Comments on: Writing The Hollow Earth

By: ambie

ambie — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:51:13 +0000

I read this article long time ago, it dawned to me that this science breakthrough will support the hollow earth theory! amazingly i never read or hear about this discovery. If pursued this will tremendously buttressed the HE!

Helpful H-Bomb
Monday, Feb. 22, 1993
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IN THEIR QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE, SCIENTISTS WILL take advantage of anything that’s helpful, even a nuclear blast. Studies of the shock waves given off by a Chinese .66-megaton nuclear test have revealed a “continent” 2,000 miles underground, at the boundary between the molten iron of the planet’s core and the molten rock just above it. The word continent is used loosely; what two scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey found was a region 200 miles across and 80 miles deep that is denser than surrounding regions. The implication: the core-mantle boundary may be as complex as the earth’s surface.

When the Bomb sent shock waves through the earth, ripples were detected at North American seismic centers. Because a wave’s speed depends on the composition of what it’s moving through, the timing of detections helped scientists compare densities of subterranean regions. This type of research may uncover other structures inside the earth, but — fortunately — H-bombs don’t go off every day.

By: Tarek.Rafea

Tarek.Rafea — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:08:53 +0000

it’s the most important topic that the whole world should be searching for.
for me,I’m searching for the truth, BUT the truth is overlooked and no one actually would answer my questions but the one who is not afraid of telling the truth….
I hope to find that person soon.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:21:51 +0000

I love the photo of Arf with the kids. He looks exactly how I pictured him.

By: Russ Van Rooy

Russ Van Rooy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:02:05 +0000

As an unrepentant math/physics/ and coolness groupie, I have long followed your blog, Rudy as well as read a number of your books. I also follow several other math/physics related blogs and the other day I saw that Professor John Baez, who runs the n-Category Cafe, used the word ‘Gnarly’ to describe certain problems in physics. I know you’ve used this word for quite some time and I wonder about the history of this word, and what propriety you may have in it as a descriptor of mathematics/physics related subjects? Professor Baez’s wiki where he mentions ‘gnarly’ is here: http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Light+Mills and the n-Category Cafe is here: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/ . I might add, it’s stuff way way beyond my understanding but it still rates high on my coolness index. Keep on keepin’ on!

By: Kelson

Kelson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:23:08 +0000

You’ve got such a cool family line…all these Rucker’s, making the world a gnarlier place!

By: Chris King

Chris King — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:57:36 +0000

I liked the shrig that went boom.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:10:43 +0000

Alex, the new MonkeyBrain edition of THE HOLLOW EARTH differs from the 1st edition in two respects: (1) I read through the book and edited it a little, fixing some minor logical errors, smoothing the flow, and dialing down the dialect. (2) I added a short afterword, but still in character as this guy who’d found a 19th C manuscript. Oh, and it has a much nicer cover. Word count should be about the same.

Kehrtraud, I’m glad to year you read so many books of mine! There are a few 4D stories in my collection GNARL!, if that topic is of special interest to you. Set off a knaller on Sylvester for me.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:07:55 +0000

Does the MonkeyBrain Books edition have extra text compared to the 1st Editon?
I notice the new edition has 400 pages and the William Morrow & Co; 1st edition which I have only has 308 pages. Did you add something or is it just the page or font size that is different?

By: Kehrtraud

Kehrtraud — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:02:43 +0000

Hi rudy1
As I read 6 Rudy-Rucker-books in the last 4 weeks, post-Singular downloaded but not yet read, I think I’ll put the title on my Christmas-list.
I had to prepare a lesson on 4 dimensions. It was fun to start with Abbott’s Flatland and end with Rucker’s Spaceland. Inspired by the lesson I started to write a short story to be read on our Sylvester party.
Greetings from cold old Bavaria to sunny California!
Kehrtraud

By: Mac Tonnies

Mac Tonnies — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:36:49 +0000

Arf is one of the many rewards of “The Hollow Earth,” beautifully and simply realized.