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This hypothesis was first conceptualised in the Cellular Cosmogony of Cyrus R Teed, founder of the Koreshan Religion/Society established in 1886. He
stated that the Earth is concave (curving upward), thus we are on the inside of a hollow Sphere. All of the stars and planets are illusions due to
refraction of curving light in the atmosphere, of which itself is illusory in the general appearance of its shape. Only one half of the sun radiates
light, it rotates on an axis at the centre of the hollow cell, and we only ever see a focalised projection of it through multiple layers of the
atmosphere.
In 1981 Mostafa Abdelkader an Egyptian mathematician from Alexandria, revived and expanded upon Karl E Neupert's Geocosmos version of Cyrus' Ideas,
from the year 1900. Unlike Cyrus' model which considers the heavenly bodies entirely as optical illusions, Neupert's model inverts the entire known
cosmos into the concave model, stating that space shrinks / implodes via non-euclidean geometry, so as to fit an entire Copernican cosmos (C) into the
comparatively finite boundary-envelope of the Geocosmos' (G) concave surface. In his paper that he submitted to the Australian science journal;
Speculations in Science and Technology, in 1981 (which then gave a serious peer review of his full hypothesis in its 6th volume edition published in
1983), Abdelkader says:
“The enormous galaxies and other remote objects are mapped inside as microscopic objects, and our moon as by far the largest of the celestial
objects, all of which revolve daily around the earth's axis. Straight rays of light are mapped as arcs of circles, so that all celestial phenomena
appear to inside observers in G just as they do to outside observers in C. We next consider the hypothesis that, conversely, our actual universe is
this finite G." (This idea entails the inversion of all known geo/astro physics.)
Abdelkader devised an equation that suggests the phenomena belonging to the perception of the sky-dome and horizon line, are subject to optical
illusion, supporting his statement that Light bends in wide arcs through space, rather than travelling in straight paths. As such when we believe we
are looking at a luminous astrological object perpendicular to our line of sight, what we are seeing actually lies on the other end of a bent ray of
light. Thus ones line of sight is really pointing at nothing, and their eyes are receiving an image of something that is at a position in the sky
elsewhere to the direction they are truly looking.
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you'll notice this line of thinking doesn't eliminate the current cosmology...it incorporates it.... is it really stupid? or is it genius
In the October 1983 issue, Omni Magazine inquired with H.S.M. Coxter, a maths professor of the University of Toronto , as to whether or not there was
any way to prove we aren't living inside a hollow earth. Coxter responded saying he couldn't think of any, and being an expert on inversion geometry
went on to say:
“A rocket flight, an eclipse, a Foucault pendulum a Coriolis effect – any observation we can make on the outside of the earth has an exact
duplicate version inside. There would be no way to tell which was the truth."
The article continued to relay: “Just as the geometry of space inverts, so do all the laws of physics. Toward the centre of a hollow Earth, light
slows down and everything shrinks -- atoms, astronauts, spaceships, and measuring rods. Light travels in circular paths, producing some weird (but
lawful) optical effects. Astronauts on the moon looked back on what they thought was a blue sphere in the distance. Actually it was the inside of the
earth's shell, seen through sight lines that flared like the bell of a trumpet, producing the illusion of a sphere. The optical distortion is
something like the wide angle view through a fish-eye lens”.
The German NASA astronaut & physicist - Werner Von Braun, speaks of this convex spherical illusion of our planet in the (inner) outer space of the
concave Earth in one of his papers regarding optical illusions in space. He explains the process by which a “photograph of the Earth ball”
("Convex Earth") occurs, a potentially illusory perception of which our arbitrary physical senses have lead us to believe.