I came across a seemingly absurd idea the other day while browsing in the mathematics section of the library. The idea that rivers can run uphill. I thought that was a little strange. How could that ever be true? I wanted to know so I read the piece. Well, did it prove that rivers run uphill? Strangely yes. It proved that water, at a certain distance from the center of the earth can flow to a certain distance further away from the center of the earth. How can that be? Thinking about it hard and long I came up with the same reality cheat that I think most intelligent, thinking indiviuals would come up with. That it not really uphill, since in the example they used, the river started around 1000 feet above sea level and ended up at sea level. So it really didn't flow uphill after all. The world was normal again. I could go back to a reality that I could neatly put in my little cubbyhole. But then I read the piece again. I shouldn't have done that if I had wanted to live my life in blissful acceptance of the popular reality comfort zone. There it was, what I had so conveniently ignored, starring me in the face. The piece defined up hill as further away from the center of the Earth. So, how come that is different from further away from sea level? It can't be different, can it? But it is different for some reason. Thinking about it, the resolution became impossible if we keep the world view that we are taught. That world view contains to many contradictions. So I concluded that the model that contains the least contradictions is the one that is most likely to be the truth. What model did that end up being? THE EARTH IS HOLLOW!!!