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- Herausgeber: Luca Bertorelli
- Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020
Albert Einstein became famous and is known throughout the world for his theory of relativity. Many scientists, in the past, have remained in the shadows, some totally forgotten. But what if Einstein had been sidelined in the past? If someone else became famous in his place, how would we live today? If his most famous theory, the theory of relativity, had not been taken seriously by the scientific community, perhaps we would think that the earth is flat? Or would it all be the same?
Some great minds of the past have been pushed aside over time to bring us the science we all know today. Let's take a few steps in a different direction from what we are used to and check the reliability of some concepts.
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Indice dei contenuti
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CREDITS
THANKS
by LUCA BERTORELLI
Title | Behind Einstein's Shadow
Author | Luca Bertorelli
© 2020. All rights reserved to the Author. This work is directly published by the Author and the Author exclusively holds all rights to it. No part of this book may therefore be reproduced without the prior consent of the Author.
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Pac-man vs Asteroids
Speaking positively or negatively about a subject conveys the basic information about it anyway. In a television report, the "Pac-man effect" was attributed to Flat Earthers, in other words the explanation of what would happen to an airplane if it crossed the boundary of a hypothetical flat Earth: if it were thrown off the edge of the Earth, it would return from the opposite side. First, I went to see if there were supporters of the flat Earth in the world. The English inventor Samuel Birley Rowbotham in 1849, under the pseudonym "Parallax", published a sixteen-page booklet entitled Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe. In 1956 Samuel Shenton, a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, founded the Flat Earth Society. So not only did the Flat Earthers exist, they also had their own association. I went on to examine "the Pac-man effect" without finding a single supporter of the Flat Earth who would claim such a ridiculous thing. To my amazement, I discovered that it was instead claimed by an official science scientist in the documentary series presented by Morgan Freeman.
In the episode entitled "Do the boundaries of the Universe exist?" (episode 2, season 2), the astronomer Jean-Pierre Luminet hypothesized a finite Universe delimited by a boundary. He described it as an asymmetrical dodecahedron, with rounded faces, more like a soccer ball. He argued that if you came out of the Universe from one of these faces, you would return to the opposite side, but rotated three-hundred and sixty degrees. Jean-Pierre Luminet was inspired by Asteroids, a famous video game that was fashionable in the 1980s, made by Atari in 1979.
I continued my research and came across an article that exposed the belief in the flat Earth. Although it was published by Repubblica, a respected newspaper, I expected to read it with the expectation that I was facing a colossal hoax. The author listed concepts that were completely foreign to me and allowed me to discover a new way of thinking aimed at redefining the shape of our planet. At the end of the article I found myself reflecting on how the awareness of not living on a globe would affect my life. It probably would not change my days divided between home, work and the journey that unites them; I would still do the shopping and make the most of my free time. However, I began to feel a sentiment of uneasiness: are we living at the dawn of the third millennium and still debating the true shape of our planet? The fact that the Earth had always been considered flat by our ancestors is no mystery but proposing it again in today's world seemed like a strange idea.
The thing is: either the Earth's shape is spherical or it's flat, easy, isn't it? But a problem arises because while in the first case it would be all already written and consolidated, in the case of the latter, the foundations of science and parts of our history would be undermined. Moreover, if it were true, someone would not only have been lying to you and me for decades, but they would have done it in such a shameless way that the whole of humanity would now suffer for their lie. From my point of view, the reason for such devious deception seemed mysterious and impenetrable. However, I decided to devote a little more time to the theories of the Flat Earthers and I spent many hours, in the days that followed, unravelling thousands of articles and videos, both for and against the flat Earth. Much of the material was more inclined to ridicule the Flat Earthers than providing concrete scientific explanations. The only certainty that everyone agreed
