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