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Chapter 01. Hollow Planet History In this chapter I examine the history of this idea. It started with Sir Edmund Halley when he studied the motion of the Earth's magnetic field almost three centuries ago. Halley was a brilliant man who played a key role helping Sir Isaac Newton with his Principia. In fact, Halley actually paid all the costs for the publication of the Principia. Halley believed the motion of the Earth's magnetic field could be explained in terms of several hollow shells rotating freely inside the Earth. Later, he advanced the belief that the Earth's aurora was caused by a luminous atmosphere which was leaking out from inside the Earth. It is said that the greatest mathematician of all time, Leonhard Euler, also believed in the idea. Direct evidence for this is difficult to obtain. Even so, the later development of the theory does bear certain hallmarks which might perhaps have come from him. The Scottish physicist Sir John Leslie, was the last major name in science to take the idea seriously. He made some modifications to it, among them, suggesting that two small stars might be orbiting around each other inside the Earth. The great writer, Jules Verne, based his classic tale Journey to the Centre of the Earth on Leslie's ideas. In the 1970's two scientists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences advanced the theory of a Hollow Moon. They pointed to many mysteries of the Moon which might be explained if one assumed the Moon to be hollow. The Apollo 12 seismic experiment has long been used by many to infer that the Moon is indeed hollow. In later years this has been ignored by scientists and glossed over. It was reported in Science News at the time that one scientist said it suggested that the Moon was a "hollow titanium ball". In the 1950's a Russian scientist suggested that the moons of Mars might be hollow. I also advance the idea that Jupiter might be hollow and that the Great Red spot might be a hole in the crust of that planet. This is based on the work of a Russian scientist who believed that certain short period comets were ejected from Jupiter. I believe there may also be evidence that Saturn and Uranus are also hollow but my researches on this will have to wait for a later book. A few of my sources for this chapter:
Additional information: Sir Edmund Halley's theory of Concentric Spheres Sir Edmund Halley was the first person to suggest that the Earth might be hollow. He did so on the basis of his studies of the Earth's magnetic field. This resulted in him proposing that the motion of the Earth's magnetic field was caused by three hollow rotating shells existing inside the Earth. Edmund Halley was convinced he had discovered something great and he even had his portrait painted showing him holding a drawing of the hollow shells which he thought made up the Earth. His theory has since become know as the Concentric Spheres theory. Nicholas Kollerstrom from the University College, London did a detailed study of Halley's ideas. Interestingly enough the problem of the mysterious origin of the Earth's magnetic field is still under scientific debate. Many scientists believe that a Dynamo is driving it. This dynamo is thought to be caused by convection currents in the Earth's core, however there are problems with this theory. In the 1990's a nuclear scientist at the University of California wrote several papers which show that naturally occurring nuclear fission reactions might be taking place at the core of planets. This has tremendous implications. During my study I often toyed with, and examined the idea of nuclear fission reactions occurring inside planets. This new thinking opens up vast possibilities. Could the Great Red Spot on Jupiter for example be caused by a hole in the hollow crust of a planet, a planet which has a powerful nuclear reaction inside it? |
