Digging a jam straight through the Earth is an super democratic thought experiment . It can teach masses about so many property of our planet as well as some reasonably cool physics . However , the summons of turn over such a hole is impossible , and not just because the DoI of our macrocosm sound through molten and liquid layer before foregather the satisfying inner gist . Even on a planet or lunation that is solid throughout , the pressure feel by a mystifying level would be impossible to foreshorten through .
But we are armed with our sophisticated thought technology , and we have apprehend our hole . Our beautiful maw of roughly 12,756 kilometers ( 7,926 miles ) is quick . I am about to make out the ribbon to inaugurate the completion of the body of work when you run past me and jump in shouting “ round shot ! ” A solitary tear runs down my cheek . You have just jumped to your death .
Some like it hot
Our hole through the Earth is a death lying in wait , for many cause . The first affair that would pour down you is the temperature . If you have ever been down a mine , you might have point out that it sustain spicy . The deepest human race have ever drilled is theKola Superdeep Borehole , which reach out just over 12 klick ( 7.5 miles ) or about 0.1 pct of the length of our imaginary hole .
The reasonableness why they cease drilling was the temperature . Just 12 kilometers down , the bottom of the hole reached a temperature of 180 ° C ( 356 ° fluorine ) . The scientist working on the undertaking did not expect such a value , it was much in high spirits than the models had estimated .
If it is any consolation , it wo n’t take long . The journeying through a hole across our planet is estimated to take38 minutes and 11 endorsement . You would be roasted much sooner than you get to the other side .
Under pressure
sadden by your going , I turned on my clip blow machine ( another patented invention in Thought Space ) to before you jumped . I explain what happened in that other timeline , and ask you to weary a heating plant protection case but not to disrupt my ceremonial . As I go to cut the decoration once again , you thrust ahead in and jump . Despite the protection of the suit , I know you are going to die once again .
This prison term , the killer is force per unit area . You will be crushed by the massive increase in pressure . At ocean stratum , you are experiencing about a few tens of km of air above you . In the hole , you ’d get thousands of kilometers . The line will becomeso pressurizedand compact that it will know phase angle transitions , likely becoming a superfluid . And you will become part of that intermixture .
Death rattle
Once again , the time turnabout is put to work . I explain the post , and you direct out that if the pressure gets so high , we belike have evacuated all the melodic line from the airfoil of the planet , shoot down most life forms , include all 8 billion of us on the surface . Cross with you for pointing this out , I go back in time again to the design stage and verify the hole is under vacuum .
You are now slowly lowering yourself into the air lock . And dive , safe from temperature and pressure . And then you give-up the ghost . Ok , this one is on me . The design has the hole going from outside your sign of the zodiac to the other side of the world , and you are bring with you therotational accelerationyou had when you allow , due to the spin of the Earth . But as you move inside the Earth , this makes you freewheel into the walls . At high speed . So you will be banging on the walls , quicker and faster , like a ragdoll . That ’s got to hurt .
We had a good run
The solution to that is have the golf hole through the axis of rotation of the Earth . Having relocate it there , you may now jump safely from the North Pole , arriving in the South Pole 38 minute and 11 second later .
You might still die because no vacuum is perfect , so a bit of air might slow you down in the middle and make you misplace the momentum you need to attach yourself to the paired air lock . This could be desex with a strong push from the first .
Well , that look on whether I have forgiven you for pointing out the dark , apocalyptic nature of my thought experimentation .
