In 2007, a man planned to take a trip to the North Pole to find the “gateway” to the center of the Earth to prove his own version of the “Hollow Earth” theory, which was originally debunked in 1774. The author of Hollow Earth was going to go to the North Pole to find the secret entrance using an ice-breaking ship in 2007, but this project was later cancelled.
Throughout the development of science, many different theories have been proposed about our planet and universe. Astronomer Edmond Halley claimed in an article in 1692 that the Earth was hollow. When Halley studied the Earth’s magnetic field, he noticed that it was volatile. He believed this was because the Earth was hollow inside and magnetic fields were created by three inner “shells” inside the Earth, each with its own magnetic poles.
The “hollow of the world” theory
Halley defended his theory, rejecting the objections of critics of the theory, including that outer shells could rupture and gravitationally descend into the inner circle, opening the earth to “mole people” below. Halley believed that the shells were “covered with magnetic material, or rather would be a large concave magnet,” and therefore the shell was held in the air thanks to the magnetic field being a stronger force than gravity.
Sticking to this theory, Halley argued that there could be life “inside the Earth”, arguing that otherwise would be meaningless: “Since Earth is now considered to be one of the planets and all are reasonably assumed to be habitable… Let’s find it strange that it should exist? Why not think of it as being arranged by the supreme power to give living things such a large surface that it can consist of the comfort and safety of the whole,” he said, “we ourselves, in cities where we are forced to locate, often build many floors one above the other and thus house a much larger number of inhabitants.” added.
Kingdom of Agartha, Nazis in hiding…
Halley and later proponents of the Hollow Earth theory were wrong. Halley’s data were incomplete and some were missing. Had he had better data on the Earth’s magnetic field, he might not have felt compelled to turn the Earth into a hollow mass to explain his data.
Many different Hollow World theories have been proposed over time, and although there is no proof, some of them had interesting ideas, such as suggesting that there was an underground kingdom called Agartha, or that there were Nazis in hiding, waiting for the right time to come. Some versions say that we live inside the planet and the stars we see are on the other side of the crust.
Of course, all of these suggestions were refuted. We now have a pretty good idea of what’s going on inside our planet; With the exception of two strange masses, of which we have not been able to decipher exactly what it is.
The first experiment to prove that the Earth is not hollow took place in 1774, when scientists used a mountain in Scotland to calculate the Earth’s density. The team showed that the sheer mass of Mount Schiehallion pulls the pendulums towards it. Using this and examining the mountain, they were able to calculate a rough density of the Earth.
Since the mountain experiment, we’ve found much more sophisticated ways to look inside our planet using earthquakes in a technique known as seismic tomography. When earthquakes occur, energy waves radiate in all directions. By measuring tremors from various locations on the surface, scientists can create a map of the Earth’s interior. Because Earth’s rocks and fluids are of different densities, waves travel through them at different speeds, allowing geologists to understand what kind of material the waves are traveling through. Some wonderful and unusual features were found using this method, but no hollow areas or mysterious underground kingdoms.
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