if a tunnel was dug throo the earths axis and you fell in.would you float in the middle orcome out theothersid

Answer 1

good question....I think you come out on the other side, which would be lower Russia or possibly in the Himilayas for me.

Answer 2

Ignoring the facts we have all noticed that you cant tunnel through liquid and on the way through you would be killed by either;

1. Hitting the sides
2. Heat
3. Pressure
4. Morlocks

after entering the tunnel, gravity would accelerate you towards the centre of the earth, but the rate of acceleration would decrease the closer you got to the centre. On reaching the centre of the earth, the velocity you had accumulated on the way there would carry you through and gravity would slow you down by exactly the same ammount as it had accelerated you by. You would come to a stop exactly at the exit - assuming entrance and exit are both at the same height above see level.

If you were also to consider air friction, you would reach terminal velocity (where air friction cancels out gravitational acceleration) soon after dropping into the tunel. Your terminal velocity would decrease as you approached the centre of the earth and the force of gravity decreaces, You would come to a stop exactly a the centre of the earth where gravity would be zero.

Answer 3

You would accelerate, almost reaching the other side but you would slow down after passing the core and come to a stop at the other side and start down again, you would swing like this for years until the momentum was so weak that you would eventually stop at the core. Of course, you'd have to deactivate and cool the core first to allow you to do this without vaporising which would destroy everything on the surface as you'd have cancelled out the magnetic field.

Answer 4

Whoa there boss...

Haven't you heard that below the Earth's crust lies a mass of molten metal which is huge beyond your wildest dreams. Once
you drilled way down you would encounter this molten lava mass, and your drill apparatus would be melted. Your hole would fill with the molten lava and no further drilling would be possible. You would never get your boring project through to the center of the Earth, much less drill on through to the other side.

Answer 5

Well, the pressure would kill you long before you got to the center, so, for you the point would be moot. But, assuming that the tunnel was not so large as to significantly alter the gravitational pull of the Earth, your crushed remains would end up in the core of the world.

Answer 6

You would accelerate towards the core/center and if you could survive passing through the core you should have enough velocity (speed) to keep going to the surface on the other side (assuming you have no friction).

If there is friction, you wouldn't get all the way through; you would get close, then fall back to the core, velocity would carry you a slightly smaller distance towards were you fell in, then repeat until you end up stuck in the middle. Hope you enjoy the lake of fire.

Answer 7

Other than the fact that you would get killed by the heat and pressure, you would probably float in the middle, because gravity does not pull you down; it pulls you toward the center of the object (the earth).

Answer 8

You would bounce up and down like a bungee cord and eventually float at the center of the earth.

Answer 9

If it was possible you would stop half way, and float between the two entrances on either side of the earth.

Answer 10

You will be stuck there because of the magnetic field and you may probably cook on the way down.

Answer 11

the middle of the earth is lava so technically you would frazzle, rather than float or fall through. but if you could fall through it would mean cheap holidays