If you dig down enough can you reach hell?

Question

i mean they say hell is burried beneith the earth! but yet the earth is one big circle and if you keep going down you should head into china!!!! Or maybe is it in between!!!??? not sure this is something i been wanting to know for a long time! just like heaven! they say its up above the sky but yet thats space! if you travel far enough can u reach heaven??? for will space jus continue to go on???

Answer 1

LOL. Heaven and hell don't exist. They are man made religious idea :)

Answer 2

You have to be careful of what 'they' say.

As far back as humans have realised that they have an existence, and that existence des appear to come to an end, they have had difficulty imagining it ending for good.

Somehow, we have the feeling that when we die, we will somehow know that we are dead. That some part of our consciousness will continue.

For that to happen, then there must be a place for this consciousness to be, once the body no longer exists.


Older civilisations had Hades (or some equivalent), a place where every consciousness went after life (whether a good life of bad).

Civilisations that had many deities that needed to be served thought that this was a place from which you would continue to serve the gods.

The Ancient Greeks thought that hades was a place where you would continue whatever tasks you were doing on Earth, except that the tasks would never conclude. In this description, the use of hades as a place for the dead people is rather recent (2500 years ago?). However, the idea already existed in the Hebrew bible, with the sheol: a place where all dead went after death. This was simply a place to await resurrection.

Roman culture was greatly influenced by Greek mythology. Existing Latin and Etruscan gods would keep their names, but take on the caracteristics of the Greek deities (e.g., Jupiter became the same as Zeus).

When Christians inherited the concept (from Hebrew relitgion and from Roman culture), they made it into a place where the dead souls would await the last Judgement.

Hades (the abode of the dead) had already been established (by the Greeks) as being in various locations, including the Elysian Fields (a nice place) and Tartarus (a gloomy place below hades, itself below Earth).

Around 400 BC, Greek mythology had "good" people go to the Elysian Fields, and "bad" people go to Tartarus, after death and some kind of judgement by the gods.

Therefore, the Christians placed the paradise (the reward for the justs) upward from hades (an Elysian Field, or Reed Field, must be above the underground) and hell below (where Tartarus already was).

With time, Paradise moved upward to Heaven, while Hell stayed "down there" (wherever that is). The "modern" visions of Hell are based on Medieval fears: fire, live burials, confined spaces, torments...

Jesus himself may have used fire as an analogy for the torments (in Luke 12 and in the 2nd letter to the Thessalonians).

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As you dig, if you did deep enough, will will get to experience higher and higher temperatures until you get to the crust-mantle interface (no one -- and nothing -- has gone that far deep yet, except for some fiction movies).

Temperature at the upper-mantle is between 500 and 1000 C (1000 F to 2000F). Hot enough to remind people of the medieval descriptions of hell.

By the time you get to the bottom of the inner-mantle, approaching the outer core, temperatures would likely reach 4000 C (7000 F). Not as hot as the surface of the Sun (6000 C), but by that time, you may not notice the difference.

Somewhere in the mantle, you'd be swimming through melted rock. It is difficult to tell exactly at what depth, because the pressure is getting sufficiently high to keep rock solid at higher temperature than what we are familiar with, at the surface.

Earth's core is very dense. The outer core is liquid metal (very, very hot). It is possible tha the pressure on the inner core is high enough to keep it solid despite the extreme temperature. The inner core, despite being hotter, could be one huge solid crystal, because of the pressure.

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If you do make it through successfully, you will end up at a place with the reverse latitude (same value, different sign: for example, if you start from 47 North, you'll end up at 47 South) and with the oposite longitude (180 minus your longitude and different name).

In over 99% of places where you would start from a position on land, the antipodal position is under water.

Think about it before buying a shovel.

Answer 3

First, it would be practically impossible to dig to the other side of the earth. I don't know what you learned in school, but the earth is made of several layers of rocks, and in the center is a giant mass of boiling hot magma (you know what comes out of volcanos). I don;t think we have equipment that could handle that. Plus, you would cause some major instability whereever you dug. It just wouldn't work.

Heaven and Hell are philosophical ideas (like was stated before). They are something that people believe in, but don't necessarily exist. I am scientifically minded, and there is no physical proof of Heaven or Hell existing. You can not get there while alive, and certainly not by digging.

Answer 4

Realize that the English Bible uses the word "hell" to translate more than one Hebrew and more than one Greek word. Both languages had a word that would probably be better translated as "grave". You will find that the references to "hell" being located within the depth of the earth as the word "grave".

The fiery place referred to in the New Testament is never once called "hell" or translated with that word. Rather in the book of Revelation it says that "hell" will be tossed into the lake of fire. So they appear to be two very different places.

So if you are referring to the "grave", you can find that by digging (Suggest you start in a cemetary to make it easier). If you are referring to the "lake of fire", no. It is not once listed as being located in the ground, but is rather pictured as being located off of heaven.

Answer 5

Heaven and hell is an inventon of early religion. Meant to serve as a metaphore for right track/ wrong track. It was a way to introduce 'rules' for societal living and to keep people in check via 'punishment' and 'reward' system. so, since we all get on the wrong track, then you don't have to dig, you are already there... same with heaven.

Answer 6

That may have been how certain religious people viewed the concepts of "hell" and "heaven" in the 1500s, but these days I don't know anybody who believes in these metaphysical ideas AND actually believes one is down in the earth's mantle and another is up in the earth's atmosphere. Then again, I don't live in Arkansas.

Answer 7

You need to go back to the class you missed regarding the center of the earth. You'd find it impossible to dig all the way through to the other side because the center of our plantet is made up of extremely hot and deadly gases. Is Hell in with it, who really know's?

Answer 8

in case you maintain digging you will finally end up hitting bedrock. yet purely FYI for you, the main guy has ever dug is approx. seven miles into the earth. there is not any equipment stable adequate to pass any greater advantageous. So except you're Superman i might somewhat does no longer complication to plenty.

Answer 9

Hahaha, Reese, you're in for a surprise... hell isn't at the "core" of the earth, and Heaven isn't just "above" us. It's a place of a different dimension. If you add "purgatory", others say that it's already now present here on earth.

To set things straight, hell isn't just below and Heaven isn't just above. They are places that only the spirit in us can go...and I hope we all "go" to heaven.

Answer 10

I do believe hell is in the center of the earth, and it is impossible to reach hell by going through the earth. Do you remember the Utah miner's story that was all over the news? They tried and tried to get those poor guys out and they couldn't do it. It would have taken them weeks to make a little bit of progress. You're talking about drilling to the core of the earth. Not only would the rock be too hard to drill through, and not only would it take an inconceivable amount of time to do it, but if you did manage to drill anywhere near the core you would be instantly killed by the heat inside.

Answer 11

Actually, Hell surfaces on Earth in a number of places... Probably the closest to you would be any DMV office.