/me snorts
I really can't believe people are taking this seriously.
Firstly, the man isn't a scientist, he's a
comic book illustrator.
Secondly, we can measure the contents of the earth by measuring the rates at which different waves travel through it - it is *not* hollow. Google for S and P waves.
The earth has a solid ferrous iron core - for evidence, see maps made of the electromagnetic field generated, as well as (eg) field patterns in stones.
Earth's magnetic field.
What isn't solid iron is either molten iron, molten rock or solid rock - all of it under high pressure. A smaller Earth would not be able to containt it all.
If the Earth was smaller in the past, in order to conserve angular momentum it would have had to spin much faster - the length of a day/year would have changed substantially - again there is no evidence for this.
If the Earth was hollow, how do we have a level of gravitational attraction that corresponds precisely to Newton's laws of gravitation? (which are modelled on a solid mass)
In response to his .pdf:
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GRAVITY is the "electromagnetic attraction from the positron" inside protons (of atmos). That is...it is the positive attractive force that reaches out from inside protons through its electrons that MAKES GRAVITY.
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Hogwash!!! We don't know how gravity is produced - the
graviton is the most likely, but theoretical, particle.
It certainly has bugger all to do with the inside of atoms - gravity is in fact the weakest (by a long long way) of the four fundamental forces - the strong & weak nuclear forces are the ones that dominate inside the nucleus - gravity is
miniscule in comparison.
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And it [gravity] gets less as you go down into a gravitational body.
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Yes it does, but it's no secret, and certainly no justification for his theories. The closer you get to the centre of the Earth, the less mass exists between you and the core and thus gravity will be less. It does not mean that the Earth's core is hollow or filled with this plasma he talks about.
Really guys - this is tripe. His basic science is flawed.
The scientific establishment is giving him short shrift for a very good reason here. Here's a wikipedia link on
Hollow Earth Theory.
Don't be taken in by fancy videos! It's this guys job to be good at moving audiences with visual aids.
Edit: Fixed a link.
[ 03-17-2006, 06:05 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]