What would happen if the world had a hole going straight down to the other side.... and lets just say the core and all that are not going to harm you...
now you walk over to the hole and you jump down... what happens when you reach the other side?
oh yeah, I know you would die before that, but thats not my question...
2007-01-13 00:14:42 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What would happen would depend on whether or not the hole was a vacuum or not - if it is not a vacuum, you would reach maximum velocity as you fell toward the center of the earth, then as you fell passed the center, you would slow down and get pulled back. Inevitably, you would oscillate back and forth until the friction from the air slowed you to a stop in the center of the earth (a very long walk out).
However, if you sucked all the air out first, you wouldn't have any resistance limitting your acceleration and you would speed up towards the center and then slow as you leave the center until you stop moving exactly at the opposite end of the hole (of course, if you don't grab something you will fall back in and continue going back and forth until you did grab something).
A physics student could do the math for you and sort out exactly how long it would take to reach the other side, but I'll leave that to someone else if you need it.
2007-01-13 00:29:30 · answer #1 · answered by Mark M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd think you'd go past the center but stop half way up the other side then go past the center again and eventually stop in the center, like a pendulum.
There is a theory that if we ever invent a black hole in a lab somewhere that it'll do the same thing. It'll go into the ground and go past the center then pendulum back and forth til it stops in the center. And then of course it would start eating away at the earth from the core.
2007-01-13 00:19:37 · answer #2 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question would properly be spoke back if we make here assumptions: (a million) The earth isn't spinning. (2) The earth is of uniform density throughout the time of. (3) the hollow types a diameter of the earth (i.e., it passes in the process the earth's center). the hollow would desire to be in the process the middle; otherwise, the gravity from the earth could pull you into the component to the hollow finally; your action does not exist alongside a today line for a similar reason that a bullet shot today forward falls in direction of the exterior. (4) there is no air resistance. The gravitational rigidity vector will continually element in direction of the middle of the earth alongside the direction of the hollow no remember what direction you're moving in and its value would be proportional on your distance from the earth's center. In symbols, the rigidity would be of the form ok(c - v), the place v is your place vector and c is the placement vector of the earth's center. this could reason you to execute harmonic action--you will oscillate returned and forth. you could attain the different end of the hollow at which element you could temporarily give up and then initiate falling interior the different direction. you could proceed to bypass returned and forth between the ends of the hollow retaining a relentless entire mechanical ability.
2016-10-19 22:20:47 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You dont reach the other side because the force of gravity makes earth feel like a flat surface. Theres no up or down.
Just because it has an up or down on maps doesnt mean the up is north and down is south tho :D
I rather think the colonial forces back at the time prefered to be sitting on top of the other countries so they made north look like that.
2007-01-13 00:22:35 · answer #4 · answered by Antares 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never minding the heat factor, it would still be impossible due to gravity. Your mass would hit a critical level near the core and you could not escape it. If you take gravity out of the equation then it would still be impossible because you and the atmosphere would float off the planet and disolve into the universe.
Aren't you glad God created the earth just as he did?
2007-01-13 00:24:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You couldn't reach the other side. The center of gravity is in the middle of the planet. You would only fall the radius of the Earth, and then you would eventually be suspended in the middle.
To go further than the radius would be defying gravity...
2007-01-13 00:41:38 · answer #6 · answered by RED MIST! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. If you wanted to travel through it you could as long as the plane was reverse pressurised, you wouldn't be able to throw things in / jump down and have them appear at the other side because the friction from the air would slow things down.
2007-01-13 01:16:23 · answer #7 · answered by Bad bus driving wolf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would immediately begin to fall back, continuously oscillating thousands of times until eventually your kinetic energy was depleted and you came to rest at the center of the Earth's gravity.
2007-01-13 00:20:17 · answer #8 · answered by gebobs 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question, but why ask it here?
I am glad you did, I may have missed the answers.
I think you would be crushed. or in a state of equilibrium and just float around, after all the ups and downs
2007-01-13 00:19:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would come out the other side, then drop back down and so forth, with each "bounce" becoming smaller and smaller until you settled at teh center of the earth.
2007-01-13 00:18:28 · answer #10 · answered by Dashes 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋