What if the universe is a Physical Continuum that continues past our poles, bridged by navigable causeways of land, ice, and water that forever link
together all planets and stars? The implications for exploration would be massive. This notion was proposed by Amedeo F. Giannini in his book "Worlds beyond the poles".
The theory is essentially that the earth is a plane that extends infinitely from the North and South Pole, and that not only is there land beyond the Poles, but these lands lead to other worlds, and that the planets are not actually up in outer space, but are terrestrially connected and accessible from the earth by venturing thousands of miles beyond the North and South Pole. So there are no northern or southern ends to Earth, but rather mere ice barriers that keep us from penetrating the lands beyond in a completely connected universe.
Giannini claims that stars and planets are mere tricks of our eye lens — and subsequently every lens ever created, be it telescope or microscope, based on our own limited eyes.
If the infinite plane idea were true, then the way to explore new worlds would not be up in outer space, but rather out traveling in a straight line to new lands beyond the poles.
One thing that lends credence to this theory is the fact that Admiral Byrd made a journey 1,700 miles beyond the North Pole in 1928. Byrd made a journey 2,300 miles beyond the South Pole in 1947. These facts are available from numerous sources on the internet, including the Longines TV program interview from 1956 with Byrd on Youtube, during which Byrd describes seeing a vast Antarctic continent of incredible natural and mineral resources.
Here is an interesting map of the world made 1,000 years ago showing lands and worlds beyond the poles.
1) The contradiction between the second and third paragraphs summarising Gianni's model.
2) That apart from the irrelevant inclusion of the UN badge, or one resembling it, each invented "map" places the two American continents in the centre, and ignores everyone else, though some imagine an Eastwards extension of the Northern one .
The maps' ideas are similar to a bizarre model concoted by a 19C small-time hotelier in the Dakota spa town of Hot Springs. He produced a drawing of the Earth as a huge, square slab with a hemi-toroidal trench in the centre. The sea, apparently, filled the trench although that's not clear.
Who occupied the central dome? Oh look - the North and South Americas. How unexpected.
Despite the author, whose name I forget I'm afraid, trying to claim Biblical authority, even ornamenting the flat, featureless spandrels with angels about 800 miles tall by scale, the Holy Land is not on his fantasy-land. Nor is the Middle East generally. Indeed, no other countries are shown apart from vague hints on the outer rim of the oceanic trench. The writer even made some money by selling to tourists, copies of a pamphlet describing his dream-land.
Presumably flat-Earthery is a primarily American cult!
