Would I be digging with the earth above me and come out upside down and then fall off the planet into the sky ?
2006-12-20 23:51:11 · 36 answers · asked by Justin H 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
you wouldnt make it.. that big ball of fire in the middle will melt ya
2006-12-20 23:52:43 · answer #1 · answered by Wow! I have a pig nose! 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
First of all you cannot dig after some distance as you will come across molten rock.You cannot dig in a liquid,is it not?.Presuming you are able to dig and survive the enormous heat ,you will not be able to dig further once you reach the centre of the earth as you will be pulled back thruough the same hole you dug due to gravitation.Assuming you somehow achive this and emerge on the other side of the earth you will not be thrown to the space as the gravitational pull will always be acting on you and it will compensate for any velocity or acceleration you attain while emerging on the other side.
2006-12-21 00:18:43 · answer #2 · answered by Arasan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question!
Once you got past the centre of the Earth, gravity would start acting in the opposite direction, so it would feel like you were digging straight up.
When you reach the opposite side, you could sit down next to the magnificent hole you just dug and have a well-deserved sandwich!
After you've eaten your sandwich and got some energy back, you could try shouting into the hole and seeing if an echo came back, or if you took your mobile phone with you, you could get someone to listen at the other end and then call them on the phone to see if they heard you!
Another cool experiment would be to throw a penny down the hole and see if it got all the way to the other side, or if it got held at the gravitational centre.
Hmm... food for thought!
2006-12-21 00:12:28 · answer #3 · answered by feeltherisingbuzz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Supposing you could and not be burnt, crushed or whatever...you would dig down until the center, then dig up to the other side. Because this is just a thought exercise, and not practical...we might as well say that there is no air resistance to prevent you from hopping back in that hole, and you would speed up all the way to the center, then slow down as you went up the other side...until you would pop out there.
If you had air resistance, you would reach terminal velocity of about 125mph, and never make it out the other side, but would bounce back and forth, losing speed until you ended up in the center.
2006-12-21 00:47:43 · answer #4 · answered by roadlessgraveled 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you ignore about air resistance... As you fall closer and in course of the middle, the pressure of gravity pulling you down will decrease, and there'll be a pressure of gravity pulling you up as further and extra of the Earth's mass will be above you. on the middle, gravity will be pulling you in all guidelines both, yet at this factor you'd be shifting very rapidly as, up until eventually this factor, the internet pressure on you has been in course of the middle. you would bypass the middle, now being pulled decrease back in course of it back, as now extra mass of the Earth is in the back of you extremely of in the front of you. This acceleration will reflect that that you had taking position, and also you would finally end up taking drugs out of the hollow at the different end basically because the gravitational pressure brings you to a end, and then you would fall decrease back with the help of any incorrect way, doing the same element back. you would really be in an orbit of the Earth's middle that replaced into just about a immediately line.
2016-12-01 01:05:47 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The core of the earth is still an unknown although it's beleived to be a zero gravity molten core. So like the other person said, you'll be digging back up once you reach the center!
2006-12-21 00:01:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find out exactly where you would re-appear if you did dig straight through the earth (which you wouldn't anyway because of the enourmous heat and presssure at the centre of the earth which would destroy any digging apparatus you may be using). But anyway, check out this link, its really cool:
http://map.pequenopolis.com/
2006-12-21 00:10:21 · answer #7 · answered by Blib 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can only dig down to the middle of the earth. After that, you'd be digging up and you'd fall back down to the middle.
2006-12-20 23:58:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's impossible to do so. but man has digged the earth straight down up to 7.5 kms. hypothetically a man can dig the hole up to the centre of the earth. after that the gravitational force of earth can not permit the man to go beyond the centre of the earth.
2006-12-21 00:34:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity is centred in the planet, so as you passed the halfway point, you would be digging into the ground above your head to keep going.
2006-12-20 23:52:47 · answer #10 · answered by cuddles_gb 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably, but if you start digging head first you can use your elbows to help balance you when you break through the other side, then when your feet come out last you can just step to the side and you're standing again. Easy.
2006-12-23 00:47:04 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋