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Who built the moon? Is the moon hollow...home > mentalism articles > Who built the Moon? The Moon is one 400th the size of the Sun The Moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than the Sun The Moon is rotating at a rate of 400km per Earth day On April 11th 1970, Commander Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise climbed inside Apollo 13 and flew to the Moon. Fifty-five hours and fifty-five minutes into the trip a loud banging sound signaled the blowing out of two (out of three) fuel cells. The crew needed enough power, oxygen and water to last four days. The remaining fuel cell was rapidly running out of juice but all wasn't lost. Onboard ship the men had a fully stocked lunar module they could harvest parts from. On April 14th, emerging from the other side of the Moon, the crew jettisoned the third stage of the lunar module. Crashing into the Moon, with a force equivalent to 11.5 tonnes of TNT, the impact point was 85 miles north-west of a seismometer set up by the crew of Apollo 12. "NASA reports demonstrate the reaction of the scientists on Earth as [the lunar module] hit the lunar surface - 'The Moon rang like a bell'". Houston remarked to the Apollo 13 astronauts "By the way Aquarius, we see the results now from the 12s seisomometer. Looks like your booster just hit the Moon, and it's rocking a little bit". Dr Sean C. Solomon, former Professor of Geophysics at MIT and now Director of the Terrestial Magnetism Department, Carnegie Institution of Washington and Principal Investigator for Carnegie's reasearch, part of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, has said "The lunar orbiter experiments vastly improved our knowledge of the Moon's gravitational field... indicating the frightening possibility that the moon may be hollow". Why is this frightening? According to Carl Sagan "It is well understood that a natural satellite cannot be a hollow object". As the authors of Who Built the Moon? put it: "The problem therefore is simple - if the Moon is hollow, someone or something manufactured it". Who Built the Moon? is a fascinating book. Even if you don't go along with the authors Christopher Knight and Alan Butler, it is amazing to read such a coherent argument proposing what seems impossible. As well as putting forward their argument for the hollowness of the Moon and their suggestions of who created it, the authors offer a good introduction to the field of paleoastronomy (ancient people's understanding of the universe). I don't suppose that many readers will ultimately take Knight and Butler seriously (although the book is seriously written) but even so will start thinking about an everynight object, we usually take for granted, in a different way. This type of book falls into an interesting niche. When science doesn't have a proven answer of where something came from or why it is the way it - there will always be people ready to offer their own suggestions. Something in Knight and Butler's favour is that the best guess of the science-men of where the Moon came from is only slightly more believable than their conclusions. So what are their conclusions - who built the Moon? Knight and Butler offer three choices of creator:
The question for the authors of Who Built the Moon? is not so much who built the Moon but why it was built. Obviously, the Moon does an important job regulating the sea tides and keeping the Earth spinning at the correct angle and speed. Without the Moon being where it is, the size it is and so on, human life on Earth would be impossible. So, if the Moon was manufactured by someone - it was manufactured to make life on Earth possible. This being so, who wants human life to be possible? Whoever it is they want us to know what they've done. The Moon contains a hidden message: 400th the size of the Sun, 400 times closer to the Earth than the Sun, and it rotates at 400km per Earth day. No other planetary object has these mathematical concidences. Knight and Butler argue that the Moon has been deliberately constructed in this way to draw our attention. The figures inspire further investigation - what message will we find? The final conclusion of the book - who Knight and Butler think built the Moon, is fantastic. They argue, and argue well, for the idea that at some point in the future human beings travel back in time and put the Moon into orbit in order to make life on Earth possible. Basically, a time loop. The Moon is in place so that human life is possible. Humans evolve to a stage where time travel and moon construction is possible - and then travel back in time to build the Moon. A message is left hidden in the Moon to drawn human attention to it. Humans must start thinking about the Moon and investigating the message because if they don't - they may never realize that at some point it will be up to them to travel back and build a moon. If they don't, the time loop will be broken and human beings will cease to exist. It all sounds like the plot of a second-rate science fiction novel. However, in those novels the explanations are usually weak and full of holes. There is never a fully satisfying explanation of why things are the way the authors need them to be for the story to work. In Who Built the Moon? we have an intellegently argued thesis, that even if you can not accept the conclusions is an entertaining and thought-provoking read.
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