Hollow Earth
Well, the past week was kinda hectic for me. Let's see, first I attended FOSS.in, visited a coupla places in TN, watched quite a bit of movies & finally started on 2 books; a Virginia Woolf novel & a Physics book. This one's really good....I mean really. Anyway, I'm at a loss for words today. Hopefully, I'll be writing a lot about this book later. Let's kickstart with the Hollow Earth Theory. An excerpt from the book -
"Space and straightness pose subtle challenges. Some strange people maintain that all humans
live on the inside of a sphere; they (usually) call this the hollow Earth theory. They claim that the Moon, the Sun and the stars are all near the centre of the hollow sphere. They also explain that light follows curved paths in the sky and that when usual physicists talk about a distance r from the centre of the Earth, the real hollow Earth distance is: R_hollow_earth = Square(R_real_earth)/r."
Wikipedia Entry.
"Space and straightness pose subtle challenges. Some strange people maintain that all humans
live on the inside of a sphere; they (usually) call this the hollow Earth theory. They claim that the Moon, the Sun and the stars are all near the centre of the hollow sphere. They also explain that light follows curved paths in the sky and that when usual physicists talk about a distance r from the centre of the Earth, the real hollow Earth distance is: R_hollow_earth = Square(R_real_earth)/r."
Wikipedia Entry.
