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The Land of No Horizon book review

The human race is a misfit species and our unique biological makeup indicates we partly evolved from an environment different to the Earth's surface, argue Kevin and Matthew Taylor in The Land of No Horizon. What sort of environment? One of constant light and warmth, of low ultraviolet radiation and lesser gravity, and a 28-day lunar-based time cycle.

So, short of going off-planet, what are we left with as the place of our origin? The interior of planet Earth, the authors suggest. But rather than be too focussed on other intelligent life forms that may have tampered with our evolution (as they have, the authors contend), they build up their thesis supporting a hollow Earth theory.

Central to their arguement is the action of Earth expansion, which they say created the continents and the oceans as well as such anomalies as an inner ocean deep within the crust (the Moho discontinuity?). They thorise that quantities of its waters can be released into the outer ocean in great vortex-driven upwellings during an atmospheric pressure equalisation event that the planet periodically undergoes. Such upwellings have been witnessed at sea and from the air, say the authors. Indeed, a huge upwelling may have caused the Great Flood of biblical times (and the authors don't discount the Book of Genisis as a source of information).

Looking at studies of the Sun and other planets in our solar system, such as Jupiter and Mars, the authors also concider the possibility of Earth having an inner sun.

The text is generously interspersed with diagrams that highlight the authors' theories. While more a stream-of-consciousness discussion than a referenced scientific treatise, the book opens the imagination and critical faculties to alternative explanations of terrestrial history and our origins as a species.

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