What would happen if I dug a hole to the Earth's core and then jumped in?

Answer 1

Assuming this is a hypothetical question, you would land with a big thud and then float as you'd be in free fall around the sun.

However if you dug through to the other side of then things would be different, follow the links.

Enjoy the journey - send us a card!

Answer 2

with the Earth as it is, you'll have a big volcano long before you reach the core. but i guess this is not the answer you're looking for

let me now suppose that when you dig nothing happens, i.e. somehow you don't have problems with liquid magma, heat, all that stuff, you end up with a large tunnel with clean walls, going down to the center of the Earth.

If you jump in, you'll obviously fall. As you fall, you'll have more and more Earth above you, and less and less below you. So your acceleration will decrease - but there will still be an acceleration, so your speed will continue to increase. OK at the very center there will be no acceleration so your speed won't change anymore. But still, when you'll hit the end of your tunnel, at the center of the Earth, you'll smash against the wall at high speed, which tends to be bad for your health.

Now let me suppose that instead of stopping in the center of the Earth, you go all the way to the other side, and you still find a way to control the magma, the temperature, etc. Now this gets more interesting. You fall, fall, increasing speed but decreasing acceleration. At the center of the Earth you reach maximum speed (and zero acceleration). Then you continue along the tunnel, this time the acceleration works AGAINST your speed and you slow down. Until you reach the other end of the tunnel with zero speed and maximum acceleration - and start falling again.

So you'd oscillate back and forth - if there was no friction.

But there's going to be some friction. So your oscillations will progressively dampen, i.e. you will go up less and less far in the tunnel. And eventually, over time, you'll stabilise at the center of the Earth, weighing nothing by the way.

At which point, if you want to get your life back, you'll have to first walk, then climb, up a 4'000 mile deep pit. Which may take you a while...


Good luck

Answer 3

Just past the midway point of the earth, you'd slam into the end of the hole. Now, if you dug it all the way through (a straight line shaft from surface to surface of the earth through the exact center), you'd accelerate positively until you approached the center of the earth. By the time you got there, you'd be going very fast (if we don't take air friction into account). You'd continue through, shooting "up" to the other surface opening, slowing down gradually until, just at the opening on the other side of the earth, you'd stop.... then start falling back through the hole towards the center of the earth again... repeat. You'd be like a huge pendulum!

Answer 4

Once you have dug your hole, why bother to climb back to the surface to jump back down to the bottom of the hole again?

To answer your question, having been overcooked on your way down, you would vapourise in the molten outer core. Temperature in excess of 4000 Deg. C

Answer 5

Hypothetically talking, optimistic. yet basically after diverse rocking around the centre. you will probable shoot previous the centre due on your momentum from the fall, and attain rather plenty an same top you have been at previously falling in, yet then gravity could take over and you will fall lower back off lower back. After each fall, you will lose some momentum, till finally you're caught on the centre of the planet.

Answer 6

LOL, love Karen's answer. Question though, how would you get out of the hole you just dug in order to jump back into it?

Answer 7

Presuming the hole remained stable you would be killed for a range of reasons.

The heat inside the earth would kill you.

You would also die from the fall. Although gravity drops away liniarly inside the earth your momentum from the fall would mean that you would slam into the core at high speed.

The pressure increase would probably also kill you.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I would like to think that the US government would seize the hole and use it to store radio active waste and Muslims awaiting trial for terrorism.
More likely you would create your very own volcano long before you reached the earths core

Answer 10

The earth's core is approx 4000 degrees Celsius, so you wouldn't survive. Doubt you'd survive the pressure exerted on your body as you go deeper.