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superficiality problem for the shadow theory
. . . in referece to the wikipedia text,
solar masking, or "shadow theory"
It is a well known fact that the images on the Shroud of Turin are superficial. At any location on the real Shroud where there is a brownish colored image, the image is confined to the outermost two or three fibers of the thread. Look beneath them, inside the thread, and you will find near-white fibers. It is brownish only on the outside.
For example, on the real Shroud of Turin the tip of the nose is brown. That is so because a superficial color has formed there; and it is not at all deep. Chemical analysis tells us that the brown color at the surface is an amorphous caramel-like substance adhering to just a few fibers. On the other hand, the tip of the nose on Wilson's Shadow Shroud is brown because it was not bleached by the sun. We don't need to look beneath the surface of Wilson's image to realize that below the top two or three fibers, the fibers will also be brown; for it is impossible with sunshine to bleach the inside of a thread without bleaching the outside.
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solar masking, or "shadow theory"
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