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If you jumped into a hole through Earth, where would you end?

Question

If you made a hole through the middle of the Earth and you jumped down, where would you end up? Would you fall out the other side?
Adam, Ongar

Answer

** Definitive **
Name: Matt, Heathrow
Qualification: I asked my physics teacher 18 years ago
Answer: You would accelerate towards the centre of the Earth, go past the middle, where you would slow down and be pulled back towards the centre again. You could keep going back and forth until you eventually settled in the middle.

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