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After World War II, Hapgood taught history at Springfield College in New Hampshire. A student question one day about the Lost Continent of MuMu or MU may refer to: mu (lowercase μ, uppercase Μ), a letter in the Greek alphabet Mu, a hypothetical lost continent in the Pacific Ocean mu , a Japanese word important in Zen mu , Chinese unit of measurement equal to 666. 7 square metres Mauritiu led to a class project to investigate AtlantisAtlantis was a legendary ancient culture and island, whose existence and location have never been confirmed. The first mentions we have are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said that it was destroyed by a natural disaster (possibly an earth. This led to an investigation of possible ways that massive earth changes could occur, including the sensationalistic theories of Hugh Auchincloss Brown .
In 1958 Hapgood published his first book, The Earth's Shifting Crust. The Foreword to this was written by Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein ( March 14 1879 April 18 1955) was a theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, shortly before his death in 1955. In this book, and two successive books, Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings (1966) and The Path of the Pole ( 1970Events January events January 1 Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January), Hapgood proposed the radical theory that the Earth's axis has shifted numerous times during geological history. This theory is not widely accepted by orthodox geologists.
Hapgood's Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings used numerous archival maps, including the Piri ReisPiri Reis was an Ottoman admiral born around 1465, in Gallipoli on the Dardanelles. He began to serve as a privateer in the Ottoman Navy as a youth and after many years of fighting against Spanish, Genoese and Venetian navies, he rose to the rank of Reis map, which he claims show a vast southern continent roughly similar to AntarcticaAntarctica (from Greek nu;ταρκτικ&sigmaf opposed to the arctic) is a continent surrounding the Earth's South Pole. It is the coldest place on earth and is almost entirely covered by ice. It is not to be confused with the in shape, to propose that a 15 degree pole shift occurred 9,500 years ago, and that a part of the Antarctic was ice-free at that time. By implication an ice-age civlization could have mapped the coast at that point in time. This theory, although used by recent AtlantisAtlantis was a legendary ancient culture and island, whose existence and location have never been confirmed. The first mentions we have are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said that it was destroyed by a natural disaster (possibly an earth theorists as a jumping-off point for speculation, is not supported by current knowledge of the history of the Antarctic ice-cap.
In 1976, Allan W. Eckert used Hapgood's theory as the basis of a novel: "The HAB Theory".