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...NAVARRO'S IDEA UNIVERSE INSIDE EARTH [TIME, JULY 14] HARDLY NOVEL. THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS, FOLLOWERS OF [KORESHANITY'S CYRUS TEED], BELIEVED THIS EVER SINCE 1870. KORESHAN COLONY AT ESTERO, FLORIDA, NOW A MERE PITIFUL REMNANT, HARDLY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GALLANT EARLY EFFORTS OF HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS WHO COULD HARDLY BE CLASSED AS IGNORANT OR SUPERSTITIOUS...
While Amateur Astronomer Antonio Duran Navarro lay on his back and gazed at the heavens, I wonder whether he was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs by lantern-light or moonshine? The idea of a universe contained within the earth's crust was conceived by Mr. Burroughs some 25 years ago in his novel Pellucidar [and its predecessor, At the Earth's Core...
...Berlin, the other in Buenos Aires), two amateur astronomers last week had independently decided that Copernicus had everything inside out and backwards. The earth, Germany's Valentin Herz explained, does not revolve from west to east; it spins in the opposite direction. Argentina's Antonio Duran Navarro had an even more novel idea. Says Navarro: "The universe, 8,000 miles in diameter, is contained within the earth...
Outside In. Duran Navarro (a lawyer by profession) arrived at his theory by a process of elimination. If the earth's inhabitants live on the outside of a spinning sphere (as is popularly supposed), why, he reasoned, doesn't everything fly off into outer space? (Navarro takes no stock at all in centripetal force...
...explains, "how different it is! Centrifugal force places all objects in their right sequence by density: solids, liquids, gases; and in the very center there will be a vacuum, whereto protons and electrons converge to form 'fotons' which in turn constitute the sun. . . ." As imaginatively sketched by Navarro's son, the universe fits, cozily inside a globe with a thick, unpleasantly scrofulous outside crust...