Straight Hole
@Maharadhi2345 (14)
India
January 8, 2007 2:08am CST
If there`s a hole straight through the earth, from the south pole to the north pole, and you jump through it what happens? Would you keep falling forever, or fall back down when you get to the middle, or is it physically impossible?
3 responses
@mvsrao (4365)
• India
8 Jan 07
from Yahoo answers :
You would fall toward the center of the
earth, building up speed all the way.
After shooting through the center,
you'd slowly decelerate until you came
to a stop.
If you neglect air resistance you'd
have enough velocity to rise all the
way to the surface at the opposite
pole. You'd oscillate back and forth
between the two poles forever.
One way to think about this situation
is this: You would be in (an infinitely
eccentric) orbit around the Earth's
center of mass.
source :
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060723180550AAQXkSw
@infobyaj36 (907)
• United States
8 Jan 07
Okay for fun I am answering this. Lets say it is possible to tunnel through the earth and not burn up in the earth's core or anything. Then when you reached the end of the tunnel you would have to crawl out cuz there is gravity on both sides of the world...lol...cute question....Good luck
@sankar1981 (151)
• India
8 Jan 07
Its not me, I will take it as u ;)
U will not be in any of the poles. as there are vaccum areas and other harmful objects inside the earth will make u ~!@#$%^&*() nothing, I believe not even a single piect of u will remain.
