Ignore the fact that the Earth's center is molten rock and the hole is impossible to drill.
2006-08-30 05:38:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It would fall ALMOST all the way thru, but gravity would be pulling it back when it hit the halfway mark.
It would continue to go back and forth but a little less each trip until if finally stopped in the middle where gravity is the strongest.
2006-08-30 05:45:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well Nowww...
My guess, never having been there before, is that the bowling ball would be crushed into a teeny little ball of carbon by the forces impacting upon it about midway down the hole. Beyond that point the carbon might be transformed into diamond, and thence into a veeery
tiny blob of molten something... I am not sure what liquid diamond is called...
2006-09-02 16:29:27 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, assuming that there is air in the hole, the ball will eventually slow down due to air resistance. Even if it falls through the center of the earth, there must come a point at which it reaches its maximum speed, which is LESS than it would be if it were falling in a vacuum. So, if the ball is just dropped from ground level, it would not reach ground level at the other side, due to the air resistance.
2006-08-30 05:46:53 · answer #3 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would reach terminal velocity in air (air at an increased density) fall through the center continuing until it lost it's momentum, fall back through the center blah blah.
If you dropped it through the poles.
If you dropped it anywhere else the coriolis effect would bounce it off the sides.
2006-08-30 05:45:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The ball starts to oscillate. Up and down, up and down....
2006-08-30 07:57:10 · answer #5 · answered by sonfarX 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would fly out the other end and smack you on the head for asking such a silly question.
2006-08-30 05:46:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
it would melt about 3 or 4 miles down!
2006-08-30 05:46:11 · answer #7 · answered by gooterscooby 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It would disintegrate in the heat of the core.
2006-08-30 05:43:59 · answer #8 · answered by midlandsharon 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You would blow up the entire world
2006-08-30 05:46:16 · answer #9 · answered by coolboy1293 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋