Is there a connection between physics and happiness?

[Takereasy]

Hint: the answer is yes.

 

[arildno]

Hint: The Earth isn't hollow

 

[russ_watters]

And except for small air pockets, a planet couldn't possibly be hollow.

 

[LURCH]

But if it were, I agree with you; there would be a physical explanation.

 

[jcsd]

The Earth is hollow and we're living on the inside of it, despite what the Euclideanists say.

 

[arildno]

jcsd: You haven't read Martin Gardner's "Fads&Fallacies" by any chance, have you?

 

[jcsd]

jcsd: You haven't read Martin Gardner's "Fads&Fallacies" by any chance, have you?

No, but I'm famalir with Cyrus Teed's ideas, which are only of note by the fact that if your willing to be a bit liberal with the geometry, then it's very difficult to disprove.

 

[Nereid]

How much is 'a bit liberal' wrt geometry?

 

[Chronos]

Like being a bit pregnant, my guess.

 

[jcsd]

How much is 'a bit liberal' wrt geometry?

You can map any point outside of a sphere onto it's interior.

 

[Nereid]

You can map any point outside of a sphere onto it's interior.

Thanks; perhaps a very simple version of the Holographic Principle perhaps?

So, in this view, the CMBR would become emission from a sphere interior to the Earth?

What happens when we dig 'down', into the Earth's crust then?

 

[jcsd]

Thanks; perhaps a very simple version of the Holographic Principle perhaps?

So, in this view, the CMBR would become emission from a sphere interior to the Earth?

What happens when we dig 'down', into the Earth's crust then?

The CMBR stays as the CMBR I suppose, but I doubt antone has looked into the model seriously.

Unfortunately in this model if you dig down deep enoguh you'd find a singular point in your new coordinate system.

 

[Chronos]

Apologies, did anyone ever take the 'holographic universe' seriously? I admit I took a leave of absence from science a couple of years ago. Having come back again, it still looks like the observed universe is still here.

 

[Nereid]

Unfortunately in this model if you dig down deep enoguh you'd find a singular point in your new coordinate system.

Interesting. Of course we can 'dig' using the waves from earthquake ... I wonder if this singular point thus corresponds to what in the ordinary world of science we would call the centre of the Earth? Which would be a spherical 'shell', ~3000km 'under' our feet?