would be be crushed by the gravity of float around cause there would be no were for the gravity to pull us??? i always thought it would be funny to dig a hole from 1 side of the earth to to the other and jump in would we fliy up into the sky on the other side then fall backdown and do the same lol....sory i think of weird things lol
2006-06-17 07:18:52 · 24 answers · asked by steve 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
or float around not of
2006-06-17 07:19:57 · update #1
ok an answer saying i would burn but if there was no lava and it wasnt hot...to the smart ****
2006-06-17 07:21:52 · update #2
OK after a few answers im BORED ovaslly no one is on the same wave length as me every body saying "it would be to hot" never mind.....
2006-06-17 07:25:36 · update #3
Because your question is specifically about gravity, I will ignore the temperature of the core. The thing that is important to realize is that gravity is an attractive force. Although it's a bit complicated, we can answer your question by considering gravity an attraction between two atoms.
The Earth pulls us down as if there were a large gravitational pull coming from the center of the planet, but this is not actually the case. The pull is actually coming from each atom of the Earth independently. It's like if you had two friends who each had a rope attached to your belt buckle. If both are standing in front of you and pull hard, you'll feel a pull that is twice as hard as each alone. If one is standing a bit to the right and the other is standing a bit to the left, and they both pull towards themselves (and they pull just as hard as each other), you will be pulled straight forward.
In the center of the Earth, it would be like you had lots of friends each with a rope attached to your belt buckle, and they were standing all around you in a circle. If they all pull, they will all cancel each other out -- you won't move at all! You wouldn't even feel it.
So, to answer your question, in the center of the Earth you would feel pretty much the same as if you were in space -- weightless.
2006-06-17 07:35:36 · answer #1 · answered by HCP 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, the center of the earth is likely molten, so neither. If you somehow could jump through a hole in the middle of the planet, you wouldn't fly up into the sky. You'd decelerate just as fast as you accellerated - meaning you'd stop right at the edge of the hole on the other side of the planet (assuming all resistance factors are equal like drag from the air; you'd probably come up a bit short).
2006-06-17 14:23:40 · answer #2 · answered by UNITool 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chances are if we went to the centre of the Earth, we'd die. The core is too hot to sustain life. Hate to rain on your parade.
Even if we didn't burn up, we wouldn't keep bouncing back and forth like that. Gravity is dependent on mass, in this case, the mass of the Earth. Since the mass is spread out equally around you (assuming you are in the dead centre) you'd be pulled in all directions at once, either floating motionless or being torn limb from limb. Any way you look at it, you're dead.
2006-06-17 14:21:09 · answer #3 · answered by Ian M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Jules Verne "Journey to the Center of the Earth" for his answer. Or imagine, if you will, Superman digging a very very big hole, almost the diameter Earth, and then you jump in wearing a space suit. You would "float" like an astronaut walking in space.
2006-06-17 15:16:23 · answer #4 · answered by Kinloch K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two possibilities; one for an object and one for a human being
For an object, if it is thrown theoritically from a hole dig from the surface of earth till centre of earth, it would liquify or vaporise by approaching the centre according to the element; however the hole we are talking about will not stand. for human beings to stay live there, forget it unless we switch off the engine of the earth.
Also you might never get to the centre as you will get to swirl around the centre as you approch there. You can only go there with your mind which is non physical and thus transcends laws of physics. Try meditation.
2006-06-17 14:36:41 · answer #5 · answered by peace.angels 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we could dig a hole and somehow prevent ourselves from burning up, we would gradually deevolve back as we fell. First to cavemen, then apes, then frogs, then fish, then ameboas. After that we would shoot out the other end of the earth and reevolve but come out with superhuman powers like the xmen and ****.
2006-06-17 14:24:37 · answer #6 · answered by zarathustra_75 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be very hard to get out, I reckon. Gravity pulls us "down" toward the centre of whatever ball of rock we are on. The further away you are from the surface, the more floaty you get, so it seems to me that right there in the dead centre of the Earth, gravity will be really really strong. I may be utterly wrong though.
2006-06-17 21:50:44 · answer #7 · answered by Kango Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd never make it, because most of the Earth is liquid rock and metals, and extremely hot. The crust that we live on is only about 25 miles thick.
It is the motion of this liquid that creates the Earth's powerful magnetic field.
2006-06-17 14:27:05 · answer #8 · answered by kurtrisser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...it's not weird, i've wondered that too.
I wonder if we'd just keep falling back and forth through the same hole! Especially if we put a tube to slide through.
In reality we'd probably just burn up from the intense heat inside the earth.
But that's no fun...
2006-06-17 14:23:26 · answer #9 · answered by saintfighteraqua 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you couldn't becasue the earth's core is hot Beneath the mantle is the Earth's core. The Earth's core consists of a fluid outer core and a solid inner core. Because the outer core contains iron, when it flows it generates a magnetic field. This is the source of the Earth's magnetic field.
2006-06-17 14:23:04 · answer #10 · answered by xx_muggles_xx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋