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.
