Hollow Planets: A Feasibility Study of Possible Hollow Worlds - Could the Planets Mercury, Venus and Earth Possibly be Hollow? [Perfect Paperback]

Jan P. Lamprecht (Author), Billy B. Baty (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 17, 1999

The great English astronomer, Sir Edmund Halley first proposed the Earth might be hollow. Later the great mathematician, Leonhard Euler speculated about this, as did the scientist, Sir John Leslie. Jules Verne's classic tale 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' was based on Leslie's ideas. Some religions maintain, to this day, that a vast Underworld exists inside the Earth. This is supported by a rich variety of legends and folklore from all continents. Scientists say all planets are solid. Could science be mistaken? This book is an in-depth review of many papers from science journals of the highest repute. It contains interviews with many top scientists in fields as diverse as seismology and astronomy. The results of this study will send your mind reeling. Do we live in a Solar System composed of Hollow Planets? This may well be the first scholarly & scientific investigation into a factual basis for the hollow planets, which were previously only myths. This 600 page reference book has caught not only the attention of scientists around the world, but media stars such as Jeff Rense of Sighting and Art Bell. Perhaps based on the facts presented in this book, "everything we were ever taught is wrong!"

Editorial Reviews

Review

Jan, I am just returned from our successful solar eclipse expedition, having left Turkey less than one day before the earthquake struck. I found over 400 waiting e-mails, not to mention numerous other deadlines needing attention. One of the items of waiting mail was your book, which I thank you for sending. I glanced at the book, and despite my backlog of urgent matters, cracked it open, thinking it would be easy to establish that it could be shelved for good. From the title alone, I immediately had two objections that demanded answers -- how to reconclie a hollow Earth with seismic data, and how to reconccile it with Earth's gravity field as established by artificial satellites. I soon found that you had dealt with the seismic data issue head-on, and offerred an intriguing alternate explanation. For merely showing us all that the inferred density profile of Earth's interior is not a unique solution of seismic data -- an important constraint for all theoreticians working in that area -- the book had already made itself worthwhile. [snip] That summarizes my quick first impressions. I hope to look at some of your other chapters after I regain control of my schedule by catching up on deadlines. Best wishes. -|Tom|- --Dr Tom Van Flandern (astronomer, formerly U.S. Naval Observatory)

Dear Jan Your book has just arrived. A very impressive piece of work. Stimulating and exciting. Of course one may not agree with all it says. But the fact remains you completed what you set out to do and that deserves applause. That you chose a controversial subject is further cause for congratulation. That takes courage. Plainly I have not had chance to read through it. But I shall do and will be in touch. Meanwhile my sincere thanks and congratulations, Best regards Richard Richard wrote again some time later once he had had a chance to do some reading and he seems to be liking it:- --Richard Baum (Director Mercury & Venus Sections,

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 596 pages
• Publisher: Jan Lamprecht & TGS Publishing; 1st edition (July 17, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0620219637
• ISBN-13: 978-0620219631
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,070,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Researching the unknown and the hidden. . ., November 30, 1999

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Laurie J. Brenner "Award Winning Author of Ch... (Western Slope of The Sierra, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hollow Planets: A Feasibility Study of Possible Hollow Worlds - Could the Planets Mercury, Venus and Earth Possibly be Hollow? (Perfect Paperback)

As a writer myself enthralled with the idea of Jule Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, when I happened upon Jan Lamprecht's website on the purely scientific idea of a hollow earth some years back I felt I'd died and gone to heaven. Here was at last interest in proof. Being one of the first of many to read his book, I have to admit, it is well reasoned, well put together, well said, well done! Jan provides you with the data, conflicting and otherwise and let's you decide, he does not do that for you. Logic speaks loud and clear. Science paints the picture. You read it and you decide. Interesting book, logical premise, nothing but the facts!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most informative and fact filled books I've read, October 3, 1999

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This review is from: Hollow Planets: A Feasibility Study of Possible Hollow Worlds - Could the Planets Mercury, Venus and Earth Possibly be Hollow? (Perfect Paperback)

This book introduces the subject of "Hollow Planets" in a way never done before. The author's approach is an all encompassing and multi-faceted one.
From questioning if Cavendish was correct in his assumptions and if Newton's gravity theories are in fact accurate, through anomalies found in currently accepted theories about siesmology, astronomy, gravity, weather and more to tying up information reported by arctic explorers such as Peary, Cook and others.
This is the most comprehensive sceintific study done in this field todate.
Of note is the Author's Seismic model, which will be of great interest to those scientists who's speciality is the study of the Earth and other planetry structures.
Written so that the person in the street as well as the person in the lab can both enjoy it. Having once read this your thinking will be changed forever.
Worth every minute spent digesting it's contents, the book "Hollow Planets", will find a place on my book shelf for sure.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is far better than one would expect from the title, October 3, 1999

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Fernando (Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hollow Planets: A Feasibility Study of Possible Hollow Worlds - Could the Planets Mercury, Venus and Earth Possibly be Hollow? (Perfect Paperback)

It's a physically argumentation book! I mean, one would expect this to be a kind of esoteric or legendary stuff, but besides there is the history of the concept and the authors since some centuries, it is an academic based argumentative book on the real possibility of our planets being spheric shells, inhabitable inside. The point is there is an eminent revolution in our gravitational concepts (from several authors) and the seismic model of an hollow earth CAN be explained as the author of the book states it. I have seen that old "Hollow Earth" Raymond Bernard book, so were familiar with the idea, but this book has nothing to do with the first one. No UFO, no strange speculations, the HUGE bibliography in the book point to known academic professional and science publications. One gets the feeling it actually is quite defensible! I have to call my friends to this one. Top recommended indeed.