How we know what lies at Earth's core

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150814-what-is-at-the-centre-of-earth

by otoolep • 11 years ago

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nogridbag4• 11 years ago

I should show this to my coworker who appears to believe in the "Hollow Earth" theory [1] which states that essentially the Earth is hollow and there're continents and humans frolicking about.

Ah, but according to him... while it's our Earth that is hollow, it's not the Earth in this "space-time". In a different "space-time", the Earth is hollow.

If you're curious, he believes in Falun Gong, of which I've read the first few pages of essentially their "bible" written in 1993 [2]. The first few pages basically says something like... in our past lives we were god-like but we've done bad things so we were demoted to a lower plane, and we kept doing bad things until we've been demoted to the lowest plane: Humans living on Earth. If you become one with Dafa, you can become divine. Two weeks prior, I had read the first ten chapters of the bible (Genesis) and I thought THAT was truly bizarre. But this is on a whole new level! :)

My coworker believes this with all of his heart - I spotted him yelling at the clouds asking for rain so his plants could grow and when it rained 10 seconds later he smiled at me. I'm 90% sure he believes he has the ability to control the weather. <insert "mind blown" gif here>

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth

[2] http://en.falundafa.org/eng/flg_2006.htm

subir• 11 years ago

Can I have some of the stuff he is smoking? I doubt if this article will help your cause. Given his outlandish beliefs, I doubt whether this co-worker of yours is open to any scientific reasoning.

da_n• 11 years ago

Science? Pfft. They just want to keep you locked-up inside your little box. The elite know all about the hollow-earth, there are aliens that live under our earths core, they have a small ball of magnetar they have transported there which powers their civilisation and enables the so called 'gravity' effect on the surface. The aliens experiment on us all the time, even leaving messages to taunt us (crop circles etc). If you believe you will know the truth.

nogridbag4• 11 years ago

If you think his beliefs are illogical, just wait until you see his code!

I'm not very knowledgable about his religion, but I think he also shares some of his beliefs with fundamentalist Christianity. He was quite upset about the supreme court ruling on gay marriage and yelled to me "God hates gays!". I simply nodded my head as I wasn't sure how else to respond without offending his beliefs.

As one of the only non-believers in the office, I have to tread lightly. When a different coworker, who is strongly Christian, expressed his doubts about what happens when we die, his faith was restored by others because heaven "sounded good" (because we should totally choose our beliefs based on what sounds good). I personally wanted to advise him to convert to Islam because to me personally having 27 virgins in heaven "sounds better" to me! But I simply keep my mouth shut as anything I say will surely offend someone.

cfontes2• 11 years ago

If you enjoy this kind of reading as I do (holy books of different religions), try reading the Book of Mormon, I bet you will find it on par with the Falun Gong's one.

On a side note some book about the science behind Homeopathy would be incredibly fun to read as well.

nogridbag4• 11 years ago

Honestly, while I'm sure I will find it amusing and I do find this stuff fascinating, I'm truly afraid of some of this stuff being converted to long term memory and having something more important being discarded :)

That's why I stopped reading the bible after the first 10 chapters or so and why I only lasted a few pages with the Falun Gong book. I have to stop there because I do not want to derail this thread further and because several "Hollow Earth" believers are downvoting my original post :)

imh• 11 years ago

I'd love more stories like this. It's weird to think about some of the big gaps in knowledge I take for granted. There's plenty we learned through school about the world around us, but a surprisingly small amount of that came with "and this is how we know."

Which is really really important in sorting out information from misinformation now that I think about it.

How we know what lies at Earth's core

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