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Yeah.
You would float.If you drilled a tunnel through the earth, made it into a tube and jumped in.
What happens when you get to the middle.
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Nope, i wondered the same until i did the math
Youd be within a fraction of a percent from escape velocity, ergo you'd slingshot right passed the center
If the whole was not ideal, hence theoretically uncollapseable, then the question is moot
Further assuming no air friction, then the law of conservation applies and you would reach 0 velocity at the surface om the other side
If you drilled a tunnel through the earth, made it into a tube and jumped in.
What happens when you get to the middle.
I assume when you get to the center of the earth you would be crushed by the mass of the planet, probably long before that.
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Even before that, you would hit the wall of the wall since you moving faster than rotation of earth
actually you won't
this was solved long ago by Galileo
it's the same reason that if you jump straight up and high, while on the western equatorial shore of the ocean, you don't land in the water
or if you drop a cannon ball from the Eiffel tower it still lands at the foot of the tower and not due west
why?
Because you have the same rotational momentum as the earth
again all claims are being made in an ideal world where air resistance and current are negligible or ideally non-existent
I surmise that were it not for air flow, we would be so much more keenly aware of how much :
a. we are truly floating in space
b. gravity has us stuck on the ground like a magnet
c. The universe is truly mechanical, digital and ordered; the state of the universe is such that even chaos creates order through statistical interactions and the a priori matrix of the forces. Such is the nature of nature
.d. how weird and magical all the fundamental forces are, gravity especially
This awareness is truly an epiphany of existential proportions, gripping, moving and freeing of the heart and soul.
This is the same experience Newton, Galileo, Copernicus and, especially Johannes Kepler, I am sure, must have had. Once you see and ponder the universe in their eyes as they saw it for the first time in history (at least recorded history), it is mind blowing. For the first time man could see past the superficial caprice of nature and steal, from a realm once meant solely for the mind of Gods, a little bit of order for himself
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actually you won't
this was solved long ago by Galileo
it's the same reason that if you jump straight up and high, while on the western equatorial shore of the ocean, you don't land in the water
or if you drop a cannon ball from the Eiffel tower it still lands at the foot of the tower and not due west
why?
Because you have the same rotational momentum as the earth
again all claims are being made in an ideal world where air resistance and current are negligible or ideally non-existent
I surmise that were it not for air flow, we would be so much more keenly aware of how much :
a. we are truly floating in space
b. gravity has us stuck on the ground like a magnet
c. The universe is truly mechanical, digital and ordered; the state of the universe is such that even chaos creates order through statistical interactions and the a priori matrix of the forces. Such is the nature of nature
d. how weird and magical all the fundamental forces are, gravity especially
This awareness is truly an epiphany of existential proportions, gripping, moving and freeing of the heart and soul.
This is the same experience Newton, Galileo, Copernicus and, especially Johannes Kepler, I am sure must have had. Once you see and ponder the universe in their eyes as they saw it for the first time in history (at least recorded history), it is mind blowing. For the first time man could see past the superficial caprice of nature and steal, from a realm once meant solely for the mind of Gods, a little bit of order for himself
oh I see what you were trying to say
but no
this would only happen if you arrived at the center with zero velocity
You're right. Taking in to account velocity, and cancelling out the Coriolis Effect, which would keep you from arriving to the center of earth in the first place, you'd keep shooting from one end of the tunnel to the other end. If earth was hollow, or you arrived at the center with zero velocity, you'd float.
