What if we were to dig to China?
If we were to dig to china or australia, what ever takes your fancy, and if, hypothetically, we didn't melt instantly or cause an anomaly in time or any other complications, if we jumped down the hole would we fall up?
Neo-Anarchists
08-02-2005, 20:47
If we were to dig to china or australia, what ever takes your fancy, and if, hypothetically, we didn't melt instantly or cause an anomaly in time or any other complications, if we jumped down the hole would we fall up?
Gravity would pull you towards the center of the Earth, I would suppose. So you'd go back and forth for a bit, and settle there.
Schoeningia
08-02-2005, 20:48
If we were to dig to china or australia, what ever takes your fancy, and if, hypothetically, we didn't melt instantly or cause an anomaly in time or any other complications, if we jumped down the hole would we fall up?
No, because everything is attracted by the earth core.
Von Witzleben
08-02-2005, 20:50
You would stumble onto a pre historic world were dinosaurs still are around populating the inner earth oceans and lands. And you would probably find the ruins of Atlantis and Lemuria. If you don't get eaten first.
Drunk commies
08-02-2005, 20:50
You'd burn up in the volcano you created long before you reached the core.
No, because everything is attracted by the earth core.
than why aren't we stuck to the ground?
Neo-Anarchists
08-02-2005, 20:51
than why aren't we stuck to the ground?
Because we are...
It's gravity.
Drunk commies
08-02-2005, 20:51
than why aren't we stuck to the ground?
I am. What, You're just floating free?
than why aren't we stuck to the ground?
that didn't come out right.
you know what i mean... i mean our whole bodies... and our faces
Petsburg
08-02-2005, 20:52
than why aren't we stuck to the ground?
Because the force isn't strong enough. It can keep you on earth up to a velocity, but it isn't strong enough to pull you down straight to the ground.
Jayastan
08-02-2005, 20:53
:) Because we are...
It's gravity.
good greif EH OH is a morooooon :p
Drunk commies
08-02-2005, 20:53
that didn't come out right.
you know what i mean... i mean our whole bodies... and our faces
We use metabolic energy to power our muscles which pull against our skeleton and lift us to a vertical position.
:)
good greif EH OH is a morooooon :p
i'm a maroon?
If we were to dig to china or australia, what ever takes your fancy, and if, hypothetically, we didn't melt instantly or cause an anomaly in time or any other complications, if we jumped down the hole would we fall up?
Up is, technically, away from the center of earth...so you could only fall down, you'd just be falling down in a different direction after you passed the middle.
This happened to a guy in a sci-fi I read.........
Antebellum South
08-02-2005, 21:23
Up is, technically, away from the center of earth...so you could only fall down, you'd just be falling down in a different direction after you passed the middle.
This happened to a guy in a sci-fi I read.........
Down is technically movement in the direction of the force (in this instance, gravity). When you first jump into the hole in the ground, you fall down until you get to the middle, at which point the force of gravity reverses and you are flung up.
than why aren't we stuck to the ground?
You can temporarily overpower the force of gravity...
Say you weigh 100 lbs...if you exert over 100 lb. of pressure on the ground you'll go off the ground, but you're still in the gravity well of the planet, so you loose energy until you come back down again...
Evil Arch Conservative
08-02-2005, 21:41
Remember that you have to dig your hole through the exact center of the planet and when you jump down it you must position yourself in the exact center of the tunnel or you'll be dragged along the side as you fell, eventually. That'd be painful.
Janers place
08-02-2005, 21:45
Remember that you have to dig your hole through the exact center of the planet and when you jump down it you must position yourself in the exact center of the tunnel or you'll be dragged along the side as you fell, eventually. That'd be painful.
Agreed. That would hurt
Lacklustre
08-02-2005, 21:48
Well you would fall, and be ripped apart by the massive gravitational force pulling on your body!But say that didnt happpen you would fall then be pulled back to the centre and then come to rest! lol never happen tho :p