Alf Benny 🧢 Nonlin.Org The images below show shroud image-fibers under natural and cross-polarized light. The fibers are colored because the primary cell walls of the fibers is shriveled and corrugated, which was reproduced on modern linen exposed to UV light. researchgate.net/publication/27…

Eric Nonlin.Org right, if you scroll down to the conclusion, they say they found peculiarities but they don't really give a definitive answer. there are many reasons why you would get different results, there could be contamination or other such differences. but they don't say how old it is.

Alf Benny 🧢 Nonlin.Org We've discussed many and I'm not sure which paper you're referring to?

The most recent one was from Giulio Fanti who is a Christian who believes the shroud image was created during Christ's resurrection.

Alf Benny 🧢 Nonlin.Org Regardless, I encourage you to be more concerned with what the data says than the opinions of researchers.

Eric Nonlin.Org you haven't shown any data that says how old the shroud is.

Alf Benny 🧢 Nonlin.Org FTIR, XRay crystallography measuring cellulose chain breaks, mechanical strength, and vanillin content show shroud linen degradation best matches other ~2000yr old linens. These are unconventional dating methods, but still better than C14 dating a corner repaired in middle ages.

Alf Benny 🧢 Nonlin.Org FTIR & Mechanical: matec-conferences.org/articles/matec…

XRay: mdpi.com/2571-9408/2/4/…

Vanillin: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Alf Benny 🧢 Nonlin.Org The shroud's linen threads are heterogeneously bleached. This is consistent w/ a technique used in antiquity where the linen thread was bleached before weaving, but not in the middle ages where the cloth was bleached after being woven.

Eric Nonlin.Org yeah and it might be consistent for someone making a fraud out of it so that it appears to be from that period.

Alf Benny 🧢 Nonlin.Org Given the state of forensic science in the middle ages it wouldn't have taken much more than a stick figure to pull it off.

Yet we have the shroud's forensically accurate wounds and a negative image that's a 3D heightmap, the concept of which neither existed until modern times

Eric Nonlin.Org forensically accurate wounds to what?

also I don't believe there was a 3d heightmap. i think that's the way it's being phrased but that doesn't mean that's what it is and there are citations that say it is easy to create 3d images.

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