Why an Atheist Thinks the Shroud of Turin is the Real Deal

Wild Speculation

This is speculation. Yet it resonates with the collimated appearance of the images and the topographical spatial information that can be plotted as three-dimensional images. It is also consistent with something that forensic experts tell us. The body images show no visible signs of decomposition and the linen fabric is not damaged by any bodily decomposition products. It is also consistent with a baffling observation about the bloodstains. Dried blood, in acting like weak glue between body and cloth, should have cracked and broken apart if the body was unwrapped by convention physical means. Small fibers of blood-soaked linen should have pulled apart. Yet this isnot observed in the bloodstains.

A highly imaginative suggestion of how mechanical transparency might work is that somehow, no method known to science, the strong nuclear force that holds together the subatomic particles of the nucleus was turned off while electromagnetism and gravity remained in effect. When that happened the images were impressed on the cloth as it passed through the body, perhaps by the impact of elementary particles let loose in the process.