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To: Fester Chugabrew

There’s an old saw that teachers would sometimes use, that if there were a tubelike tunnel straight through the Earth, an object which was dropped in would oscillate down one side, up the other, until it finally stopped dead and hovered at the center of the Earth. It’s not true. :^)


31 posted on 09/17/2023 10:21:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So what would happen


34 posted on 09/17/2023 10:59:11 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: SunkenCiv

What would a actually happen I suppose would depend on the mass and shape of whatever object is dropped. Suppose it were a perfect sphere weighing ten pounds, cropped into a hole twice the diameter of the sphere?

My hunch is that it would stop at the center (taking only gravity into account and not the forces caused by heat).


38 posted on 09/17/2023 12:22:41 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Seriously.)
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