Question: if i dug a hole from one side of the earth to the other, and i jumped in. after i have past the core what would happen ?

Asked by thebeast to Cindy, Katelin, Kate, Miranda, Yagiz on 11 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by ambibambi.

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  1. Photo: Miranda WeenMiranda Ween
    answered on 11 Mar 2013:

    I loved that myth when I was a kid, but the reality is, that the core burns up to 5000C, and you wouldnt survive that jump, even if you had the equipment to actually dig a hole through the earth. There is also the issue of what impact drilling so far into the earth would have on the techtonic plates etc.

    If you somehow had some protection from the heat, I am not sure what gravity would do. would you keep falling from momentum right to the other side due to inertia? or would you slow up before you reached the other side and then start going backwards, finally ending up stuck in the middle? That’s a great question to ask a physicist methinks!

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  2. Photo: Kate SkulteKate Skulte
    answered on 15 Mar 2013:

    Miranda’s right you wouldn’t survive. But it would be a pretty cool way to travel if we could!

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  3. Photo: Yagiz "Biohacker" Alp AksoyYagiz "Biohacker" Alp Aksoy
    answered on 18 Mar 2013:

    This question reminded me of a IQ test question. I’m not going to be pessimistic and start listing you why you can’t perform such an experiment, I’ll assume that you got billions of dollars to design a super-tube (resistant against everything ie. heat, pressure, static electricity etc..) which connects the two poles of the earth. On top of that we assume the earth stop revolving on its axis in its orbit round the sun for you to do perform this experiment. You would be able to do a movement what physicists call as “sinusoidal” movement oscillating from one end to the other continuously like a pendulum…

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