2018/03/31 – Barrie M. Schwortz – 40 Years of Shroud Science: a Personal Adventure ….

For the last several hundred years, the mystery of the “Shroud of Turin” has bedazzled countless millions. Is it an actual “sacred relic” — a ~2000-year-old image of Jesus Christ himself … somehow … preserved on a piece linen cloth across the centuries?  Or, is it simply another outright fake — a hand-painted forgery, created by some talented painter in the Middle Ages? My guest tonight, Barrie Schwortz, was the official Documenting Photographer for the first scientific investigation of the Shroud, authorized for the first time by the Vatican in 1978.  Barry was part of an exclusive team of physicists, chemists, radiologists, and even environmentalists, who — using the best state-of-the-art scientific tools of the closing decades of the 20th Century — attempted to answer one simple scientific question: How was the Shroud of Turin actually created? Join us …. Richard C. Hoagland   Show Items Richard’s Items: 1-  Where Will Debris from [...]