If I am standing on the earth's surface am I pulling the earth or am I pushing it down?
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you and a friend go outside and do an experiment. stand on each others heads and you will get your answer. That pressure you feel on your head is the mass of your friend PUSHING down on the earth.That my dear lad is gravity.
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The gravitational pull of the earth pulls the waves up and down while the earth is rotating.
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its about being an earthing? i dunno ty for 2 :D
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They are results of the centrifugal and centripetal forces of the earth crust. This results faulting and folding of the earth's surface.
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Well, I appreciate the fact that you include a waiver for many of the things that would make this task impossible, that helps a lot ;)\n\nIf some explorer were able to dig a hole straight through the center of the earth, the digger would slowly find the apparent effects of gravity decreasing as he or she approaches the center.  On the surface of the earth we feel a good, solid 1G because we have this huge mass effectively "underneath" us but our explorer would slowly be working his way down until only a portion of said mass is "underneath" them... the rest is above them and around them.  By the time they reach the center, they would essentially have a nearly equal amount of mass in all directions, all pulling with pretty much the same amount of force.  Yup, they'd feel like they were floating and would have trouble discerning any "up" or "down" by then.  When they start digging the rest of the way through, they are no longer digging "down", and the further from the center of the earth it will feel more like digging up.  By the time they break through to the other side, they're back to a nice steady 1G.\n\nI hope this helps you, and I hope you don't need the equasions.  We're talking about some serious calculus here and I'm not sure I'm up to that right now ;)\n\nDuckie
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I think you are interested in the earth's mass.  If you wanted to earth's weight ( with respect to the sun) you would need the earth's mass and the sun's gravitation pull.\n\nIt doesn't really make sense to find the earth's weight relative to the earth's gravitation pull.
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Besides the intense heat and pressure, gravity would be the major force acting on you (say if we lived in a world with no air resistance.) As you would get closer to the center of the earth you speed would be increasing, but once you start pulling away from the center you speed would be slowing down due to gravity pulling on you from the opposite direction. At the opposite side of the earth you find yourself to come to a standstill for a brief second until you get pulled back inward toward the center and emerge on the same side of the earth in which you started. You would be stuck in this cycle going from either side of the earth until someone threw you a rope and are able to pull yourself to the surface.
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The earth is round and its gravitational pull draws us to its center.  Upside-down is really just pointing away from the core...from anywhere.
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Because your question is specifically about gravity, I will ignore the temperature of the core. The thing that is important to realize is that gravity is an attractive force. Although it's a bit complicated, we can answer your question by considering gravity an attraction between two atoms.\n\nThe Earth pulls us down as if there were a large gravitational pull coming from the center of the planet, but this is not actually the case. The pull is actually coming from each atom of the Earth independently. It's like if you had two friends who each had a rope attached to your belt buckle. If both are standing in front of you and pull hard, you'll feel a pull that is twice as hard as each alone. If one is standing a bit to the right and the other is standing a bit to the left, and they both pull towards themselves (and they pull just as hard as each other), you will be pulled straight forward.\n\nIn the center of the Earth, it would be like you had lots of friends each with a rope attached to your belt buckle, and they were standing all around you in a circle. If they all pull, they will all cancel each other out -- you won't move at all! You wouldn't even feel it.\n\nSo, to answer your question, in the center of the Earth you would feel pretty much the same as if you were in space -- weightless.
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gravity is stronger, leave it down
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Our atmosphere is considered the upper layer of our planet, meaning that it rotates with the planet.  So due to friction and gravity you will stay in the smae position relative to the ground below you basically rotating with the Earth, unless it is windy.
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Um... I think maybe pull... if something is rotating/turning it is creating it's own little gravity field (I think!) therefore making it easier to pull.  I'm no scientist but this is an educated guess.
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The Earth is not a perfect sphere so you are at different distances from the centre at different places.\nThe density of the Earth is not constant so above dense rocks you appear slightly heavier.\nThe Earth spins so at the equator you are lifted slightly by the Eotovos effect.
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You are unable to stand and loose items around you will move, including heavier items such as appliances.  If you are outside, sight lines will be altered as the ground itself ripples.  There is a deep, subsonic rumbling that vibrates your whole body.
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No, because you are moving with the Earth while you're in it's atmosphere.
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No. All motion is "Forward". Right down to the tiniest Particle. It can be pushed but not pulled. No matter the direction.
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I reckon it's a pull; I've found if I fall down outside a pub, I hit the floor, no matter whether it's in Greenwich, UK, or Australia.\nI have to make an assumption, however, that the Earth is round, which seems reasonable as I've been around it a few times.