Soz .. for my lack of follow up ... been very eventful last few days and I've not had chance ....
I've read the legends ... formulated my own ideas ... but scoured the internet for sites etc
Apparently, It was Sir Edmund Halley's (Halley's Comet fame ... I think) ideas which lead to the concept of gigantic Polar Holes. Then after time much of Hollow Earth theory was to revolve around this single idea. Polar Holes were seen as the single definitive proof that the planet may or may not be hollow.
There have been rumours for thousands of years that there is something going on deep inside the Earth. The great Plato wrote of a God who lives inside the Earth who is responsible for our religions; the Hindus have extensive scriptures which describe a subteranean world, while the Tibetans believe that the First Dalai Lama of Tibet received his instructions from the ruler of an Underground Empire who at times would even come out from the Earth and visit the Tibetan monasteries. In more recent times, there have been rumours of some NAZI's escaping into the Earth, and of Admiral Byrd flying into the Earth.
There is also a strange tale from the early 1900's told by a fisherman, Olaf Jansen, who claimed he and his father had sailed into an interior world via a Polar Hole which led into the centre of the Earth.
In the 1960's a number of UFO enthusiasts set about trying to show that UFOs came out from inside a Hollow Earth. They even published NASA photos which they said showed the existence of a giant hole at the North Pole. These are all very strange tales and most of them are based on the thinnest of evidence and often originate from mysterious and unreliable sources.
Can the Earth be hollow and somehow we don't know about it?
So much has been written about it ... so much of it likely to be garbage!
Look at
Hollow Earth which will show a gif animation of a huge hole at the north pole ....
I am intrigued by the whole thing ... I read a rare book about Agharti many years ago ... can't remember title or I would put it here .... I've tried to piece together my own theories ... but intriguing things like land sighted beyond the north pole ... fresh water .... trees and similar debris ... a pilot who was going to publish his findings after a flight over the north pole into a temperate land but mysteriously crashed together with his manuscript ... etc etc ... convince me ...
The very spin of the planet will create a centrifugal force will throw all matter to the outside ....when a planet is its molten form, spinning into existence before it is cooled, how can it remain solid to the core?
I will post more on this subject when I'm not quite as tired ....!!!! (IMG:
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This post has been edited by Mr_Merlin: May 12 2005, 03:52 AM