Ignore that fact that the center of the earth is filled with hot magma. In principle, what would occur?
2007-04-09 07:55:31 · 8 answers · asked by ProteonX 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
you would fall picking up momentum until the middle, then you would stop as it the middle were a ton of bricks. the center of the earth is the center of gravity - it's why you would fall in the first place. however, you would not live through this because you would be pulled into a tight ball and you would then become just matter in the center of the earth at the center of gravity...think being able to stick yourself into a tiny blender and being mashed up.
this is all subjective though. interesting question!
2007-04-09 08:46:44 · answer #1 · answered by Karen 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'll also ignore the air in the hole and assume a vacuum. You would fall all the way to the center, pass the center really fast and rise up to the surface on the other side and stop there, just barely reaching the surface as you did. If you didn't grab on to something, then you would fall back again, and oscillate back and forth forever. If you include air friction, you would never make it more than a few miles past center, because air drag would slow you FAR below the speed you would need to rise up the other side, and your oscillations would eventually damp out leaving you at the center of the Earth.
2007-04-09 08:32:10 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing that exciting. To keep the hole open it needs to be filled with a fluid of some description to prohibit the hole collapsing in on itself. I suspect it would be like jumping into a rather large swimming pool!
2007-04-09 08:30:31 · answer #3 · answered by A_Geologist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd fall to the center, then oscillate back and forth until you settled to a stop right in the middle of the earth. You would be weightless.
2007-04-09 08:43:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes .. Your body would oscilllate like a YO YO but there is one more effect.. You would start spinning clock wise and then anti clockwise once you cross the equator and back again in reverse due to coriolis forces. That should make you really sick....
2007-04-09 09:52:43 · answer #5 · answered by Deepak A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there were no air resistance you'd get to the other side of world, get back to where you started and bounce around forever.
2007-04-09 07:58:19 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would be suspended in the center, because of gravity.
2007-04-09 08:17:23 · answer #7 · answered by spychic19 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would continuosly fall since gravity would switch at a certain point, besides that you would burn up because of the enormus amount of heat.
2007-04-09 08:12:22 · answer #8 · answered by lananoki2mahone 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋