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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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Chapter 14 -- Hollow Earth Geophysics<br />

Using a “rectilliniator,” the believers spent five months<br />

in 1897 moving the device along four miles <strong>of</strong> beach to<br />

prove the earth’s concavity. The results were said to<br />

be as Teed predicted.<br />

At the right is the opinion the Chicago Daily Tribune,<br />

March 31, 1895.<br />

While Teed draws upon Symmes for hollow earth inspiration, there's a significant difference in<br />

perspective.<br />

According to Symmes, we're not within the hollow earth and thus can only speculate on the<br />

nature <strong>of</strong> that realm. Symmes proposed an American expedition <strong>of</strong> discovery.<br />

According to Teed, we're already living in the hollow earth and need to explain what we<br />

observe about us.<br />

Teed's "illumination" provided an explanation. Centrifugal force -- the inertial force that pushes<br />

objects outward from the center <strong>of</strong> a spinning circle -- accounts for what the unenlightened --<br />

<strong>New</strong>ton and his crew -- mistakenly attribute to gravity.<br />

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