Is the Hollow Earth Theory True ? Are There Beings Living There ?
The idea that the earth is hollow inside has been the subject of mythical legends and folklore since ancient times. With overwhelming scientific evidence and an understanding of how planets form in the galaxy, the concept has been dismissed in the late 18th century. It remains an elegant subject for science and adventure fiction stories in pop culture as well as in conspiracy theories.
In modern times, the notion of a hollow earth found its way into the consciousness of Adolf Hitler with reported myths about an entrance into the earth from Tibet and the Antarctica and was said to have authorized an expedition to look into it.
After the war, a senior officer the US Navy, Rear Admiral Richard Byrd undertook several Antarctic expeditions ending abruptly in February 1947 or just 2 months into the expedition that had mobilized more than 4000 men in an armada of 13 support ships, 6 helicopters and 15 other aircraft to explore the Antarctic regions.
No official reason for the termination except that when interviewed by the International News Services, the Admiral warned against possible attack from the polar regions. “We are abandoning the region after making important geographical discoveries.” This was the stuff that fueled conspiracy theories. It included the possibility that the Nazis had a base in the Antarctica or that an opening to the center of the earth with inhabitants had been found who could be hostile to the surface population.
It doesn’t help that a lost secret diary form the admiral contained more controversial details about a hollow earth. But whatever it was, a hollow earth theory simply flies in the face of scientific evidence.
One of the more telling arguments that the earth could not be hollow is due to gravity. Matter tends to clump together under the force of gravity that would render a non-hollow spherical planets and stars. Only a solid sphere could minimize the gravitational potential energy of an object and ordinary matter can never be strong enough to support a hollow planet with the observed thickness of the earth’s crust or achieve hydrostatic equilibrium on its own and would therefore collapse under its own mass.
Any person inside a hollow earth would not experience gravity as demonstrated by Newton from his shell theorem which mathematically calculates a g-force of zero anywhere inside a spherically hollow shell. In addition the centrifugal force resulting from the earth’s rotation pulls a person outwards towards the earth’s crust.
The computed mass of the earth points to the impossibility of the hollow earth theory as a hollow earth would render a lower mass and its resulting gravitational field much lower that it is.
The observed seismic behavior of the earth established its structure consisting of an outer crust, a mantle, an outer core and an inner core. The observed behaviour would be entirely different if the earth were hollow.
The deepest excavation drilled into the earth is 12.3 km at the Soviet Kola Superdeep Borehole project that gave visual evidence of the earth’s internal structure to date.