just imagine if we could make a hole in the earh ,and we reasch the other side , if someone jump in this hole .will he reasch the other side ???
2006-10-09 22:23:49 · 14 answers · asked by Adel 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
I used to think about this too. I think there was a book I read as a kid. Unfortunetely, this question depends on a lot of "IFs". IF we could dig that far (I think the deepest mine shaft is 11 miles only) we'd run into magna and burn. IF we could dig through that and not run out of oxygen and not burn and somehow found where on earth to start digging so that when we came out the other side we didn't hit ocean, but land, then we could try your jumping in experiment. If you dug a hole that was perfectly straight (like laser precision straight) though the exact center of the earth and jumped in, you'd hit the wall on the way down because the earth was still rotating. The hole would have to be curved like a giant "C" because after you got past the center, the earth would be spinning the other direction. Let's say that the earth wasn't spinning and you build a straight hole. You probably wouldn't reach the other side. I forget what the science term is but it's like when you push a swing: it gets lower a little bit each time. I've heard that there's no gravity in the center of the earth because all the matter is around the center instead of inside. So I don't know if you'd eventually stop in the center or keep going back and forth.
Sorry this answer is so long, I can't sleep and have nothing else to do.
2006-10-10 02:01:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Digging a hole from one side of the earth to the other, if ever that is possible, and jumping in it, the person will fall not on the other side but on the side of the hole based on mass and gravity.
2006-10-09 22:31:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why did you don't remind NORTH KOREA to dig that hole by the automic bomb before yestrday ? IoI if enter from that hole you will hang in the center because balanced attraction .
2006-10-09 22:42:33 · answer #3 · answered by horse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that we may die from old age before we get there. If not dying from that then we would get burned to death. In the core of the earth is a large fireball.
2006-10-09 22:29:54 · answer #4 · answered by queenmaeve172000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Couldn't happen. The drilling implement would burn up in the Earth's core.
2006-10-10 05:04:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would find Hell then dig to the other side Wyle E. Coyote.
Don't you remember???
2006-10-09 22:28:44 · answer #6 · answered by meowzer mix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we or who ever would be very tired at the end of every work day.
2006-10-09 22:25:56 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a hole..yes...but u have to spend ur whole life in digging.
2006-10-09 22:30:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we will be doing a simple harmonic motion from one end to the other
2006-10-09 22:26:30 · answer #9 · answered by raj 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would burn up and vaporize at the molton core.
2006-10-10 02:12:54 · answer #10 · answered by Tom M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋