If we had the technology to drill a 20 foot around hole through the earth and it was unobstructed all the way through to the other side. What would happen to a 2 ton object when it was dropped in? Would it go fast enough to break the gravity that may slow it before it hit the other side and shoot out the other side?
2006-08-04 08:23:53 · 13 answers · asked by xjujijimex 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
what if a midget was on the 2 ton object with a 3 legged 2 peckered billy goat? would that change anything? of course i'm not serious... i just wanted to see how many egg-headed responses I could get.
2006-08-04 09:28:53 · update #1
It would be captured by Japanese solders on a deserted island somewhere in the pacific and converted into a command module using coconuts and vines. It would then be hoisted onto a raft and placed into the middle of a lagoon and used to orchestrate operas from Shakespearean times in Cantonese. after which it would be covered in an egg and milk mixture, coated in rice, and flung with a medieval trebouchet at marauding monkeys for their shiny pelts and a parasite that grows under their arms. The pelts would be made into fedoras and the parasites would be sealed in amber from the only sap tree on the island and worn as sticky bracelets during ceremonies celebrating the coming of the tsunami. as the tsunami arrives it would pour into the hole and shoot through the earth and out the other side because of steam pressure built up through the transition through the core and slowly propel the earth out of it's present orbit just far enough that we could finally see the mirror earth on the other side of the sun
2006-08-04 09:53:46 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll assume you have some sort of technology to keep magma form oozing up - this is a thought experiment.
The object would gain speed untill it was going at maximum velocity, pass through the center of the gravitational influence, then go forward a little less than half way the distance it "fell" to the center point. It would then fall back, go through, pass half the second distance and so forth untill it reached center point and just king of wiggled there wondering why some sadist dropped it down the hole in the first place.
2006-08-04 08:31:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity is a force of compression that draws us and other objects along with it due to the physical law that says a vacuum and gravity can not exist in the same space. If gravity did exist in the hole, which is very unlikely, it would draw things to the sides of the hole and not up or down depending on your point of reference. The object would not fall.
Please do not try this at home. Our entire gravitational field would probably collapse hurling the object, along with our atmosphere, along with us and all of our toys out into space. I, for one, am not ready to leave home yet.
2006-08-04 09:11:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are we negleting the moon and the Sun because these would have a pretty big effect on the pattern of the objects oscillation. I would susepect that the object would hit the sides of the hole before one complete oscillation would occur becuase of the sun and moon.
2006-08-04 08:38:23 · answer #4 · answered by the4nhustla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-28 02:44:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this has been answered before. check archives.
brief answer-- object would fall until it almost came out other side. then it would reverse direction. it would keep doing this, but get shorter distance traveled each time. it would eventually wind up in center of earth.
i have seen this question on Ask Marylin and also Straight Dope. both experts said same thing.
2006-08-04 08:31:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
It would bobble back and forth like a pendulum, slowing down with each traversal... eventually ending up in the middle. Friction and air resistance will slow it down pretty quick.
Of course it will melt when it goes through the center, but I didn't want to be nit picky.
2006-08-04 08:28:35 · answer #7 · answered by Bors 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ooooo
i like ur add-on better
but the 2 ton pebble thingy might melt by the time it gets to china/usa/europe/russia/alaska/canada/africa/wherever
and no, the gravitational pull would yank it back and sooner or later, center it directly into the center of the earth!
counting that it doesn't melt though
2006-08-04 15:52:49 · answer #8 · answered by Eng 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its would fall fast and then come to a sudden stop, causing the big volcanic and tectonic activitiy ever know to man, and then the end of the world would happen , so thanks for the hole though the earth
2006-08-04 09:12:34 · answer #9 · answered by Travis W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It'll end up in China.
2006-08-04 08:34:14 · answer #10 · answered by Jon Skywalker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋