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THE HOLLOW EARTH: A MADDENING THEORY THAT CAN'T BE DISPROVED
From <ent type='ORG'>OMNI Magazine</ent> (October 1983), Games section (p. 128)</p>
<p> If there were a hall of fame for <ent type='ORG'>pseudoscientists</ent>, surely <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Cyrus</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent></ent>
<p> If there were a hall of fame for pseudoscientists, surely <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Cyrus</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent></ent>
would deserve a place of honor. It was shortly after <ent type='EVENT'>the Civil War</ent> that
<ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent> 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.
<ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent>'s cosmology had a particular appeal to religious
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 <ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent> changed his name to <ent type='GPE'>Koresh</ent> (ancient Hebrew for <ent type='PERSON'>Cyrus</ent>)
and started a cult. At its peak in the Nineties the <ent type='GPE'>Koresh</ent>an
In 1870 <ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent> changed his name to <ent type='PERSON'>Koresh</ent> (ancient Hebrew for <ent type='PERSON'>Cyrus</ent>)
and started a cult. At its peak in the Nineties the <ent type='PERSON'>Koresh</ent>an
(pronounced ker-ESH-an) <ent type='ORG'>Unity</ent> movement had some 4000 followers. <ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent>
established a religious/scientific community a few miles south of Fort
Myers, <ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent>, and there founded the town of <ent type='GPE'>Estero</ent>. He was determined
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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 <ent type='LOC'>the Gulf</ent> of Mexico,
four miles from its starting point. This was <ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent>'s proof that the
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
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<ent type='GPE'>China</ent> is about 8000 miles away, through the earth's center -- straight
up.
The <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent> entertained many occult theories in their quest for world
domination, and <ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent>'s was one of them. At one point a <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> expedition
domination, and Teed's was one of them. At one point a <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> expedition
went to the Isle of Man. Its mission: to get secret photographs of the
United States by pointing its powerful telescopes *up*.
...
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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" - <ent type='PERSON'>Foxx</ent>}.
such that "CP x CP' = r2" {that's "r squared" - Foxx}.
{My apologies for not being able to include the accompanying
illustration. - <ent type='PERSON'>Foxx</ent>}
illustration. - 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
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physics. Toward the center of a hollow <ent type='LOC'>Earth</ent>, light slows down and
everything shrinks -- atoms, astronauts, spaceships, and measuring rods.
Light travels in circular paths, producing some weird (but lawful)
optical effects. <ent type='ORG'>Astronauts</ent> on the moon looked back on what they
optical effects. <ent type='NORP'>Astronauts</ent> 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, throught sight lines that flared like the bell of
a trumpet, producing the *illusion* of a sphere. The optical distortion
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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. <ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent>'s rectilineator experiment must
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.
<ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent> would have embraced <ent type='PERSON'>Einstein</ent>'s view of a finite, bounded
<ent type='ORG'>Teed</ent> 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,
<ent type='PERSON'>Einstein</ent> said, will eventually produce a view of the other side of the