Image: Wikimedia. There is the problem, though, of cracks forming in the outer shell, with gravity sucking ocean water and debris toward the center of the Earth. In a time when science had not yet divested itself of religion, there was the question of why exactly God would arrange things this way.
What use could the empty spaces between the circles within our planet be? For Halley, who believed that all of the other planets in our solar system were inhabited, it was just another place for God to stash life.
Earth, he argued, was essentially a giant building made by the Almighty. There is of course then the problem of the light required for such life.
No problem, really, said Halley. Halley's imagining of the interior of Earth, which proves he didn't do nearly as much mescaline as Athansius Kircher. Horror is far from dead. I mean there are more voices, more diverse points of view coming into these stories, which is just making the buffet all the more delicious.
And for me, this question was: What is at the heart of the universe? Is there a heart at the center of the universe? A lot of different writings and thoughts on it. I just keep coming back to that question: What does it mean that the universe is both so painful and so beautiful?
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