Thursday, August 28, 2014

newtonian mechanics - If it was possible to dig a hole that went from one side of the Earth to the other...


...And you jumped in.


What would happen when you got to the middle of the Earth? Would you gradually slow down, until you got to the middle and once you were in middle would every direction feel like it was up?




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