Shroud of Turin: The Gap

[Presence]

I’ve been interested in the science of the Shroud of Turin for as long as I can remember and have always been convinced it was authentic. But I was sitting on my haunches and thinking about it last week and I was wondering why the image did not connect at the head. If the image truly is a negative based on light or radiation emanating from Jesus’ body then why is there a gap on the top of the head from the “front” and “back” image, shouldn’t they be connected? Apparently I’m not the first to consider this issue, but I haven’t read a convincing explanation as to why? Anyone have any (name removed by moderator)ut into this thought?

 

[GEddie]

1. It’s not really a gap; there is a circle corresponding to the circumference of his head. This is roughly where blood from the crown of thorns would be.
2. Places where the cloth did not press against the skin seem not to show, i.e. the throat. This would be true at the top of the head.

ICXC NIKA

 

[jeffrey_erwin]

**The Holy Shroud has many mysterious features:

1. Its history prior to 1357 is hidden. The family who put it on display in Lirey offered no explanations as to where it had been or how they had acquired it.
2. The blood stains are pink and too well defined. Blood stains on any cloth soon turn to a black color.
3. As you noted, the Shroud has no side images of the corpse, even though It must have been draped over the body’s sides.
4. A piece of linen cloth taken from a corner of the Shroud was carbon dated by three laboratories to be about 700 years old. Several “invalid sample” hypotheses have been offered, and all of them have been disproven.

For item one, the Shroud’s history, we turn to Professor Ian Wilson’s excellent book: THE SHROUD (THE 2000-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY SOLVED) which explains how this sacred burial sheet was taken to the ancient city of Edessa by the disciple Thaddeus and from there to Constantinople in 944.
In ancient times a bloody burial cloth was regarded as spiritually polluted, so only the facial image on the Shroud was shown, and that only rarely.
However icons painted from the observation of that facial image abound. Google “Holy Mandylion” to see the multitude.

For the only viable explanation of issues two, three, and four I recommend Mark Antonacci’s latest work: TEST THE SHROUD, 2015.
Here you will find a detailed explanation of the Historically Consistent Hypothesis which states that when Jesus’ body disappeared from inside of the Shroud, it vanished into an alternate dimension,
and a very small percentage of that body, instead of vanishing, dissolved elemental particles: protons and neutrons.
The thermal proton radiation created the image that we see on the Shroud.
The thermal neutron radiation had a preservative effect on the linen and also caused some of the nitrogen in the linen to be converted in to carbon-14.
That extra carbon-14 is what has caused the linen sample taken from the Shroud in 1988 to date to the 1300s. **

testtheshroudonline.com/

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

1. It’s not really a gap; there is a circle corresponding to the circumference of his head. This is roughly where blood from the crown of thorns would be.
2. Places where the cloth did not press against the skin seem not to show, i.e. the throat. This would be true at the top of the head.

ICXC NIKA

Thanks!