Inner world cosmos

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Example of a concave hollow world , the cosmos in the center

The idea of ​​the inner world cosmos , which is also called inner world theory , inner world picture or hollow world theory (ambiguous, see theory of the hollow earth ), is a concept according to which mankind lives on the inside of a hollow earth with a diameter of 12,740 km. The theory did not convince any scientist as early as the 19th century when it emerged.

According to this theory, the planets, the sun and the stars are inside this sphere. The moon is the next celestial body about 3000 km high above the earth's surface with the greatest orbit around the inner world axis of the fixed earth shell, then the sun comes at about 4500 km above the earth's surface.

This worldview was first developed in 1870 by the American Cyrus Reed Teed (1839–1908). In Germany, Karl Neupert was the first to advocate this idea in 1901. In the 1930s the hollow world theory was u. a. presented to the public by Johannes Lang as a “new worldview”. In 1963 the Austrian Johann Dolanski tried to put this interpretation of the cosmos on a scientific foundation.

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The inner world theory is based on the following axioms :

  1. All lengths become shorter the closer something moves to the center of the hollow world.
  2. Only the rays of light that move exactly towards the center are straight, all others are circular and go through the center (so all the light rays are generalized circles through the center).
  3. The speed of light decreases the closer the light moves to the center. As the distances to the center get shorter and shorter, it follows from Axiom 1 that everything slows down the closer you get to the center of the sphere, including light . So the speed of light is not constant. The center itself cannot be reached.

However, the viewer cannot perceive the effects of these axioms within the world. Mathematically, these axioms can be formulated in such a way that they do not contradict the common understanding of physics in any point. In purely mathematical terms, it is an inversion with respect to the earth's surface. However, the formulas for calculating planetary orbits become complicated and not very clear.

Comparable to the geocentric view of the world , the earth has a prominent position in the universe, not only as a center, but as an edge. The inner world theory and the geocentric view of the world therefore forego a simple mathematical representation of physical relationships in favor of a special position of the earth, and thus of humans.

Comparison with common worldview

From a purely mathematical point of view, the theory does not contradict any classical physical theory, as every coordinate system can be converted accordingly. However, some of the principles (symmetries) from which the theory was derived lose their validity due to the inner world theory. The theory thus contradicts Noether's theorem , with which the fundamental conservation laws of physics would no longer apply, or the assumption of Galileo and Newton that the physical laws are the same in all points of space. In the general theory of relativity , however, it is generally not possible to specify a coordinate system that spans the universe , so that a reformulation in the sense of the hollow world theory is impossible. To explain relativistic effects, the above axioms are not sufficient, and further rules would have to be introduced to support the hollow world theory.

Geometrically, the assumption of the hollow world theory raises the new question of what is outside the sphere in which we are located. From the axioms and the scientific research into the “interior of the earth” it follows, however, that the earth extends there towards infinity. If a straight hole were to be drilled outwards, pointing away from the center of the world, the tunnel would continue to expand until it turns inside out at infinity on the other side of the world and approaches the center of the world again until it breaks through the surface of the earth. Only the one infinitely thin ray that points exactly away from the center of the world would disappear into infinity. This would allow an object to be sent through the tunnel, which would then almost completely reach the opposite side of the earth in a finite time, which also corresponds to the usual world theory. With mathematically similar methods, however, one can postulate an infinitely large universe in any spherical object, in any stone and even in any atomic nucleus.

literature

  • Johann Dolanski : The universe as it really is. Dolan theory. 1963. Reissued and commented by M. Marschik. Turia + Kant publishing house, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85132-208-8 .
  • Chr. Lanicca-Forcella: My fight against the Copernican infinity chaos: the new natural worldview of the Aquarian age, its meaning and scope for the future culture. Chr. Lanicca-Forcella, Sarn 1963.
  • Joachim Herrmann : The wrong worldview. Kosmos / Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde / Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1962. Updated paperback edition: Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag Munich, 1973.
  • Johannes Lang : The new world view of the hollow world theory. 5th edition. Bielmannen-Verlag, Munich 1949.
  • Roman Sexl : The hollow world theory . In: Der Mathematische und Naturwissenschaftlichen Studium 36 (1983), 8, pp. 453-460. ISSN 0025-5866
  • Hartmut Fischer, Gerd Schubert (eds.): Hohlwelten - Les Terres Creuses - Hollow Earth . Lehmanns, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3865413505 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SPIEGEL Science - Curious Theory: Inverted World
  2. ↑ Turning the Universe Inside-Out
  3. ↑ The hollow world theory
  4. ↑ Johann Dolanski: The universe as it really is - annotated edition in EVOLVER

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