What if the Earth were Hollow?
Link to keep watching over on Vsauce's channel RIGHT HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYf6av21x5c What if there were a tunnel through the middle of the earth and you jumped in? Also,...
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Flying in a 747 from one side of the earth to the exact opposite side would take about22 hours… and while I know there's a bit of rock in the way, that's really going thelong way round.So what if we did dig a hole all the way through the earth, through the center, and jumpedin?Well, Michael, you probably would't make it very far - that's because of the Corioliseffect (which is why a ball curves weirdly when you toss it while riding a merry go roundand why hurricanes always spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere). At the equator,the earth (and you on it) is rotating eastwards at 1670 km/hr. As you go deeper, the bitsof earth around you are still spinning around once per day, but they don't have as far totravel so they&...
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Flying in a 747 from one side of the earth to the exact opposite side would take about22 hours… and while I know there's a bit of rock in the way, that's really going thelong way round.So what if we did dig a hole all the way through the earth, through the center, and jumpedin?Well, Michael, you probably would't make it very far - that's because of the Corioliseffect (which is why a ball curves weirdly when you toss it while riding a merry go roundand why hurricanes always spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere). At the equator,the earth (and you on it) is rotating eastwards at 1670 km/hr. As you go deeper, the bitsof earth around you are still spinning around once per day, but they don't have as far totravel so they&...
