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Hollow Earth
Disproven hypothesis
This article is about the concept. For other uses, see Hollow Earth (disambiguation).
The Hollow Earth is an obsolete concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space.
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Notably suggested by Edmond Halley in the late 17th century, the notion was disproven, first tentatively by Pierre Bouguer in , then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experiment around
It was still occasionally defended through the midth century, notably by John Cleves Symmes Jr.
and J. N. Reynolds, but by this time it was part of popular pseudoscience and no longer a scientifically viable hypothesis.
The concept of a hollow Earth still recurs in folklore and as a premise for subterranean fiction, a subgenre of adventure fiction.
Hollow Earth also recurs in conspiracy theories such as the underground kingdom of Agartha and the Cryptoterrestrial hypothesis and is often said to be inhabited by mythological