Thread: Bottomless pit
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Old 12-26-2007, 12:23 AM   #1
equazcion
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Bottomless pit

Let's say there were such a thing as a bottomless pit, a hole that went from one point on Earth clear through its core to the other side. Let's say you fell into it. What would happen to your body?

Would you:

A) slingshot past the core and emerge on the other side, breaking Earth's gravitational field and floating off into space?

b) go past the core only at first, then rebound back in the opposite direction, go past the core again, and keep rebounding back, like a plucked guitar string until you finally stopped at the very center?

c) or would the gravity at the core be so strong that you would simply stop once you got there, or be torn apart, or something?

d) or would something entirely different happen?

This is all assuming that your body didn't burn up due to the extreme heat and that the molten rock wasn't pouring all over the place to stop you from going anywhere. It's just a hypothetical that pops into my head from time to time so I thought I'd try asking someone. Let me know what you think.

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