way of particles left at the scene through longer time. It could be a technology that resembles how a photo that is blurred from unsteady camera can be reconstructed to a clear image - because all particles are moved in the same direction and a computer can identify which particles belong together with which. It follows from this that a hyper-scan of such a lump of bones and rock that is shown on the photo in National Geographic can reveal similar details of how the world looked and was experienced by the relevant animal in those days. If this be the case, it follows that of course a complete ban on all such excavation must be exercised until the finding is thoroughly scanned and the data secured. Otherwise such an excavation would otherwise look like the most horrendous vandalism against such a precious knowledge resource.

It is a mystery in the human reality. Think of those egyptian mummies, for example: They are information packages from thousands of years ago created for being hyperscanned today, perfect hermetically packed letters to the future which could tell the most amazing details - but, alas, it is well possible that the last egyptian mummy was broken up with crowbar the day before the hyperscan was invented. All oil is burnt as fossil fuel first and then one regrets it afterwards.

But this must probably be very well known today and one should take it for self-evident that the information package from 70 million years ago - a letter telling how life was in those days - of course has been thoroughly scanned before the excavations began. Or maybe they did not have such a computer? There should be at least one such huge scan machine available, say, under international control of e.g. UNESCO or something like that, and if such a finding is done the team goes to the site and scans it before excavations start. This should be extremely important before the last old dinosaur is dug up with excavator and crowbar.

The technology is certainly invented and is probably much in use. In principle, a high-resolution 3-dimensional grid leaves small boxes (nano level) of information that can be registered for their qualities along the known electromagnetic spectrum and the set of data (which can be much data) from each such little box is stored. Probably very large data amounts that will be and the big computer searches for all sorts of redundancies in these data, and these redundancies can be matched against other known forms of redundancies - say, modern cognitive surveillance data and things like that - and the computer can print out how the world was thinking in those days.

Added on 25 october 2025: This should have been scanned before opening, of course:
https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-871515

Added on 2 december 2025: And this perhaps even more:
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/hermetically-sealed-roman-sarcophagus-frozen-time-1700-years-opened-archaeologists