....THE TAMAM SHUD SLIP...
The high-resolution image above is one of a series taken by Adelaide University about 11 years ago. The torn piece itself was in the possession of Gerry Feltus who agreed to give Professor Abbott access to the slip for microscopic examination.
Whilst the set was interesting, you'll see them make their appearance within this post, it is the oblique angled photographs taken of the slip itself that was astonishing.
This next image is one of a number of oblique angled images that have been taken of each letter of the two words TAMAM SHUD:
Starting from the middle upright in the letter M:
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The last upright in the letter M:
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The highlighted stroke in the letter A:
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There are other characters present in the second M in TAMAM and they will be revealed in a later post.
The point is this, whilst various commenters have put forward their views on the torn slip, none of them made reference to the fact that high-resolution images had been taken of it by Adelaide University and amongst them are extreme close-up images of the torn slip.
To my knowledge, the University did not take any oblique angled images of the letters. Had they done that, they would have seen the results shown above plus more.
To be frank and without meaning to be rude to those commenters, they need to do a lot more investigation than they currently have done. The Somerton Man case is not to be treated like a subject of gossip nor should it be viewed as a contender for a soap opera.
This blog has focus clearly on the evidence and provided substantiation for each of the claims made and that is precisely why the Tamam Shud blog continues to lead in the Somerton Man space.
By way of further substantiation of the production of high-resolution images of the torn slip, here are more examples:
An interesting image above...
Something odd about the scale indicator on the first image?
ReplyDeleteSurely the width of the "T" is greater than the approximate 2mm it suggests?
That would practically make the Tamam Shud script itself into micro-writing.
That's correct I believe. Microcode can be written between .25 and .5 mm.
DeleteI have the close ups of the T and will post later today.
20mm I could accept. But I find it hard to believe anyone would print a book in which bold text is printed at a 2mm character width. That would be unreadable and is entirely inconsistent with the images of the book that we are shown in other photos,which - if anything - show quite large print.
ReplyDeleteSomething is not right here.
It is interesting, so will dig a little deeper, here's a link that shows a full copy of the same book:
ReplyDeletehttps://tamamshud.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-somerton-man-rubaiyat-some-answers.html
Whether that 2 mm indicator has something to do with the settings on microscope used to take the image?
For the record, the threshold for human vision is meant to be .1 mm for someone with good eyesight.