What would happen to earth if a hole a few feet in diameter were made through it?

Question

Just curious.

Answer 1

The hole would collapse in on itself in the core, it may be retained in the crust and possibly magma may rise forming a 'hot spot' (essencailly what has happened at Hawai) but in terms of major affects, not a lot

Answer 2

It is conjectured that the earth has a molten core (no one has ever drilled deep enough to find out, but this is accepted as fact within the scientific community). If it is molten, drilling a hole all the way through would be a logistical imposibility. So, nothing would happen.

Answer 3

Just a few hundred kilometer deep, you will hit molten magma. The liquid rock will quickly flow back and fill the hole, and if there is enough pressure, the hole in the solid (cold) rock above would woud also fill up with magma and would turn the hole into a volcanic channel.

Answer 4

Gravity would pull he hole back closed in around the core. And you have to deal with the molten (liquid) magma which would fill in any hole.

But if you were able to stop that from happening... anything that enters the hole would get stuck in the middle.

Answer 5

You could put a string through it, wind it round and use the earth as a super yo-yo. However because there is a liquid layer to the earth it is not possible to make a hole through it so it spoils the fun.

Answer 6

I once tried to dig a hole to china. Not much happened.

Answer 7

I'd find a way to get my mother-in-law into that hole

Answer 8

it is impossible, but if it would, then everything is possible

Answer 9

nothing