{"title":"Could a gravity inversion exist within the Hollow Earth of Legendary's Monsterverse?","authors":"R. Steven Millward","doi":"arxiv-2408.02867","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"One of the most popular movie franchises of late is Legendary's Monsterverse\nas is evidenced by the gross earnings of the series recently surpassing the two\nand a half billion dollar mark with the release of $\\it{Godzilla X Kong}$. As\nis typical with many movies of this genre, in order to enjoy them one must\nsuspend their disbelief when it comes to the laws of physics. While there are a\nplethora of examples of violations of basic principles (the square-cube law\nbeing the prime example) the idea of a \"gravity inversion\" occurring inside of\nthe \"Hollow Earth\" is among the most debated as well as the most relevant to\nthe storylines of the recent movies. The intent of this paper is to show that,\nwhile typical scientific arguments refuting the possibility of such an\ninversion are definitely completely correct, a slight modification of the\nconditions assumed to exist inside the planet in these arguments may allow for\nthe inversion to actually occur.","PeriodicalId":501348,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Popular Physics","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"arXiv - PHYS - Popular Physics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.02867","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
One of the most popular movie franchises of late is Legendary's Monsterverse
as is evidenced by the gross earnings of the series recently surpassing the two
and a half billion dollar mark with the release of $\it{Godzilla X Kong}$. As
is typical with many movies of this genre, in order to enjoy them one must
suspend their disbelief when it comes to the laws of physics. While there are a
plethora of examples of violations of basic principles (the square-cube law
being the prime example) the idea of a "gravity inversion" occurring inside of
the "Hollow Earth" is among the most debated as well as the most relevant to
the storylines of the recent movies. The intent of this paper is to show that,
while typical scientific arguments refuting the possibility of such an
inversion are definitely completely correct, a slight modification of the
conditions assumed to exist inside the planet in these arguments may allow for
the inversion to actually occur.