Eli5: How do we know that the Hollow earth theory is false if we have never been in the center of the planet?

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Eli5: How do we know that the Hollow earth theory is false if we have never been in the center of the planet?

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We don’t, we can only make inferences based on evidence, and the amount of supporting evidence needs to be enough that the scientific community as a whole generally accepts the theory. In this case there is a lot of valid, accurate, and reliable data that proves the current theory.