HOW MUCH TIME IT WILL TAKE TO FALL THROUGH THE EARTH? 😲

in #life6 years ago

Hello Steemians, As you read the title you might be wondering how much time it will take to travel from pole to pole. before we start we have to take some assumptions.

let start with simplification, that earth has a perfect symmetric sphere and has the same density everywhere and the hole has no air in it because otherwise, the air resistance will cause you to reach terminal velocity which implies to eventually plateau. So putting these assumptions away we can proceed.

Let’s suppose you’re standing next to the super dangerous hole and fall in, so your starting speed is zero meter per second . And like you’d normally experience if you fell into any hole, you’re going to accelerate down. But your acceleration depends on how far you are inside the earth.

See, when you are at the top of the hole, the entire Earth is below you, so you’ll experience the same gravitational acceleration as you normally would, 9.8 meters per second squared and you’ll start to speed up as you fall. But then, things change. Now, you are inside the hole, so some of the Earth is above you and some of it is below you. And this means that gravitational force pulling you up and down as well at the same time. So your acceleration is going to change. fortunately, we have a different trick that we can use to figure out this easily. Let’s pretend that you are inside a spherical shell with a uniform density. In here, no matter where you are, the gravitational forces from every part of that shell will cancel out.

To actually prove this, you’d need to know a super cool thing called calculus and add up the forces from every single tiny portion of the shell. But to keep this blog from getting too math-heavy, just trust me that this works. Now, as you are falling toward the center, the parts further from the center than you form a spherical shell. And we just said that all of the gravitational forces from that shell will cancel out. So, this means that we can simply pretend that that part of the Earth isn’t there, and, instead, you’re standing on the surface of a smaller Earth.

So, as you fall, the Earth basically gets smaller and smaller and your downward acceleration decreases. And once you reach the center, and you won’t experience any acceleration at all. But remember: you are still falling down pretty quickly, so you’ll zoom right past the center towards the other side. And from here, instead of the Earth shrinking, it’s getting larger and larger as you fall down, since you are now moving away from the Earth’s center.

And with all that Earth above you, the acceleration will flip directions and will now be pointing up. But since you are still traveling down, this means your velocity will start to slow, eventually reaching zero when you get to the other side of the hole. And if you don’t jump out, you’ll fall right back in and oscillate back and forth in the hole ... forever. I don’t know about you, but I definitely have better things to do with my time. But assuming you only travel through the hole once, using some physics, we’ll find that this whole trip will take you around 42 minutes. Not too shabby! How would you want to travel across the world? Leave me a comment to let me know. What did you think of that incredible experience? As always, Don’t forget to keep on thinking!😄

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okay, sir, I understand however I am also a beginner as i started posting few weeks ago


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Oh yea, I have upvoted you and followed you. Many blessings!

love your approach the way you explain things 🤗

It's all because of your love and support, which always inspires me to think.

Hey @sitanshugupta, I love your post and different ideas like your question. What do you think about the flat earth theory though?

All the best to you,

Phi23

Thanks for your appreciation, There are many theories based on the flat surface you can read on google but I don't actually believe in it.

The theories about flat earth is too complicated.

Flat Earthers for me still fail to explain sunrise/sunset and timezones 🤣

It's an interesting an pretty fascinating one - crazy at first glance, but obviously bulky enough to generate some super-involved discussions. See The Question No Flat Earther Can Answer! and, from the other side, see What is Finding the Curve? by @findingthecurve.

The way you explain this scientific fact is really nice it's like science with enjoyment.

@ravi2011 thanks for the appreciation


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