If i dug a hole through the earth to the other side and jumped in would i fall through to the other side?

Answer 1

No, you would make it 1/2 way and would stay 1/2 way because gravity would pull you to the dense core.

Answer 2

If you ignore air resistance... As you fall closer and closer to the center, the force of gravity pulling you down will lessen, and there will be a force of gravity pulling you up as more and more of the Earth's mass will be above you. At the center, gravity would be pulling you in all directions equally, but at this point you will be moving very quickly as, up until this point, the net force on you has been toward the center. You'd pass the center, now being pulled back toward it again, as now more mass of the Earth is behind you instead of in front of you. This acceleration will mirror that which you had going down, and you'd end up popping up out of the hole at the other end just as the gravitational force brings you to a stop, and then you'd fall back through the other way, doing the same thing again. You'd basically be in an orbit of the Earth's center that was practically a straight line.

Answer 3

Except for the heat, the mass of ground, the side of the hole, according to the "Energy reservation" law, u CAN.
Ur voyage can be divided into 2 parts.
First is the accelerating part, when u jump into the hole. The gravity will accelerates u to the core.
Second is the decelerating part, when u pass the core to the other side of the Earth. With the speed u gained from the first part at the core, u would go "upward" to the surface with the Gravity pulling down u back to the core. Enegy reservation, how much the Gravity gives u, it will takes back, and u would reach the surface at v=v0 (velocity when u started)

Answer 4

Let's imagine that you could survive the heat and pressure and the hole would remain open. If you could dig a hole through the earth and manage to jump into the hole I don't think you would end up on the other side. I would think gravity would keep you falling towards the center of the earth so that eventually you would just remain in the center.

Answer 5

Ignoring all the practical issues preventing you from doing this with the real Earth, you would go through the center, coast up to the other side of the planet, then fall back down through the center and up to the place you began, and then back down through the hole, repeating the process indefinitely.

The force of gravity on you will be strongest when you are near the earth's surface, not at the earth's center. In fact, when you are at the center there will be zero force on you since all the parts of the earth will be pulling equally outward on you and canceling exactly.

It turns out that the force on you will decrease linearly from the surface down to the center, and that makes your motion identical to what it would be if you were tied to a giant spring stretched out from the earth's center.

Answer 6

I've often wondered that, and I believe you would eventually, due to air friction, come to rest at the center of gravity of the earth. Think about it-- it would be similar to a ball bouncing, or a guitar string vibrating. There is a point of equilibrium, once all the energy of the fall is absorbed by the friction. It would be quite a ride, though, if you had a heatproof suit and a supply of oxygen with you, and maybe a helmet, just in case you bumped a wall on the way down or up!

Answer 7

No, because when you reach the center of the earth, the gravity will be too strong and wont let you go any further. You will no longer consider it "falling" anymore since because of the gravitation force, the direction to which you were falling will seem like its "up."

Or if your unlucky, the same will happen, except, you might reach the middle, turn around a few times and forget which direction you came from, since they will both seem like up, depending on which direction you came from. You will get lost and end up going towards the wrong side and youll come out in some crop field in Mongolia.

Answer 8

i did that once. i was digging, and digging for what seemed like days. it got real hot, and wet, i went through 6 shovels, 2 pick axes, and 45 eveready batteries for my flashlight,
finally i saw some light, a small hole appeared, i broke through, only to see a little guy with a mustace, a straw hat ,slanty eyes; speaking in mandarin[ 18th century northern province of shu-manti-structured dialect]of course i had a hard time understanding him as i have not practiced mandarin in a few years, i specialize in the southern provincial 16century shu-mana-docseey- language, any way, they all sound the same yah know, so back to your question, about falling through, why dont you go read some books, or watch discover channel, national geographic, or read an almana,,or something like that, instead of wasting your time, and everyone elses screwing around on a computer all day????? dont you go to school??

Answer 9

no, you would pass through the center, because of your velocity, then fall back down and keep doing that until your velocity can't overcome gravity, finally you would get stuck in the middle because it's the center of gravity, but that's if you could dig a hole through the earth and withstand all the heat, which isn't possible

Answer 10

well you could try, if somehow you did get a hole through, you couldn't get to the other side though, gravity would pull you to the center and you would eventually end up directly in the center of the earth. you would then burn alive because you'd be surrounded by molten iron/nickel

Answer 11

No

You would fall through the center and almost make to the other side before you started falling back again.

You would bounce back and forth until you ultimately settled at the center of the planet.