So if you were able to drill a hole

[Khoifather]

from the North Pole to the South Pole and drop something in from the North Pole, what do you think it'll do?

 

[FoRNiK8ToR]

from the North Pole to the South Pole and drop something in from the North Pole, what do you think it'll do?

My guess is that it would get stuck somewhere in the middle (assuming it doesn't disintegrate as it's falling or anything like that). From the surface, you can model the earth's gravity as a point mass at the center of earth, so whatever you drop will be pulled towards the center. All of the latitude graviational forces will cancel out, and there will just be longitudinal gravitational forces acting on it (assuming the earth had an evenly distributed weight distribution). I think it might oscillate about the center point for a bit though (due to built up force from falling) before finally settling. So I guess you could model it as a spring/mass (F = k*x) system kind of, where it will eventually oscilate back to an equilibrium position (center of the earth). That's my guess.

Of course this is only because you dropped it in from the North Pole. If you dropped it in from the South Pole it would instantly teleport into a parallel universe.

 

[redrims]

Pretty much impossible. The earths surface floats on lava. If anyone managed to reach the core, I think everyone would be dead...lol

BTW, pretty cool sig (thumb)

 

[Stealth5]

BTW, pretty cool sig (thumb)

yeah is that gran turismo?

anyway, i agree, if it wasnt going to melt from the molten core and s***, lets say earth is all dirt, no molten s***, it will just fall, go past the middle, get pulled back toward where it fell from, bounce back and forth for a while, the stop in the middle

 

[GreenPic]

OMG!!11

any1 evar s33 th4t m0vee The CORE!!!one!1

 

[kiwee]

let's say you were ACTUALLY able to drill this hole you speak of directly through the earth's core, IMO, the object that you dropped in there would end up going right to the middle of the earth's core.
due to the gravitational pull towards the earth's centre of itself, the object would be directly drawn toward the middle (as someone previously stated)

 

[ELEmental59437]

Except for the fact that the eath isnt 100% dirt/solid.. The inner parts of the earth would disinegrate anything you could throw at it. Its like expecting a space shuttle to be able to land on the sun.

Also, when drilling this "hole".. whats stopping the liquid magma from immediatly melting whatever blade you used to drill, or filling the hole you drilled.

 

[GreenPic]

LAYZOR DRILLS!!!! like in THE CORE!!

 

[Stealth5]

Except for the fact that the eath isnt 100% dirt/solid.. The inner parts of the earth would disinegrate anything you could throw at it. Its like expecting a space shuttle to be able to land on the sun.

Also, when drilling this "hole".. whats stopping the liquid magma from immediatly melting whatever blade you used to drill, or filling the hole you drilled.

hey man, its just a theoretical situation

 

[anarchistchiken]

Jeremy, your new sig looks exscra-pimp.

It would turn into a giant bowl of Chili and come back to me all warm and yummy.

 

[Stealth5]

Jeremy, your new sig looks exscra-pimp.

thanks man, i think that pic is the best one ive ever taken of my car since my camera sucks ass. and look how fresh those tires were! i dont even think my springs had settled yet in that pic

 

[Crock]

I would drop a turd in that hole and see if some south pole scientist gets smacked in the face with it because he looked too closely into my freshly dug hole through the earth.

 

[Stealth5]

I would drop a turd in that hole and see if some south pole scientist gets smacked in the face with it because he looked too closely into my freshly dug hole through the earth.

rofls