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November 24, 1990
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THE HOLLOW EARTH: A MADDENING THEORY THAT CAN'T BE DISPROVED
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From OMNI Magazine (October 1983), Games section (p. 128)
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If there were a hall of fame for pseudoscientists, surely Cyrus Teed
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would deserve a place of honor. It was shortly after the Civil War
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that Teed had his vision: The earth is a hollow sphere, and WE LIVE
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INSIDE IT.
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Everything else in the universe is in here with us --planets,
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comets, stars -- everything. What's outside the sphere? Nothing.
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Teed's cosmology had a particular appeal to religious
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fundamentalists. It made the earth important again, rather than an
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insignifigant speck in the cosmos. And it eliminted the difficult
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concepts of infinite space and aimlessly scattered worlds. We're
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all right here together in this safe, spherical womb.
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In 1870 Teed changed his name to Koresh (ancient Hebrew for Cyrus)
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and started a cult. At its peak in the Nineties the Koreshan
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(pronounced ker-ESH-an) Unity movement had some 4,000 followers.
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Teed established a religious/scientific community a few miles south
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of Fort Myers, Florida, and there founded the town of Estero. He
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was determined to prove his theory scientifically and launched his
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own geodetic survey in 1897 to do just that.
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Using his "rectilineator," a set of double-T squares made of large
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logs, he projected a horizontal line until his calculations
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indicated that it would plunge into the Gulf of Mexico, four miles
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from its starting point.
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This was Teed's proof that the earth's surface is concave and that
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his rectilineator line had intersected the earth's upward curve.
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The scientists had gotten everything backward: t is centrifugal
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force, not gravity, that keeps our feet planted on the ground. The
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sphere *is* about 25,000 miles around, just as the scientists say.
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China is about 8,000 miles away, through the earth's center --
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straight up.
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The Nazis entertained many occult theories in their quest for world
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domination, and Teed's was one of them. At one point a Nazi
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expedition went to the Isle of Man.
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Its mission: to get secret photographs of the United States by
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pointing its powerful telescopes *up*.
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What's most infuriating is that a little mathematical fiddling turns
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this crazy theory into a proposition that is virtually impossible to
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refute. The trick is done by *inversion*, a purely geometric
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transformation that lets a methemetician turn shapes inside-out.
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When a sphere is inverted, ever point outside is mapped to a
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corresponding point inside, and vice versa.
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The goemetry is quite simple. If a sphere's center is "C" and its
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radius is "r," then every outside point "P" maps to an inside point
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"P'" such that "CP x CP' = r2" {that's "r squared" - Foxx}.
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{My apologies for not being able to include the accompanying
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illustration. - Foxx}
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Here's a good way to visualize it: For any outside point "P" (on
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the sun, or Pluto, or Cygnus X, for example), draw a circle that has
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"CP" as its diameter. From one of the two points where this circle
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intersects the earth, draw a line perpendicular to "CP."
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The intersection point {of this perpendicular and "CP"} is the
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location of "P'".
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By far the largest body in our inverted Earth is the moon; a bit
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over half a mile in diameter and some 3,933 miles over our heads.
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The sun's sphere is only eight feet across. The stars are
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microscopic spots clustered around the center, which is, of course,
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infinity.
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Is there any way to prove we *aren't* inside a hollow earth? We
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asked H.S.M. Coxeter, mathematics professor at the University of
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Toronto and an expert on inversion geometry.
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"I can't think of any," he said. "A rocket flight, an eclipse, a
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Foucault pendulum, a Coriolis effect -- any observation we can make
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on the outside of the earth has an exact duplicate version inside.
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There would be no way to tell which was the truth."
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Just as the geometry of space inverts, so do all the laws of
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physics. Toward the center of a hollow Earth, light slows down and
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everything shrinks -- atoms, astronauts, spaceships, and measuring
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rods.
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Light travels in circular paths, producing some weird (but lawful)
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optical effects. Astronauts on the moon looked back on what they
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thought was a blue sphere in the distance. Actually it was the
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inside of the earth's shell, through sight lines that flared like
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the bell of a trumpet, producing the *illusion* of a sphere.
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The optical distortion is something like the wide angle view through
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a fisheye lens.
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As we look to the sky and the horizons, our visual field is filled
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with a sphere some 4,000 miles in diameter. Celestial bodies that
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revolve around the earth's center appear to "rise" and "set" as they
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enter or leave that sphere.
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Cyrus Teed said that the moon is an illusion, that gravity is really
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centrifugal force, and that a horizontal line on the earth's surface
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eventually intersects the earth's upward curvature.
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We like to think that if he were alive today he would junk some of
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his earlier predictions to conform to inverse geometry, thereby
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keeping his theory irrefutable.
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The centrifugal-force idea is demonstrably false. If it were so,
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there would be two points on the earth's surface where the force
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disappeared -- along the axis of spin.
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It is gravity of a peculiar kind that pulls us all to the outside.
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Teed's rectilineator experiment must have been in error. A line
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that appears horizontal actually curves in toward the center and so
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gets farther and farther "above" the surface.
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Teed would have embraced Einstein's view of a finite, bounded
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universe in which light travels in circles and eventually returns to
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its starting point.
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An infinitely powered telescope aimed straight up, Einstein said,
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will eventually produce a view of the other side of the earth.
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That idea might seem paradoxical to most of us, but it would have
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been intuitively obvious to Cyrus Teed.
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... the Australian Journal _Speculations in Science and Technology
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has published an article by Mostafa A Abdelkader, of Alexandria,
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Egypt, that considers in all seriousness the proposal that we really
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*are* in a hollow Earth.
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Abdelkader says that the only way to test the theory's validity is
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to drill a tunnel straight through the earth.
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Until such an experiment is performed, he writes, "it seems ... that
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the odds are strongly in favor of [a hollow Earth] being our actual
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universe."
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