...and you jump through it what would happen? would you keep falling forever, or fall back down when you get to the middle, or would it be physically impossible?
2007-04-11 00:23:52 · 27 answers · asked by bumblecherry 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Let's pretend...
2007-04-11 00:29:47 · update #1
Hypothetically, i mean assuming you don't melt, i guess you'd eventually be stuck around the centre (after falling north and south a few times 'cos of momentum) and would be tending towards the most massive side of the hole 'cos of gravity.
Just guessing
2007-04-11 00:31:31 · answer #1 · answered by armandodski 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well although you'd burn up and disappear before you got the the centre, if it were possible to dig a hole directly through the centre of the earth, the chances are you'd eventually settle in the centre, because you can't fall UP a hole, and once you've passed the half-way point, that's what you'd be doing, but it would be impossible to do and the hole would fill in with molten rock that occupies the earth in the mantle.
2007-04-11 07:30:20 · answer #2 · answered by Dougie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've made myself the same question:
When you jump, you fall in a hole, the gravity accelerates you until a point where the air defines the maximal speed. As you approach the center of earth the gravity decreases but you keep an impulse that will allow you to pass far over the center until a point where the gravity becomes ponderable again, and so on, but you have to consider that the atmospheric pressure at a few thousand miles will be very high you will collapse much before getting the center point.
I wrote this in the hurry, but I hope you'll catch my idea.
2007-04-11 07:35:40 · answer #3 · answered by QQ dri lu 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Assuming the earth's core was not really really hot & full of molten iron (which it is, but if we assume it's not), gravity would keep pulling you to the centre of the earth but you would be slowed down by wind resistance which would prevent you from travelling faster than your terminal velocity (which the maximum velocity that sky divers reach when they dive).
You would be travelling around 200 km/hour for most of the journey down, which is about the maximum speed sky divers can fall at. It would be like a huge sky dive, and because of the size of the earth, it would take over one day to reach the centre. You would then overshoot the centre, but you wouldn't have enough momentum to get far towards the other side of the world and after a while you would slow down and slowly fall back to the centre.
2007-04-11 07:42:32 · answer #4 · answered by Ben O 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No its impossible, such a hole would never be able to be created because of the heat.
Temperature would increace with depth and you would burn long before you would get to the middle.
Theoreticaly as gravity acts towrds the centre of the planet you would probably get stuck at the core.
Nice question.. this will be on my mind for a while now
2007-04-11 07:33:32 · answer #5 · answered by wiccan140684 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity pulls you to the centre of the earth. Therefore, when you get to the centre you will stop falling and will not rise.
This being said, the earth's mantle has a temperature ranging from 500 degrees to 900 degrees. You will not survive.
2007-04-11 11:27:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay lets just assume that it was possible to drill a whole through the centre of the Earth... well as you started falling youd start getting hotter, your clothes would burn off around you as your skin started to boil, your internal organs would start popping, and as you continue your descent (assuming your super human!) you'd feel a pulling force all around, your body would be quite literally ripping itself apart... ooops there goes a limp... and another one. By the time you've made it to the center you would have totally disintegrated!
Hope that helps!
2007-04-11 07:35:51 · answer #7 · answered by dark_massiah 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If there was such a hole, it would stop the Earth's magnetic core from rotating. That would destroy Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from deadly radiation from the sun. If that field died, Earth would become a dead world like Mars. Also, if you fell through, you'd keep falling out into space, where there's no oxygen and you'd die horribly. Have a nice day! :-).
2007-04-11 07:27:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Surely you ould fall to the middle then gravity would squash you, but then with any luck if you can arry on falling, maybe you will stretch out again by the time you get to the other side
2007-04-15 05:11:11 · answer #9 · answered by kelly f 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, you'd stop at the center, but you'd be dead long before you got there.
But what I want to know is that if you went straight through and you were trailing a REALLY long piece of string or rope, could the planet be made into an enormous yo-yo?
2007-04-11 07:27:20 · answer #10 · answered by steveshurtleff 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋