Thursday, January 5, 2012

What will happen if someone digs a long hole all the way across earth? then drop something in it.?

Both answers are right, but pumping all the air out is not realistic. In the presence of air, the oscillations will eventually die out and the object will come to rest at the center of the earth. Eventually is a long time, theoretically infinite, but quantization of momentum would bring the motion to an end after a finite time.

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