What If You Dig A Hole Through The Earth?

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I have a question… what if I dug a hole all the way through the Earth and jumped in?  Would I get stuck in the middle? Would I bounce from side to side?  In real life, the deepest anyone has ever dug is .2% of the way to the center. And yet, we know a surprising amount about what's down below our feet...  If you like optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe for more of our show Huge If True!  #shorts #animation #deepest #science #technology #historyfacts

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00:00What would happen if you dug a hole straight through the Earth and then jumped in?

00:03Would you get stuck in the middle? Would you bounce back and forth forever?

00:06Would you go accelerating out the other side?

00:08So what happens is you jump in and you start accelerating down toward the center due to the force of gravity from all of the Earth beneath you.

00:14You're falling faster and faster and faster, but as you get toward the center, there's less mass pulling you down.

00:18So when you reach the center after about 21 minutes, the Earth is gonna be pulling you equally in all directions.

00:24Now if you teleported in there, you'd be stuck forever.

00:27But lucky for you, in this scenario, you're traveling over 11 kilometers per second now, or 25,000 miles an hour.

00:33So you're just going straight on through.

00:35And you'd slow down as you reach the other side, finally coming to a stop.

00:38Unless someone catches you there, you're going right on back.

00:41So you're bouncing back and forth basically forever.

00:43In real life, the deepest anyone has ever dug is a third of the way through the crest in the 1970s,

00:47and we're making a longer video all about it, so subscribe.

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