Cuz you are digging down towards your feet but near the opposite surface of the earth you would be diiging back to front.
2007-10-24 13:31:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
You have perplexed me. I think I'm having a brain aneurysm.
2007-10-24 13:35:46 · answer #1 · answered by Bob 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You pose a perplexing question. First, assume you could go through the earth's superheated core, what would happen? The practical aspects of the heat I'll ignore. But I'll try to answer the gravity part. Gravity is proportional to the mass. At the surface of the earth, we weigh what we normally weigh. As you did down, the earth's mass would be pulling from all directions, so right at the center, you'd weigh essentially nothing. Digging also implies lifting the dirt from the hole you started and putting it outside the hole. You'd need some mechanism to move material from the center of the earth to the outside of your hole. And then, for awhile, you'd be digging uphill, as if you were in a mine and digging towards the outside.
Thus, to give you a simple answer, I'd say you'd end up coming out head first, assuming you are used to being geotropic (your head is oriented away from the center of the earth.
This is way too hard. Sounds like a bar bet for fifth-graders, if they could get in a bar ... ;)
2007-10-24 13:50:14 · answer #2 · answered by going_for_baroque 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you would find it difficult to dig the hole once you got past the center of the earth because gravity would keep pulling you back down the hole. Also at the center of the earth there would be no gravity so it would be hard to dig. Keep in mind there is no dirt in the center of the earth. It is too hot.
2007-10-24 13:42:22 · answer #3 · answered by collaborator 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
Its a hypothetical question imagining no gravity, zero pressure-temperature variation with depth.
Under these conditions one would come out on the opposite side feet first.
thnks
2007-10-24 15:01:35 · answer #4 · answered by mandira_nk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definite. in case you controlled to get via each and all the molten iron and so on. in the centre, you will possibly emerge precisely the type you think of you will possibly, on your case, ft first. although as you bypass the centre of the Earth, the consequences of gravity might opposite, and additionally you would be hiking out of the hollow on the different area, albeit, ft-first, if it is achieveable for you.
2016-12-15 08:30:12 · answer #5 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your feet wouldn't come out becuase your whole body will be melted by the magma.
2007-10-24 13:35:27 · answer #6 · answered by Purple Wolf 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Just stay attached to your bunji cord and either way will work!!
2007-10-24 13:50:38 · answer #7 · answered by bin there dun that 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋