i thought Earth was flat??

rdotsharkey wrote i thought Earth was flat??

Wait...it's not?!

Also, if you dig a WHOLE, you might have a problem. Because a whole is y'know, one complete thing while a HOLE is something you dig...maybe then you can try it. I doubt you'll be back to tell the story of what happens, though.

USSR wrote

Simplified wrote

Lavish wrote It's literally impossible.

Even if you were to have something dig a hole to the other side of the earth, and the heat wasn't an issue, you would be falling so damn long you would probably just die from that.

lol I laughed at this you'd die just from falling for a long time?

The faster you fall the more kinetic energy/air friction forms around the shape that is falling(In this case a human) You would also be fighting Drag(Also known as Air Friction), drag can actually heat stuff up when whatever object passes through it. Air is dense enough to apply force to an object and push it back when it's going at a fast speed, so the drag would make your body begin to heat up where you will more and likely die from overheating. Another possibility is lack of oxygen, your falling so fast I don't know how you would be able to breathe with all that air pushing back at you. One thing though is you would create a Sonic-Boom falling that fast(If you're not already dead) just like Felix Baumgartner he created a Sonic-Boom from his free fall but it would be nowhere as close if your were to create while falling through the whole earth.

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That's the video where Felix creates the Sonic-Boom( I had to put it in a link because embedding isn't allowed for that video)

EDIT: Thank you to Euler for telling me I used "Air Friction" a lot in my post so I changed it to drag, I knew it was called drag but I thought air friction would be better.

This is kind of wrong, unless you're assuming there is almost negligible or minimal air resistance in the hole. Felix was able to hit such speeds due to the density of air at such high altitudes; by the time he reached the dense air, of our understanding, his velocity was so great and the acceleration was only beginning to decrease. If you were to fall down from the crust directly towards the center of the earth you would hit terminal velocity at around 200mph at the most regarding the density of air at such levels and the shape of our bodies (assuming air density is maintained through the earth). Your body would not heat up at such speeds to the extent of which you said and there will be no further acceleration beyond this.

To a previous comment, objects from space keep accelerating as there is no resistance in space (f=ma) and so upon entering our atmosphere the initial velocity is higher and so there acceleration begins to decrease at a greater initial velocity; This is how meteorites and other objects in space reach such speeds. The air resistance apposing a meteorites movement would be much greater than its weight and so they do decelerate just they already such great magnitudes of speed in the first place.

If you fell towards the center of earth you would reach terminal velocity fairly quickly, at the point of which you reach the core you would still keep going as you will have a maintained velocity however the gravitational force would be reversed. You would begin to fall back down again kind of like a bouncing ball. At the point on which you're at the center of the earth the gravitational force will be 0 and so you would feel weightless as you would in space.

There is a guy on Youtube who makes scientific videos in a short amount of time. He pretty much explained in theory what would happen?

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Vsauce answered this not so long ago:
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Saying that you would fall while digging, because of gravity, is like saying that Canada will fall on the U.S. one day...Because of gravity.

There wouldn't be very much pressure from the gravity, Just x2 what we feel now. It would be easy to escape from it.

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Usually saying "hypothetically" means it's possible, but unlikely to happen. This is neither. As many have said the heat is too much... Plus the pressures... Also I'm not sure how digging a hole would go... How possibly would you dig this...

Also I'm pretty sure there was a movie about this... I forget what it was called but they traveled in a transporter type thing to "work" everyday through the center of the earth. Good movie

if there was a perfect scenario, without heat and all that then you would be falling at such a speed at when the gravity splits you would land perfectly on the other side by a 1m high.