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Nothing in the Shroud's later history has been more significant than Secondo
Pia's amazing discovery of its negative image properties in 1898. This shocked
people. This launched more than a century of scientific endeavors to try and
understand how the image was formed. To many people, it was intuitively obvious
that no forger, no faker of relics, no artist would or even could paint a
negative image. While developing his
photographs, he
discovered that images that appeared on the glass plate negatives were positive
images, startling
in clarity and realistic appearance. For the first time people could see the
amazing detail in the Shroud’s
images. It is not that the detail wasn’t there on the Shroud.
It was. But our minds are not
well adapted to interpreting negative images. What for
centuries had appeared only as
ghostlike images now appeared to be graphically
remarkable front and back pictures of the man
on the Shroud
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The
scientific study of the Turin shroud is like a microcosm of the
scientific search for God: it does more to inflame any debate than
settle it.”
It is
simply not known how the ghostly image of a serene, bearded man was
made.”
Scientist-Journalist Philip Ball Nature, that most prestigious of scientific journals, that once had bragging rights to claim that the Shroud was fake, responding to new, peer-reviewed studies that discredit the carbon 14 dating and show that the Shroud could be authentic. WHAT WE KNOW IN 2005
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